Art Appreciation – Study Sheet: Test 2, Chapters 17 – 21
Chapter 17 – The Ancient World
Plates 17-2, 17-5, 17-6, 17-7, 17-9, 17-15, 17-18, 17-20, 17-24, 17-25, 17-26, 17-32
Cultures/Eras: Paleolithic, Neolithic, Mesopotamian (Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian), Egyptian,
Indus River (India), Shang/Han/Zhou (China), Olmec (Mesoamerica), Aegean (Minoan
Mycenaean), Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Buddhism
Artists: Iktinos and Kallikrates, Phidias
Vocabulary: Paleolithic, Neolithic, megalith ,cromlech, henge (stone circle of megaliths),
polytheism, monotheism, ka, Minotaur, triumphal arches, acropolis, Hellenism,
contrapposto, stupa,
Concepts: -General characteristics of the art of each period/culture
-Understanding of the influence of earlier cultures on later ones
-Advances in thinking, technology, social development from one time period to the
next and how that shows in their artistic output
-Roman Arch and Concrete
-Hammurabi and the codification of the law
Chapter 18 – The Age of Faith
Plates: 18-1, 18-6 & 7, 18-10, 18-16, 18-17, 18-22, 18-30
Cultures/Eras: Buddhism, Byzantine, Carolingian, Romanesque, Gothic, Islamic, Hindu, Ife
Artists: Gislebertus
Vocabulary: bodhisattva, mudra, basilica, ambulatory, basilica, mosaic, tesserae, pendentives,
iconoclasts, tympanum, mosque, hypostyle space, minaret (tower for the call to
prayer), mihrab, qibla wall, Vedas, pagoda, stained glass, samuri, shogun,
scarification
Concepts: -Religions: Christianity, Islam, Buddhist, Hindu, Shinto
-Development of Church architecture and visual imagery in Byzantine,
Romanesque, Gothic
-Light in Gothic Architecture, rib vaults, stained glass/light, pointed arches,
-Importance of calligraphy in Islamic art
-Iconography of Shiva Nataraja in Hindu ar
-Africa: Ife Culture
Chapter 19 – The Renaissance through the Baroque
edition Plates: 19-2, 19-6, 19-8, 19-9, 19-12, 19-15, 19-20, 19-22, 19-27, 19-31 & 32, 19-33
Periods/cultures: Renaissance (Italian, Northern), China (Ming Dynasty),
Pre-Columbian (Mayan, Aztec, Inca), Africa (Benin), Mannerism, Baroque
Artists: Donatello, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Durer, Shen Zhou, Bronzino, Bernini,
Caravaggio
Vocabulary: Renaissance, chiaroscuro, oil paint, Humanism, Neoplatonism,
Mannerism, Baroque
Concepts: -Characteristics of Renaissance art, differences between Italian and Northern
-Chinese Art: effect of Mongol occupation, Northern vs. Southern School
-Pre-Columbian art: Inca, Maya, Aztec
-Characteristics of Mannerism
-Characteristics of Baroque, effect of Protestant Reformation
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Chapter 20 – The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Plates: 20-9, 20-13, 20-14, 20-19, 20-22, 20-24, 20-34
Periods/Styles – Rococo, Neoclassical, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism,
Post-Impressionism
Artists: David, Goya, Gericault, Courbet, Manet, Monet, Cezanne
Vocabulary: Rococo, salon, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, sublime, Realism, Impressionism,
Post-Impressionism
Concepts: -Characteristics of each period/style in terms of form and content
-Relationship of styles to reality (idealism, realism, increasing abstraction)
Chapter 21 – From 1900 to the Present
Plates: 21-3, 21-11, 21-14, 21-17, 21-19, 21-22, 21-31
Artists: Matisse, Dali, Picasso, Hopper, Willem de Kooning, Lichtenstein, Frida Khalo,
Vocabulary/Periods: Cubism, Fauvism, Expressionism, Futurism, Dada, Surrealism, Modernism,
Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Post-Modernism, automatism
Concepts: -Characteristics of the styles: What made them innovative, how they questioned
assumptions, what they tried to accomplish or communicate