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| Greek, the "writing of images". Iconoclasts destroyed images. |
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| The dating of art objects and buildings. |
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| A likeness of a person, especially one showing the face, that is created by a painter or photographer, for example. |
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| A printing orientation that prints data across the wider side of the form. A depiction of a place. |
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| Unique characteristics that identifies a figure. |
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| People who paid artists for either individual works or pieces on a continuing basis. |
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| An object's shape and structure. |
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| How an artist organizes (composes) forms in an artwork. |
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| mediums and stuff used to create the art. |
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| Path of a point moving in space, visible or suggested. |
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| Orange, green, and purple. |
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| Red/green, yellow/purple, and blue/orange. |
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| The quality of a surface, actual and non-actual. |
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| The space around and between the subject(s) of an image. |
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| The illusion of depth or space on a 2D surface. |
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| A convention of representation in which part of a figure is shown in profile and another part of the same figure is shown frontally; a composite view. |
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| Freestanding figures, carved or modeled in three dimensions. |
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| In sculpture, figures projecting from a background of which they are part. |
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| A kind of sculpture technique in which materials are built up to create form |
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| Formed in relief by beating a metal plate from the back, leaving an impression on the face. |
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| The horizontal arrangement of the parts of a building or of the buildings and streets of a city or town, or a drawing or diagram showing such an arrangement. |
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| "Before writing". Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic. |
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| Before agriculture; nomadic hunters and gatherers. Paleo= old. Lithic= stone. |
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| Attribution of human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena. |
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| Roman goddess of cultivated fields and gardens, later associated with Aphrodite. |
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| In paintings and reliefs, a painted, or caved baseline on which figures appear to stand on. |
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