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| A convention in which part of a figure is shown in profile and another part is shown frontally; it is a descriptive, as opposed to a strictly optical, method of representation. |
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| An arrangement of huge stones in a circle; also called a henge. |
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| A coating applied to acanvas or some other surface to prepare that surface for painting; also background. |
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| A painted or carved base line on which figures appear to stand in paintings and reliefs. |
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| Images, materials, or objects as found in the everyday environment that are appropriated as works of art. |
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| To cut into a surface with a sharp instrument; also, a method of decoration, espeecially on metal and pottery. |
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| A picture of a natural setting without narrative content. |
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| A horizontal beam used to span an opening. |
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| The substance or agency in which an artist works; also, in painting, the vehicle(usually liquid) that carries pigment. |
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| Literally, "great stone"; a large, roughly hewn stone used in the construction of monumental prehistoric structures. |
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| A large single block or piece of stone used in megalithic structures. Also, a column that is all in one piece (not composed of drums). |
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| A wall painting; a fresco is a type of mural medium and technique. |
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| Elements in a work of art arranged in such a manner as to tell a story. |
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| From the Greek neo-new and lithose-stone; New Stone Age c. 9000-2000 BC. |
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| From the Greek paleo-old and lithos- stone; Old Stone Age, during which human kind produced the first art objects beginning ca. 30,000BC. |
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| In sculpture, figures projecting from a background of which they are part. The degree of relief is designated high, low (bas), and sunken (hollow). |
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| A form of sandstone used for the megaliths at Stonehenge. |
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| A three stone construction; two vertical monoliths topped with lintel. |
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