ALL Art Flashcards

The Chauvet Cave paintings used these two materials

These two main colors appear in the Chauvet Cave paintings

GREEK temple columns have these two main styles

Pliny the Elder wrote this early art encyclopedia

This style of architecture uses pointed aches and flying buttresses

The contrast between light and dark is known as___?

This scale depicts figures' size proportional to their status

This part of a column is called what?

This artist developed linear vanishing point perspective

This type of sculpture uses counter-balancing

This Italian artist wrote "The Lives of the Artists"

This major Greek temple dates from the Middle Classical Period

This part of a column is called what?

This Roman art historian wrote "Natural History"

This painting by Raphael Sanzio depicts Greek thinkers

This part of a column is called what?

Michelangelo spent four years on this ceiling's fresco

This art museum holds Hammurabi's Code

This type of representation displays each part of a figure's body as clearly as possible

What type of construction is this known as?

Stonehenge stands in this area of England

Name this art piece?

Which of the following is a Hellenistic sculpture that exemplified contemporary beauty

Art style characterized by a long neck and twisted torso

This artist pioneered sfumato

This exterior bracing enables larger windows and higher ceilings

These two major French caves contain early cave paintings

All of the following animals are depicted in the Chauvet Cave paintings EXCEPT

This Minoan legend is half-man and half-bull

Name this art piece

What technique is characterized by mellow colors and hazy or blurred outlines

What type of paints were introduced during the Renaissance?

Hammurabi ruled this city-state

A famous ancient Egyptian portrait depicts this queen

What is the material used to make up the base of Hammurabi's Code?

This bronzo sculpture is Donatello's most famous