A. P. ART HISTORY – SEMESTER EXAM PREP
PART I -- FREE RESPONSE QUESTIONS – 30points – appx. 20 minutes
3 free-response questions.
These questions will be based on one or two work shown simultaneously. You’ll be asked to address a
particular point about a work or works. Example Topics=
approach to figurative art, approach to sacred
space, approach to religious imagery, contextual questions, use of various techniques and art
elements/principles of design.
Example:
Explain what accounts for the differences in the approach to the human figure in these two pictures?
PART II -- MULTIPLE CHOICE -- 120points
Part A= Questions with slides = 20 questions
One-word answers: artists, styles, periods, techniques, media, vocabulary, etc.
Examples
a.
b.
c.
d.
Giotto
Masaccio
Donatello
Ghirlandaio
a.
b.
c.
d.
early 14th century
late 12th century
late 14th century
early 15th century
Part B =
Questions on all material from Semester 1. 100 questions
Questions about artists, styles, periods, subjects, traditions, techniques, media, vocabulary, context, etc.
Note= 1/3 of these questions= Chapter 21
Examples
2. Architect for the building, the Palazzo Rucellai, Florence?
a. Brunelleschi
d. Michelozzo
b. Donatello
c. Alberti
3. What was the fundamental question for this Renaissance
architect?
a. How to surmount a dome on an octangular substructure
b. How to mimic and recreate the classical world
c. How to impose contemporary motifs onto classical
buildings
d. How to impose classical motifs onto contemporary
buildings
IMAGES
Woman of Willendorf, Stonehenge, Lascaux cave paintings, lammasu, Citadel of Sargon II, Stele of Hammurabi,
ziggurat, Palette of Narmer, Khafre, Egyptian Book of the Dead, Ziggurat at Ur, Cycladic figures, Kritios Boy,
Spear Bearer, Parthenon, Nike of Samothrace, Temple of Fortuna Virilis, Pantheon, Greek vases, Augustus
Primaporta, Pont du Gard, Colosseum, Roman Patrician, Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus, Old St. Peter’s, Christ
Good Shepherd Mosaic, Hagia Sophia, Church of San Vitale, Justinian/Theodora mosaics, Madonna Enthroned
Icon, Great Mosque at Kairouan, Great Stupa, Gero Crucifix, Sutton Hoo Purse Cover, St. Sernin, Book of Kells,
Lindau Gospel Cover, Last Judgment Tympanum, Charlemagne and Ebbo Gospel pages, Charlemagne Chapel
at Aachen, Bayeux Tapestry, Church of St. Denis, Chartres Cathedral, Chartres jamb figures, Visitation figures
from Reims, Salisbury Cathedral, Orvieto Cathedral, Rottgen Pieta, Lamentation, Birth of the Virgin, Florence
Cathedral, Giotto Madonna Enthroned, Duccio Madonna Enthroned with Saints, Tribute Money, Holy Trinity with
Donors, Donatello David, Donatello St. Mark, Florence Baptistery door panels, Adoration of the Maji, Santo
Spirito, Foundling Hospital, Santo Spirito, Birth of Venus, Palazzo Rucellai, Sant‘ Andrea, Dead Christ, Palazzo
Rucellai, Christ Delivering Keys,
VOCABULARY
Paleolithic, Neolithic, abstract(ion), animism, sculpture in round, relief sculpture (high/low) , incising,
modeling(shaping), post-and-lintel, corbel vault, corbeling, dolmen, menhir, cromlech, henge, megalith(ic),
ceramics, pigment
anthropomorphic, cella, Cuneiform, low relief, lamassu, metalwork, mud brick, inlaid, lapis lazuli, pictograph(ic),
standard, stele, stylus, votive figure, ziggurat,
Amarna period, axial plan, canon of proportions, column, colonnade, composite view, convention, groundline,
hierarchical scale, hieroglyph, hypostyle hall, Imhotep, ka, live rock, mastaba, Middle Kingdom, necropolis, New
Kingdom, obelisk, Old Kingdom, papyrus, pictograph, portrait bust, pylon, register, rock cut, sarcophagus,
scribe, step pyramid,
beehive tomb, citadel, corbeled vault, faience, fresco, gold leaf, incising, Knossos,
megaron, mural, relieving triangle, rhyton, sculpture in the round, terracotta, zoomorphic
Akropolis, amphora, caryatid, contrapposto, encaustic, entasis, façade, frieze,
Humanism, hydria, kouros, kore, krater, kylix, lost wax casting, mosaic, Phidian, slip,
amphitheater, aqueduct, arcade, arch, atrium, barrel vault, basilica, buttress, coffer(s), concrete, Corinthian
order, dome, domus, groin vault, illusionism, insula, keystone, mosaic, oculus, still life, triumphal arch, verism,
voussoirs
apse, atrium, baptistery, basilica plan, catacomb, central plan, Chi Rho, clerestory, codex, Constantinople,
diptych, Edict of Milan, Gospels, icon, iconoclasm, Latin cross, lunette, manuscript illumination, Mass, mausoleum, narthex, nave, orants, pagan, parchment, rotunda, syncretism, tempera, tesserae, transept, vellum
icon, iconoclasm, iconostasis, pendentives, Ravenna, squinches , Theotokos
cloisonné, cloister, gallery, monastery, interlace, repouseé, scriptorium(ia), westwork
ambulatory, archivolt, campanile, Crusades, embroidery, gilt, jamb(s), pilgrimage, polychrome, portal, reliquary,
trumeau, tympanum
altarpiece, Annunciation, bay, boss, buon fresco, cathedral, cartoon, clerestory, compound pier, flying
buttresses, fresco secco, gable, grisalle, International Style, Lamentation, lancets, lux nova, Perpendicular Style,
pier, pieta, pinnacle, respond, rib vaulting, rose window, sinopia, spire, springing, stained glass, stringcourse,
tracery, transverse rib, triforium, Visitation
colossal order, foreshortening, Medici, patronage, perspective, picture plane, pietra serena, pilaster, predella,
roundel, rusticated, vanishing point,