Module 1
Red, yellow, blue
what is Primary colors
Cave paintings
what is the earliest known form of painting
Water based paint against wet plaster
What is fresco
Images representing sacred figures or events
What is icons
Renaissance
What is rebirth (time between 15th and 16th century)
Texture
what is surface quality of an object or the feel
writing tool that is pointed on one end and triangle on the other
what is Stylus
popular form of vase painting in Greece between 700 and 550 BCE
What is black figured pottery
Portal
what is a large entry entryway
Humanism
What is the belief in high potential of human nature and accomplishments
Subjective
what is dependent on an individual
system of writing created by Sumerians
what is Cuneiform
Octavian (Augustus)
what is the fist roman emperor after the murder of Julias Caesar
Iconoclasm
Baroque
what is 17th century European art
Background of the picture or area behind the objects
what is Negative space
Early for of rock carving
Petroglyphs
column with no embellishment at the base and only a simple capital
Doric column
semi circular area directly over the door in a portal
what is tympanum
use of dark setting and strong shadows
Tenebrism
Guidelines the artist might use to create certain effects in the artwork
what is principles of design
Hyksos
what is invaders of Egypt who where part of Egypt's transition into the new kingdom
triangular upper portion of wall and below the roof
What is Pediment
semicircular niche in a wall
what is apse
Light-dark in Italian
what is Chiaroscuro