Academic Decathlon 2017-2018 Art Part 1

What type of analysis do Art Historians use to analyze works of art?

What is the difference between watercolor paint and gouache?

What was the School of Athens

Who were two "High Renaissance Artists"

What was a ziggurat?

What is another name for the New Stone Age?

Value is the actual name of a color and hue is the lightness or darkness of the color.

Formal Analysis implies that the artist used visual contents to get the meaning across.

What does the term "Baroque" mean

What are some visual components in a work of art?

What was the Reformation?

Who was the ancient Roman historian who wrote Natural History?

The positive space in an artwork is the space that is surrounding the main focal points.

Contextual analysis involves looking outside the work of art in order to determine the meaning.

The use of mellow colors and blurred outline allows for better blending between colors.

Who was Giorgio Vasari?

Where and around what time was Stonehenge built?

What was an arch-shaped structure used as a ceiling or a support for a roof?

A set of rules put forth by King Louis XIV that set a standard for works of art.

What is a flying buttress?

What material did the Persians use to build their palace in Persepolis?

What is an arch?

Which style was common in Roman and Greek columns?

What is a barrel vault?

What is another name for the Old Stone Age?

What was the pose contrapposto invented for?

When were the oldest cave paintings said to have been created?

The Hierarchical Scale is used by Historians to determine whether a person was royalty or not.

Why was concrete an important contribution to architecture?

What is negative space?

What style was an extension of the Baroque period?

He advocated for more rigorous study of stylistic development when related to historic context?

What is a ribbed vault?

What is another name for the Middle Stone Age?