Ancient Period
These types of markings are carvings, engravings, or scratches made directly into the rock surface, rather than painted on with pigment.
What are petroglyphs?
This art technique involves creating an image by arranging small pieces of colored stone or glass.
What is a mosaic?
This was the dominant religion represented in much of Medieval European art.
What is Christianity?
This artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
This art movement often showed dreams, strange creatures, and unusual combinations of objects.
What is Surrealism?
This Neolithic monument in England consists of massive standing stones arranged in a circular formation. Its construction took place in stages over thousands of years, beginning around 3000 BCE.
What is Stonehenge?
This painting technique uses pigment mixed with egg yolk as a binder.
What is tempera?
This period of European history came after the fall of the Roman Empire and before the Renaissance.
What are the Middle Ages?
This technique uses gradual transitions between light and dark to create a soft, smoky appearance.
What is sfumato?
This art style is known for its curving lines, flowers, plants, and nature-inspired designs. It was used primarily in the architecture, furniture, and posters of New York and Chicago.
What is Art Nouveau
This type of prehistoric female figurine often has exaggerated body features and may have been connected to fertility.
What is a Venus Figurine?
The most decorative type of Greek column, with acanthus leaves adorning the capital.
What is Corinthian?
This architectural style is known for pointed arches, flying buttresses, and large stained-glass windows.
What is gothic architecture?
Renaissance paintings are most recognizable due to their composition in this perspective
What is linear perspective?
This Spanish artist’s 1907 painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon helped pave the way for Cubism, challenging traditional ideas of perspective and representation.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
This structure was built by ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia, and considered to be the prototype for many larger pyramids.
What is a Ziggarat?
This civilization and its people were the first to perfect the engineering of semicircular arches and domes.
Who are the Romans?
Medieval artists often showed important figures larger than others to communicate their social or religious importance.
What is hierarchical scale?
This Dutch artist painted The Night Watch and became famous for his dramatic use of light and shadow.
Who is Rembrandt?
This French artist, known for his bold, non-naturalistic colors, painted Woman with a Hat, which shocked viewers at the 1905 Salon d’Automne.
Who is Henry Matisse?
This ancient Egyptian artistic convention showed the head and legs in profile while the torso and shoulders faced forward, allowing artists to depict the human body from multiple viewpoints.
What is a composite pose?
This architectural structure in ancient Rome was built under Emperor Hadrian and is famous for its massive unreinforced concrete dome, which has a large opening called an oculus.
What is the Pantheon?
In an illuminated manuscript, these decorative borders could contain plants, animals, mythical creatures, or scenes unrelated to the main religious text.
What are marginalia?
This Baroque painting by Caravaggio depicts Christ calling Matthew to become one of his disciples
What is The Calling of Saint Matthew?
This was written on the side of Marcel Duchamp's most famous 1917 artwork, challenged traditional ideas of what could be considered art.