Module 1
The sense of "wholeness" of a composition.
What is Unity?
A work of art created using small pieces of material, such as rocks, metals, or colored glass, arranged to create a picture or pattern.
What is Mosaic?
Art that deliberately attempts to elicit a specific emotional response from the viewer.
What is Expressionism?
The destruction of religious icons.
What is Iconoclasm?
The meaning of "rebirth," a term used to describe a period in European history.
What is Renaissance?
The three primary colors are...
What are red, yellow, and blue?
A system of writing developed by the Sumerians.
What is Cuneiform?
The section above the architrave and under the pediment in Doric order architecture.
What is Frieze?
The country that Gothic architecture emerged from in the mid‐twelfth century.
What is France?
A belief in the high potential of human nature and human accomplishments, as opposed to a belief man's achievements are only possible through God.
What is Humanism?
The secondary colors are...
What are orange, purple, and green?
The place where the largest collection of petroglyphs is in...
What is the Upper Paleolithic period?
After 1500 BCE the Late Helladic people known as _________ became the dominant culture throughout the Aegean region.
What is Mycenaeans?
A building plan in the shape of a cross, with a long nave and short transepts.
What is the Latin-cross plan?
The meaning of 'light-dark' in Italian; the modeling of forms through almost imperceptible gradations of light and dark
What is Chiaroscuro?
Lines that are suggested in an artwork, such as the direction a figure in the artwork is looking
What are Implied lines?
The type of monument Stonehenge is considered to be.
What is Megalithic monument?
Is created using paints, popular in the Archaic period into the Classical period, and is light colors against a dark background.
What is red figure?
The oldest surviving Islamic sanctuary.
What is the Dome of Rock?
The location of Raphael's frescos of the School of Athens.
What are the papal apartments at the Vatican?
Dependent on an individual.
What is Subjective?
______ is the largest of the Great Pyramids at Giza.
The reason of why the Greek Parthenon was built.
The semicircular area directly over the door in a portal
What is Tympanum?
The type of paint Flemish artists used.
What are oil paints?