Armature

Without symmetry

(a design or composition wih identical or nearly identical form on opposite sides of a dividing line or central axis)

Creates the illusion of distance by reducing color saturation, value contrast, and detail in order to imply the hazy effect of atmosphere between the viewer and distant objects. 

Perspective=a system of creating an illusion f depth or three-dimentional space on a two-dimentional surface.

Barrel Vault

Relief Sculpture= scuplture in whick three-dimenstional forms project from the flat background of which they are a part. the degree of projection can vary and is described by the terms high relief and low relief

Buttress

1.A humorous or satirical drawing

2. A drawing completed as a fill scale working drawing, usually for a fresco painting, mural, or tapestry

Clay hardened into a relativley permanent material by firing. A practitioner of the cermanic arts is a ceramist.

A self- contained or explicitly limited form; having a resolved balance of tensions, a sense of calm completeness implying a totality within itself

A row of columns usually spanned or connected by beams (lintels)

An art form in which the originating idea and the processing by which it is presented take precedence over a tangible product. Conceptual works are sometimes produced in visible form, but they often exist only as descriptions of mental concepts or ideas. This trend developed in th late 1960s, partially as a way to avoid the commercialization of art.

Colors whose relative visual temperatures make them seem cool. Cool colors generally include green, blue-green, blue, blue-violet and violet. Warmnes or coolness is relative to adjacent hues

The most influential style of the twentieth century, developed in Paris by Picasso and Braque, begining in 1907. the early mature phase of the style called analytical Cubism, lasted from 1909 to 1911. Based on the simultaneous presentation of multiple views, disintegration, geometric reconstruction of subject in flattened, ambiguous pictorial space; figure and ground merge into one interwoven surface of shifting planes. Color limited to neutral. By 1912, more decrative phase called callage Cubism began;

In printmaking, the total number of prints made and approved by the artist usually numbered consecutively. Also, a limited number of multiple originals of a single design in any medium.

Art of people who have had no formal, academic training but whose works are part of an established tradition of style and craftsmanship.

A representation of forms on a two-dimentional surfaceby shortening the length in such a way that the long axis appears to project toward or recede away from the viewer.

Gouache

The symbolic meanins of subjects and signs used to convey ideas important to particular cultures or religions, and the conventions governing the use of such forms.

Any printmaking technique in which lines and areas to be inked and transfered to paper are recessed below the surface of the printing place.

Ex. Etching, drypoint, engraving, and aquatint

Kiln

Greek for "maiden." An archaic Greek statue of a standing clothes young woman

Greek for "youth." An archaic Greek statue of a standing young nude male.

The actual color as distinguished from the apparent color of objects and surfaces; true color, without shadows or reflections.

Aka Object color

Monochromatic

An art medium in which small pieces of colored glass, stone, or ceramic tile called tessera are embedded in the background material such as plaster or mortar.

A type of work

The tall central dpace of a church or cathedral, usually flanked by side aisles

The two dimensional picture surface

Scale

The hues orange, violet and green, which may be produced in slightly dulled form by mixing two primary colors

Symbol

A design (or composition) with identical or nearly identical form on opposite sides of a dividing line or central axis

AKA balance

French for "fool the eye" A 2-d representation that is so naturalistic that it looks actual or real (or 3-d)

The lightness or darkness of tones or colors. White is the lightest value, black is the darkest. The value halfway between these extremes is called middle gray

AKA tone

Achromatic

Having no color, without identifiable hue. Most blacks, whites, grays, and browns are archromatic

A semicircular end to an asile in a basilic or a Christian church. In christian churches an apse is usually placed at the eastern end of the central aisle.

--Smaller subsidiary apses may be found around the choir or even at the ends of transepts.

Allegory

When literal content of a work strands for an abstract idea suggesing parallel, deeper, and a symbolic sense.

Aqueduct

Channel built to bring water to cities or towns often supported by a series of arches.

Ashlar Masonry

Smooth square or rectangular stones layed with mortar in horizontal courses

1.Consists of uniform, rectangular blocks of stone with parallel faces, commonly used in Greek and Roman buildings.

2. Stone Masonry cut into rectangles and laid to create a wall

Book of Hours

Burin

Engraving tool with metal plates or carve stone with a knob-like wooden handle and metal shaft that had a sharpely beveled point (has one size bu several possible shapes) that cuts V-shaped grooves into a metal.

 A religious building for worship, specifically of a denomination with an episcopal hierarchy, such as the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Orthodox and some Lutheran churches, which serves as a bishop's seat, and thus as the central church of a diocese.

A Christian church.

Choir

Part of a church or cathedral where services are sung. Often separted from nave by a screen.

The area of the church between a transept and main apse.

1.Tapered horizontal boards used as siding, thickest on their bottom edge; each overlaps the one below.

2.Overlapping horizontal boards that cover the timber-framed wall of a house.

CHECK NOTES!

1.In Roman sculpture

2. A compositional technique that shows earlier and later parts of a story together in one scene, as if they had all happened at the same time.

Contour lines

Drapery

Dressed

Fixative

Fluting

Gum Arabic

In original place, not removed.

Remaining at the site or in the subsurface.

Keystone

A script writen before it has been published.

Any document that is written by hand, as opposed to being printed or reproduced in some other way

A picture of a night scene

An instrumental composition, originating from the Romantic period, usually meant to be performed in the evening.

Patina

1. A surface film found on coins (usually brown or green) caused by oxidation over a long period of time.

2.Coloration on any surface either unintened and produced by age or intended and produced by simulation or stimulation

Pediment

Wide, low-pitched gable surmounting the facade of a building in the ancient Greecian style.

In classical architecture. particularly above certain church doors and on large standing wall monuments, a wide but low triangular structure to decorate the top ‘Gable’ Where the top section of the triangular gable is missing this is called a broken ______.

Pendentives

Concave, triangular piece of masonry; four of these form the transition from a square area to the circular base of a covering dome. They support the dome

*They carry the enourmous weight from the circular of the upperdome downward to a square form on supporting walls

Sarcophaqus

A stone container that usually housed the coffin and mummy. The surface was often inscribed with texts to assist the deceased in the journey through the underworld. Tapers to a smaller at the bottom.

Section drawing

A projecting space that is perpendicular to the nave; the nave and it intersect at the crossing to produce a cruciform plan.

*The transverse portion of a cross shaped church building

Voussoirs