Art work and vocabulary about art history.
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| 1921664052 | Pre-historic | before written history | 0 | |
| 1921664053 | Cave art | paintings, engravings, and art on the walls of caves and shelters made of rock, especially depicting animals, produced by Upper Paleolithic peoples of Western Europe between about 28,000 and 10,000 years ago. | 1 | |
| 1921664054 | Art Criticism | the process of responding to, interpreting meaning, and making critical judgments about specific works of art | 2 | |
| 1921664055 | Michelangelo | Great renaissance master artist; sculptor; Pieta: most famous: Pieta (Mary and dead Jesus) ; David; Ceiling of Sistine Chapel: Biblical scenes, God reaching Adam, last judgement, Moses |  | 3 |
| 1921664056 | Lascaux France | site of cave paintings by nomadic bands that show lifestyle, beliefs, animism (spirits reside in animals, objects, or dreams) Hall of bulls | 4 | |
| 1921664057 | Stonehenge | Neolithic, Prehistoric, architecture Post and Lintel circle of megalithic stones. |  | 5 |
| 1921664058 | Roman architecture | Borrowed heavily from other cultures such as Greek: Columns and arches. They also developed new idea: Arches, colosseum, baths, aqueduct. | 6 | |
| 1921664059 | The colosseum | What was a central amphitheater in Rome, that was completed in 80 A.D., was made of concrete, seated 50,000 speculators, hosted gladiator/chariot games/races and other deadly events. |  | 7 |
| 1921664060 | Illuminated manuscripts | A hand written book decorated with bright colors and precious metals. A decorative art of the Middle Ages characterized by large ornate capitals and decorated borders. Monks created them. |  | 8 |
| 1921664061 | Cathedral | A large church, paid for by the town, that was the highlight of the town. There are two types, Romanesque and Gothic. |  | 9 |
| 1921664062 | Stained glass | Artistic arrangement of colored glass pieces held in placed with lead strips; used extensively in Gothic cathedrals. |  | 10 |
| 1921723903 | David | A marble sculpture by Michelangelo depicts a young teenager just after he took down the 9' Philistine giant, Goliath with his sling shot. |  | 11 |
| 1921723904 | Leonardo da Vinci | Italian painter, engineer, musician, and scientist. The most versatile genius of the Renaissance, he filled notebooks with engineering and scientific observations that were in some cases centuries ahead of their time. As a painter he is best known for The Last Supper (c. 1495) and Mona Lisa (c. 1503). |  | 12 |
| 1921723905 | Pieta | A sculpture of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, holding the dead body of Jesus. A famous sculpture by Michelangelo. |  | 13 |
| 1921761687 | Raphael | (1483-1520) Italian Renaissance painter; he painted frescos, his most famous being The School of Athens. |  | 14 |
| 1926377053 | School of Athens | High Renaissance fresco painted by Raphael in the Papal Palace in Rome; it depicts ancient philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle |  | 15 |
| 1926377054 | Last Judgement | Painted by Michelangelo- (1536-1541) on the alter wall, a description of event described in Matt. 24:30-31 (Jesus Christ's judgment of the living and the dead on the last day when he comes to fully establish God's Kingdom.) |  | 16 |
| 1926377055 | Sistine chapel | Michelangelo painted this ceiling and rear wall for the Pope. |  | 17 |
| 1926377056 | Mona Lisa | A painting by Leonardo da Vinci of a woman with a mysterious smile. It is now of the most readily recognized paintings in the world. |  | 18 |
| 1926377057 | The last supper | A fresco painted by Leonardo da Vinci depicting Jesus and his disciples at the moment Jesus announces that one of them has betrayed him. |  | 19 |
| 1926377058 | Donatello | Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural, lifelike figures, such as the BRONZE nude statue David. |  | 20 |
| 1926377059 | Annunciation | Angel Gabriel announces to Mary that she will be the virgin mother of Jesus. |  | 21 |
| 1926377060 | Madonna and child | A famous painting by Raphael. It is a picture with Mary holding baby Jesus. A common theme in art. |  | 22 |
| 1926377061 | Rose window | A round window, often filled with stained glass; common on the facades of Gothic cathedrals. |  | 23 |
| 1926377062 | Gargoyle | A grotesque carved human or animal figure, especially one used as a rainspout carrying water clear of a wall |  | 24 |
| 1926377063 | Monk | A man who gave up all of his property and dedicated his life to God; monks stayed in monasteries where they prayed, worked hard, and lived quiet, serious lives; they copied old Greek and Roman manuscripts, helped the poor and needy, and converted people to Christianity. |  | 25 |
| 1926377064 | Great wall of China | A huge wall that is over 6000 miles, which was built to keep the Mongolians in the north out of China. |  | 26 |
| 1926377065 | Rossetta Stone | A huge stone slab inscribed with hieroglyphics, Greek, and a later form of Egyptian that allowed historians to understand Egyptian writing. |  | 27 |
| 1926377066 | Aquaduct | in ancient Rome, bridgelike stone structure that carried water from the hills into the cities. |  | 28 |
| 1926377067 | Doric, ionic, corinthian | Three forms of Greek columns that represent what is still known as classical architecture. Doric is the simplest; Corinthian is the most elaborate. |  | 29 |
| 1926377068 | Sphinx | A mythical Egyptian beast with the body of a lion and the head of a human. (Told riddles and was very cunning) Large stone statue in Giza Egypt. |  | 30 |
| 1926377069 | Pyramids | A massive structure with a square base and four triangular sides that meet at a point. In the Old Kingdom, were used as tombs for the pharaohs. |  | 31 |
| 1991778986 | Parchment | A paperlike writing material made from the skins of sheep or goats |  | 32 |
| 1991778987 | Gold leaf | Real gold beaten into thin sheets and applied to other surfaces, very commonly on Illuminated Manuscripts. |  | 33 |
| 1991778988 | Calligraphy | Art of beautiful handwriting |  | 34 |
| 1992154232 | The Starry Night | Painted by Vincent van Gogh, A painting by Van Gogh that is an evening cityscape. |  | 35 |
| 1992154233 | Waterlilies | painted by Claude Monet, who dammed up a stream in his backyard to make a lilly pond, celebrating color and light {impressionism} |  | 36 |
| 1992154234 | Vincent van Gogh | Dutch postimpressionist painter noted for his use of color (1853-1890) |  | 37 |
| 1992154235 | 2 point perspective | What do you call a Perspective drawing that contains two vanishing points? |  | 38 |
| 1992154236 | zentangle | an art form that contains tangles of patterns and textures dispersed in separate, divided areas |  | 39 |
| 2347659593 | Triangle | Renaissance artists used this shape to balance their work. | 40 | |
| 2347664627 | Jan van Eyck | A Northern Renaissance painter that is credited for discovering oil paint. |  | 41 |
| 2347673487 | Massaccio | A painter who is remembered for being the first to use linear perspective to give his work a three-dimensional quality. |  | 42 |
| 2347682125 | Florence, Italy | In the 1400s this city was the capital of Europe's cloth trade, home of the richest bank and the center for art. |  | 43 |
| 2347709408 | Leonardo da Vinci | This left handed artist wrote his notes backwards to keep his ideas private. A mirror was needed to read them. |  | 44 |
| 2347733481 | Renaissance | -rebirth of art, culture, and intellect started in Italy 1350-1600 A.D. | 45 |
