Name the culture
definitions
religious architecture
Hot spot
elements
100
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Olmec
100
Verism
extreme or strict naturalism in art or literature. In Roman art it principally occurred in portraiture of politicians, whose imperfections of the face were exacerbated in order to highlight their old age and gravitas.
100
Christianity
100
Post and lintel
100
Curved, wavy, diagonal, thick, or thin
Line
200
Roman
200
Mihrab
A niche in the wall of each mosque at the point nearest to Mecca, the congregation faces the mihrab to pray.
200
Islam
200
Ambulatory
200
Can be two or three dimensional, geometric or organic
Shape
300
Japanese
300
Stele
standing stone slab used in the ancient world primarily as a grave marker but also for dedication, commemoration, and demarcation.
300
Buddhism
300
ruling
300
includes foreground, middle ground and background. Refers to the distances around, between, and within objects
Space
400
Assyrian
400
Parietal
umbrella term which refers to several types of creations including finger markings left on soft surfaces, bas-relief sculptures, engraved figures and symbols, and paintings onto a rock surface
400
Judaism
400
representation of Buddha
400
the surface quality of a work, either real or implied
texture
500
Minoan
500
Corbeled arch
A corbel arch is formed by a series of overlapping stones (in which each stone juts out farther than the one below). Compared with a true arch, a corbel arch is less stable, and less efficient at converting tensile force into compressive force.
500
Shintoism
500
Kiva
500
the range of lightness to darkness
value