ALL Art Flashcards

This scale depicts figures' size proportional to their status

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

This artist pioneered sfumato

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

These two main colors appear in the Chauvet Cave paintings

This Minoan legend is half-man and half-bull

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

This part of a column is called what?

Pliny the Elder wrote this early art encyclopedia

This Italian artist wrote "The Lives of the Artists"

This type of sculpture uses counter-balancing

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"

Hammurabi ruled this city-state

This painting by Raphael Sanzio depicts Greek thinkers

This style of architecture uses pointed aches and flying buttresses

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

Art style characterized by a long neck and twisted torso

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

Michelangelo spent four years on this ceiling's fresco

The Chauvet Cave paintings used these two materials

Name this art piece?

GREEK temple columns have these two main styles

This exterior bracing enables larger windows and higher ceilings

This bronzo sculpture is Donatello's most famous

This art museum holds Hammurabi's Code

The contrast between light and dark is known as___?

Name this art piece

This artist developed linear vanishing point perspective

What type of paints were introduced during the Renaissance?

A famous ancient Egyptian portrait depicts this queen

These two major French caves contain early cave paintings

This part of a column is called what?

Stonehenge stands in this area of England

What type of construction is this known as?