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Formal Elements
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This acronym stands for "Before Common Era."
What is BCE?
100
A visual scale where relative size indicates relative importance.
What is hierarchic, or the hierarchic scale?
100
Term meaning "city of the dead."
What is "necropolis?"
100
A tall Ancient Greek or Roman jar with two handles and a narrow neck.
What is an amphora?
100
The diagram artists use to understand color relationships.
What is the color wheel?
200
These are two time periods known for cave art and petroglyphs.
What are the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods?
200
This is an instrument used to write cuneiform.
What is a stylus?
200
Now residing in Berlin, this sculpture was found in the studio of sculptor Tutmose.
What is the "Bust of Nefertiti?"
200
One of the most famous paintings that survived the palace at Knossos shows two women and a man engaging in this dangerous ritual.
What is bull leaping?
200
This is the term for a color's innate property.
What is "hue?"
300
The most famous female figurine from the Upper Paleolithic period, this carved statuette was once called "Venus."
What is the "Woman from Willendorf?"
300
This is an upright stone slab often put in public spaces as a grave marker or memorial.
What is a stele?
300
A flat stone often used for grinding and preparing makeup.
What is a palette?
300
This well preserved statue from Aegina attempts to extract an arrow from his chest while supporting himself on a bent leg and elbow.
What is the "Dying Warrior?"
300
This term describes freeform shapes; it is sometimes called "organic."
What is "biomorphic?"
400
A term that comes from the Greek words meaning "large" and "stone."
What is "megalith" or "megalithic architecture?"
400
The capital site of Ancient Persia, built c. 515 BCE.
What is Persepolis?
400
This Ancient Egyptian King shifted representational focus from geometrical or rectilinear to curvlinear forms.
Who is Akhenaten or Amenhotep IV?
400
These are the three Greek architectural orders.
What are Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian?
400
The successful outcome of this formal element is aided by either symmetrical or asymmetrical balance.
What is composition?
500
This is a circle of stones or posts, often surrounded by a ditch with built-up embankments.
What is a henge?
500
After being stolen after the fall of Baghdad, this ancient marble sculpture was returned to the Iraq National Museum in 2003 in good condition.
What is the "Warka (or Uruk) Head?"
500
A kind of painting where pigments are mixed with hot wax and burned onto the surface.
What is encaustic?
500
A mosaic is assembled with these pieces, small cubes of colored stone or marble.
What are tesserae?
500
In one-point linear perspective, this is the point at which oblique lines converge.
What is the vanishing point?