AP Art History Terms Review

What is the name of the Egyption symbol of life shown below?

Many early Christian churches, (like Santa Sabina shown below,) were converted from this Roman court building

In Church architecture what is a nave?

How is this example of Kufic calligraphy read

Below is an area in Athens built onto a hill. What is the name of this kind of hilltop construction?

What is the term for human like charactertistics found on a non-human object like the stele shown below

What are Casta Paintings?

The tenebrism used here by carvaggio is an exaggerated version of highly developed light and dark values known as

Iconoclasm is connected to the belief that...?

This biombo was influenced by _________.

What type of photography was used for The Artists Studio, shown below

A passageway around the apse of church

The Athenian Agora is:

What scene is depicted on the frieze in the "Great altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon"?

The Renaissance period in Italy that include the 1500s (or 16th century) is known as

What is encanchado?

Which of the following characteristics is typical of an hypostyle hall?

Below is the floorplan for the Church of Saint Foy. What is the name for this style of floor plan?

Early Christian underground passageways and burial areas, such as those of Perscilla shown here, were known as

What are fibulae?

The technique where thin bands of metal separate colored areas is known as

How is this church nave covered?

Horror Vacui is:

A triple projecting, grooved member of a Doric frieze that alternates with metopes.

Raphael's use of orthogonal lines that converge on a vanishing point in School of Athens is known as

Hierarchy of scale:

The relief carving above a church door, like The Last Judgement above the Church of Saint-Foy shown below, is known as

Encaustic, like that used for Virgin and Child Between Saints Theodore and George, is

Creating depth by making distant objects less detailed, hazier and lighter value (Hunters in the Snow Bruegel the Elder)

illuminated manuscript