Final Exam Study Guide for Art 31: The Visual Experience
Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York, Fall 2011
Format of the Departmental Final: 2 short essays based on artworks (30 pts) and
70 multiple choice questions (1 pt each = 70 pts)
Image List: This is the image list of specific art works to know for the exam. Questions about these works may appear on the test. You are also expected to know the date, media and style for each of these works.
Art: A Brief History : Chapters 1 through 10:
Artist Title
Woman from Willendorf
Figure and Page Numbers
(4 th Edition)
Fig. 1-4, p. 25
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Iktinos and Kallikrates
Stele of Naram-Sin
Great Pyramids, Giza
Menkaure and Queen Khamerernebty
Great Stupa, Sanchi
Anavysos Kouros
Kritios Boy
The Parthenon
Augustus of Primaporta
The Pantheon
Wall with Torah Niche
Katsushika Hokusai
Dome of the Rock
The Great Wave
Bayeaux Embroidery
Art: A Brief History : Chapters 11 through 14:
Artist Title
Duccio
Jan van Eyck
Limbourg Brothers
Donatello
Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Properzia de’ Rossi
Bernini
Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife
David
Caravaggio
Velázquez
Calling of Saint Matthew
Las Meninas
Art: A Brief History : Chapters 15 through 19:
Artist Title
Jefferson
Delacroix
Cole
Lewis
Whistler
Eakins
Picasso
Rose and lancet windows, Chartres
Cathedral
Maestà
Arnolfini Portrait
February Page, Très Riches Heurs
David
Pietà
The Sistine Ceiling
Fig. 2-1, p. 38
Fig. 3-5, p. 62
Fig. 3-9, p. 64
Fig. 4-4, p. 80
Fig. 5-16, p. 113
Fig. 5-22, p. 117
Fig. 5-26a, p. 121
Fig. 6-12, p.146
Fig. 6-27 and 6-28, p. 156-157
Fig. 7-3, p. 169
Fig. 8-2 and 8-3, p. 195
Fig. 9-27, p. 238
Fig. 10-29, p. 264
Figure and Page Numbers
(4 th Edition)
Fig. 11-10, p. 280
Fig. 11-28, p. 294
Fig. 12-1, p. 302
Fig. 12-2, p. 305
Fig. 12-20, p. 321
Fig. 13-8, p. 343
Fig. 13-10, 13-11, 13-12, p 345-
347
Fig. 13-15, p. 349
Fig. 14-4, p. 382
Fig. 14-9 and 14-10, p. 387-88
Fig. 14-13, p. 391
Machu Picchu, Peru
Head of a King from Ife, Nigeria
Power figure (nkisi nkonde)
Monticello
Figure and Page Numbers
(4 th Edition)
Fig. 15-16, p. 429
Fig. 16-3, p. 445
Fig. 16-13, p. 453
Fig. 17-11, p. 470
Liberty Leading the People: July 28, 1830 Fig. 17-19, p. 478
The Oxbow Fig. 17-25, p. 483
Forever Free Fig. 18-6, p. 499
Fig. 18-9, p. 502 Nocturne in Black and Gold (The Falling
Rocket)
The Gross Clinic
Japonisme (discussion box)
Ma Jolie
Fig. 18-14, p. 505 p. 517
Fig. 19-9, p. 533

Final Exam Study Guide for Art 31: The Visual Experience
Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York, Fall 2011
Vocabulary List: This is the vocabulary list of specific art works to know for the exam. Questions about these vocabulary words may appear on the test.
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Important Formal Terms to Know:
 Horizontal; vertical; orthogonal
 Primary and secondary colors
 Marble, Bronze, Terra cotta
 Painting: Fresco, Tempera, Oil
 Prints: Printing Press; Engraving; Etching; Woodcut; Lithography; Photography
 Façade
 Subject matter types: religious; historical; mythological; portraits (including self-portraits and group portraits); genre; landscape; seascape; still-life
 Composition; plane; balance; line; depth; space; shape; light and color; texture
The Ancient World to Early Christian Art, Chapters 1 through 10:
 General Characteristics of Ancient Near Eastern Art, Egyptian Art, Greek Art and Roman Art
 Periods of Prehistoric Art: Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic
 Hieratic scale
 Black-figure and red-figure pottery painting
 Kore and Kouros figures
 Contrapposto pose
 Classical Orders of Architecture (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian)
 Aqueducts; domes; the oculus; triumphal arches and columns; concrete
 Ziggurat
 Lamassu; Sphinx
 Hypostyle Hall
 Amphoras and Kraters
 Mosque, minaret, qibla, mihrab, minbar
Gothic through Rococo, Chapters 11 through 14:
 General Characteristics of Early Christian and Byzantine Art
 Basilica
 Abbot Suger
 Mosaics; Tesserae
 Church architecture: barrel vault; tympanum; portal; apse; nave; narthex; side aisles; chapels; transept; ambulatories
 Pointed Arches; Flying Buttresses; Stained glass windows (rose and lancet windows)
 Linear Perspective and atmospheric perspective; Foreshortening; Chiaroscuro
 Diptych, Triptych and Polyptych
 Sfumato, Tenebrism, Caravaggisti
 Protestant Reformation and Counter Reformation
Art of the Americas through Modern Art, Chapters 15 through 19:
 General Characteristics of Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism,
Neo-Impressionism and Cubism
 Inca Masonry, irregular stone wall; smooth-surfaced wall
 Lost-wax casting
 Chinoiserie
 Japonisme--its influence on the Impressionist styles
 African art and its influences onto Modernism
 Pointillism, Divisionism
 Paris Salon Exhibitions
 Collage
 The sublime in art (especially in landscape painting)