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What is the name of the term used to describe the study of principles and appreciation of beauty?

Aesthetics

What is the name given to a tall, two-handled jar with a narrow neck, that has the patron goddess of Athens illustrated on it?

Amphora

What is the term used when an artist takes existing objects or images with little or no change to them or in one's own artwork?

Appropriation

What is the term given to a tool, weapon, or ornament created by humans that usually has historical significance?

Artifact

What is the term used for a row of columns within a building often supporting a porch, left open to the sky with a pool in the center to catch rainwater?

Atrium

What is the term given to works of art that are innovative, experimental, different from the norm or on the cutting edge?

Avent-garde

What is the term used for a Roman military encampment?

Castrum

Who was the artist who spent a lifetime seeking to express the extremes of human emotion and experience in his work based on history, literature, current events, and his own travels?

Eugene Delacriox

This art movement of the 20th Century focused on conveying emotion and mental responses rather than being representational, what is it?

Expressionism

Following a bus accident that left her with many injuries, this artist painted self-ortraits of herself in pain and cringe-worthy images. Who was she?

Frida kahlo

What is gold pounded into extremely thin sheets, applied to a painting's surface called?

Gold leaf

When depicting art, many royal sculptures in Egypt were created to be bigger than life and more extravagant than usual. What is this term called?

Idealization

What's the name of the resin that has been used for centuries, that's from trees found in Continental Asia?

Lacquer

During the Romanesque and Gothic Periods of Europe,wood was more predominant than paint. What were the two types of wood used for sculpture?

Lindenwood, limewood

What is the term used for images or designs created on a wall or floor made up of small pieces of stone, tile, or glass?

Mosaics

Name four of the materials that were readily available during the earliest drawings, paintings, vessels, and sculptures?

Mud, clay, minerals, straw, twigs, and plants

What is the most basic method of design in which two upright beams support a horizontal one to create a rectangular opening?

Post-and -lintel

What is another early construction technique that required materials such as moist dirt, sand or gravel compressed into a temporary frame called?

Rammed Earth

Eugene Delacroix had a particular style or genre in which he painted with ecstacy and passion. What was this term called?

Romanticism

What is the name of a painting that is composed of an arrangement of inanimate objects by humans or nature?

Still-life

Who was the artist who spent much of his life in solitude and painted more than 30 self-portraits between the years of 1886 and 1889?

Vincent van gogh

What's the name of the term that means, pleasure in the beauty and appreciation of art?

aesthetics

What is the term for a sacrificial or offertory table?

altar

What is the curved or pointed piece of architecture spanning an opening and supporting the weight above a structure?

arches

Christ's body is surrounded by a circle of light. What is this illumination called?

aureole or mandorla

What substance is used to compress carbon powder?

binder

What early material was used as pages in a bound book that was called vellum?

calfskin

What is the name of the term or set of principles and norms that represented the royals, as it relates to sculpture?

canon

What is the term used for clay that is hardened by a great amount of heat?

ceramic

What is the medium that is produced from wood or another organic material, that's been burned in the absence of oxygen?

charcoal

Who painted the controversial piece called " The Holy Virgin Mary"?

chris ofili

What is the term called when a photograph has been manipulated by a digital effect that has been repeatedly duplicated?

cloning

The earliest textual works were inscribed on stone tablets. After this, there was manuscript with bound pages. What was this binding called?

codex

In the classical period in Greece, sculptures captured the potential for naturalistic movement and weight-shift of knees and hips, in their work. What is this term called?

contrapposto

When two megaliths support another horizontal stone, a Dolmen is formed. What is another name for Dolman?

cromlech

What is the name of a god or goddess and a divinely related creature?

deity

What are the four aspects of a formal analysis?

description, analysis, interpretation, and evaluation

What's the spherical-shaped ceiling or roof of a building called?

dome

Two-dimensional art consists of three categories, what are they?

drawing, painting, and printmaking

It was discovered that Ivory was a great carving substance. Name three animals that were harvested for their Ivory.

elephants, walruses, mammoths

What is the name of a painting that depicts everyday life?

genre painting

What's the name of the circular, radiant image that levitates just above Christ's head?

halo

What's the term for an Hawaiian temple composed of a Polynesian raised Earthern or stone temple?

heiau

What is a collection of objects called?

hoard

What is the term given to an underground prehistoric burial site?

hypogeum

What's the terminology called of a broader study and interpretation of subject matter and pictorial themes in a work of art?

iconography

The period during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in western Europe and the United States when industry quickly developed due to the invention of steam- powered engines and the growth of factories. Fundamental changes occurred in agriculture, textile and metal manufacture, transportation, economic and policies, and had a major impact on how people lived.

industrial revolution

What substance is usually black carbon or graphite and suspended in liquid with a binder?

ink

What's the name of a figure of speech in which one thing symbolically stands for another, perhaps an unrelated thing or idea?

metaphor

What is the name of a painting that's done on a wall?

mural

What is the central part of a church?

nave

The kingdom of Benin, located in the southern region of modern Nigeria and home to the Edo people, was ruled by a succession of divine kings. What is the term that means divine king?

obas

What is the art medium that is produced similarly to charcoal but is pigmented or colored?

pastel

What is the name of a leader with the power to interact with the spirits and the physical world?

shaman

In 1913, English critic Clive Bell said that art is the quality that brings us aesthetic pleasure. What is the name of the term that brings us aesthetic pleasure?

significant form

What three metals are used when creating art with Metal Point?

silver, gold, and pewter

What's the term used for a church tower?

steeple

What is the name of the site in Wiltshire, England that's made up of huge stones that measure 13 ft. high and 7 ft. wide?

stonehenge

What's the name of an image or sign that is understand by a group, to stand for something?

symbol

What is the correct terminology of a specific figural or naturalistic image that holds shared meaning within a group?

symbolism

During the Upper Paleolithic Period, many cave paintings depicted animals like horses, bulls,bison, and deer. Many scholars hypothesized the paintings epressed the hope of giving thanks for a successful hunt. What is the name given to this hypothesis?

sympathetic

What is another name for Four-dimensional art?

time-based art


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