Chiaroscuro
strong contrast between light and dark (i.e. Caravaggio).
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin
Cezanne, Van Gogh, Matisse.
Impressionist
Which one of these pieces is a relief sculpture?
Hagia Sophia
Flying buttress
A stone arch and its pier that support a roof from a pillar outside the building. Flying buttresses also stabilize a building and protect it from wind sheer.
Mary Cassatt
Apollonius, Polykleitos, Kallimachos.
Helenistic
Lamassu figures originated from this culture.
Assyrian
The Sullivan Center (Carson, Pirie, Scott Building) represents what style?
Art Nouveau
Impasto
A thick and very visible application of paint on a painting surface
Rembrandt
Dominique Ingres, Goya, Delacroix.
Romantic
Describe the pietà as a subject.
subject in Christian art depicting the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus.
Name three characteristics of Romanesque architecture.
Round arches, symmetrical plans, groin vaults, barrel vaults, sturdy piers, arcades, massive quality.
Encaustic
An ancient method of painting using colored waxes that are burned into a wooden surface.
Hokusai
Fragonard, Watteau, Lebrun
Rococo
Describe what a Daguerrotype is.
early photographic process emplyoying iodine-sensitized silver plate and mercury vapor invented by Louis Daguerre.
Dome of the Rock
Coffer
In architecture, a sunken panel in a ceiling (i.e. ceiling of Pantheon).
Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Pontormo.
Mannerism
Meret Oppenheim, Marcel Duchamp and René Magritte are all considered _______ artists.
Surrealist
The Trajan Forum was revolutionary for its expansive use of this material.
Concrete