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Art History Vocab

Test your art history vocabulary by doing this crossword puzzle! All definitions are from "Gardner's Art Through the Ages" by Fred S. Kleiner and Christin J. Mamiya

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3.A style, primarily of interior design, that appeared in France around 1700. This styles interiors were extensively decorated and included elegant furniture, sculptures, ornamental mirrors, tapestries, reliefs, and wall paintings.
5.Painting on lime plaster, either dry or wet.The pigments are mixed with water and become chemically bounded to the freshly laid plaster.
6.A simple and massive gateway, with sloping walls.
8.Formed in relief by beating a metal plate from the back, leaving the impression on the face.
10.A Late Gothic style of architecture superseding the Rayonnant style and named for the flamelike appearance of its pointed bar tracery.
12.In Buddhist and Hindu iconography, a stylized ans symbolic hand gesture.
13.The lead strips in stained-glass windows that join separate pieces of colored glass.
19.A distinctive feature of mosque architecture, a tower from which the faithful are called to worship.
20.In ancient Greece, usually the site of the city's most important temple.
23.The direction (toward Mecca) Muslims face when praying
24.A series or row of columns, usually spanned by lintels.
26.A 20th-century American movement that portrayed American rural life in a clearly readable, realist style. Major artist from this period are Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton.
27.Dutch, "the style." An early 20th-century art movement founded by Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg, whose members promoted utopian ideals and developed a simplified geometric style.
28.An early-20th-century art movement led by Henri Matisse, for whom color became the formal element most responsible for pictorial coherence and primary conveyor of meaning.
31.A style of art and architecture that emerged in the later 18th century. Part of a general revival of interest in classical cultures. This period was characterized by the utilization of themes and styles from ancient Greece and Rome.
32.The continuous molding framing an arch. In Romanesque or Gothic architecture, one of the series of concentric bands framing the tympanum.
34.Southern style of Hindu temple.
35.Originally a derogatory term named after the Goths, used to describe the history, culture, and art of western Europe in the 12th to 14th centuries.
36.This is a type of order of a column and is characterized by capitals with funnel-shaped echinuses and a frieze of triglyphs and metopes.
37.A painted or sculpted representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the body of dead Christ.
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1.A painting technique in which a pigment is mixed with wax and applied to the surface while hot.
2.A sunken panel, often ornamental, in a vault or ceiling. EX: Pantheon.
4.The public square of an ancient Roman city.
7.A vertical, freestanding masonry support.
9.A panel, painted or sculpted, situated above and behind an altar.
11.In sculpture, figures projecting from a background of which they are part of. The artist cuts the design into the surface so that the highest projecting parts of the image are no higher than the surface itself
12.A semicircular niche set into the qibla wall of an mosque.
14.Greek, "city of the dead"; a large burial are or cemetery.
15.The portion of a basilica parallel to the nave. It is separated from the nave by a row of columns or piers.
16.In Christian art, the wounds that Christ received at his crucifixion that miraculously appeared on the body of a saint.
17.The uppermost member of a column, serving as a transition from the shaft to the lintel. In classical architecture, the form of the capital varies with the order.
18.An expert in assigning artworks to one one artist rather than another.
21.The central area of an ancient Roman basilica or of a church, demarcated from aisles by piers or columns.
22.A school of architecture in Germany in the 1920s under the aegis of Walter Gropius, who emphasized the unity of art, architecture, and design. This school trained students in a wide range of both arts and crafts, and was eventually by the National Socialists in 1933.
25.In Roman basilicas and medieval churches, the windows that form the nave's uppermost level below the timber ceiling or vaults.
28.Usually, the front of a building.
29.A two-paneled painting or altarpiece.
30.A smokelike haziness that subtly softens outlines in painting; particularly applied to the painting of Leonardo and Correggio
32.A recess, usually semicircular, in the wall of a Roman basilica or at the east end of a church.
33.A page of a manuscript or book.
35.The edge formed by the intersection of two vaults.

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