Art History Vocabulary
FALL SEMESTER
Week 1 (9/11) - Prehistoric art
cromlech dolmen
neolithic
paleolithic
architecture
Week 2 (9/18) - Ancient Near East
stele
register
hierarchical scale
hieratic
relief sculpture
Week 3 (9/25) - Ancient Near East
limestone
bas-relief
Week 4 (10/2)- Ancient Near East
ziggurat
King Djoser (or Zoser)
mastaba tomb
Week 5 (10/13) - Ancient India & China
stupa
Week 6 (10/23) - Ancient Egypt: Old Kingdom
register
canon
palette (Egyptian)
old kingdom (Egyptian)
form follows function"
Week 7 (10/30) - Ancient Egypt: New Kingdom
pylon
hypostyle
peristyle
Hatshepsut
new kindgom (Egyptian)
obelisk
colonnade
Week 8 (11/6) - Ancient Egypt: New Kingdom / Amarna art
amarna style of art
hieroglyphs
Nefertiti
Akehnaten
sunken relief
Week 9 (11/13) - Aegean Art
Aegean
fresco
helladic
megaron
Week 10 (11/20) - Aegean Art
cycladic
repousse'
corbelled vault/corbeling
cyclopean walls
Heinrich Schliemann
Week 11 (12/4) - Ancient Greece
kouros
kore
archaic period
geometric period
Andokides painter
red figure
black figure
Week 12 (12/11) - Ancient Greek Architecture
ionic
doric
corinthian
pediment
entablature
pediment
architrave
frieze
cornice
parthenon
acropolis
volute
Week 13 (12/11) - Ancient Greece
classical period
contrapposto
mosaic
caryatid
Week 14 (12/18) - Ancient Greece
Hellenism /Hellenistic period
WINTER SEMESTER
Week 1 (1/29) - Etruscan Art
Etruscan
Chimera
Terracotta
archaic smile
contemporary
sarcophagus
Week 2 (2/5) - Roman Art
Bust
Verisitic
Superrealism
Gravitas
Propaganda
Still life
Persepective
Intuitive perspective
Atmospheric perspective
Single-point linear perspective
Week 3 (2/12) - Roman art
Pax Romana
Week 4 (2/19) - Roman architecture
groin vault
concrete
voussoirs
barrel / tunnel vault
dome
portico
rotunda
coffer
oculus
peristyle garden
compluvium
impluvium
Week 5 (2/26) - Roman art
tetrarch
Constantine
Equestrian
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