Before the 14th century, most paintings in India were done on these.
What are walls and / or palm leaves?
100
Throughout the Middle Ages & across Europe, these were the principal centers for art and learning.
What are monasteries?
100
Referred to as "luminous sermons, preached with pictures rather than words".
What are church stained glass windows?
100
French for "rebirth".
What is "Renaissance".
100
The time of Raphael, Bramate, Michelangelo and daVinci.
What is the High Renaissance?
200
One of the two principle ways Chinese paintings were done. This one was not made to be displayed all at once.
What are hand-scrolls?
200
The place where early monks and nuns worked on books.
What is a scriptorium? Plural, scriptoria.
200
In its own day, the Gothic style was called this.
What is "modern art" or the "French style"?
200
Most formal apprenticeships were closed to them so medieval and Renaissance women artists learned their trade from these sources.
What are convents and / or family members.
200
DaVinci's famous Last Supper began to do this during his lifetime.
What is deteriorate?
300
One of the two principle ways Chinese paintings were done. This way displayed all of the work at one time.
What are hanging-scrolls?
300
"Roman-like".
What is Romanesque?
300
Located in France, it is considered the first Gothic building.
What is the Abbey Church of St. Denis?
300
An artist making one of these kinds of prints first draws a design (or image) on a smooth block of fine-grained wood then cuts away the areas around the drawn lines.
What are woodcut or woodblock prints?
300
In Michelangelo's Pieta the Virgin Mary holding this.
What is the dead Jesus?
400
Considered the international language of East Asia (much as Latin was in medieval Europe).
What is written Chinese?
400
A weaving where the threads form patterns or pictures.
What is a tapestry?
400
Even now (in the 21st century), the basic procedure for making this has changed little since the Middle Ages.
What is stained glass?
400
In Italian palazzo meant this or any large house.
What is palace?
400
Derived from the Italian word maniera, this anticlassical movement gave priority to artificiality, grace and elegance over ordered balance and lifelike references that were the hallmark of High Renaissance art.
What was Mannerism?
500
During the Edo period in Japan, there was wide spread patronage of the visual arts and even "tradespeople" could purchase the less costly artworks done in this method.
What are woodblock prints?
500
In the 11th and 12th centuries monks and nuns still worked often in this capacity.
What are artists?
500
A wall painting technique in which color is applied, with water-based paints, on wet plaster.
What is fresco?
500
This system makes pictorial spaces seem almost like extensions of the viewers real space.
What is linear (or mathematical) perspective?
500
This most famous of Reformation leaders never supported the destruction of religious art.