Art History Third Quiz

Known as the Anasazi.

Exploit the principle that the farther back the object is in space, the blurrier and less detailed it appears.

Called themselves Mexica and claimed descent from the Toltecs.

A canopy on columns, frequently built over an altar.

The traditional blanket designation for European art from 1600 to 1750.

In 1897, British sacked and burned the City, there were still 17 shrines to ancestors in the royal palace.

Architect, painter, sculptor, playwright, and stage designer.

Latin, "dark room."

In drawing or painting, the treatment and use of light and dark, especially the gradations of light that produce the effect of modeling.

Aztec, earth-mother goddess.

Italian, "colored" or "painted."

Moon goddess.

A two-paneled painting or altarpiece.

Italian, "drawing" and "design."

Florentine sculptor, who was a former apprentice in Ghiberti's workshop.

The process of incising a design in hard material, often a metal plate(usually copper).

A kind of engraving in which the design is incised in a layer of wax or varnish on a metal plate.

Dates to 1576 and aptly describes the highly restricted access to the inner compound, where the Ming emperor, the Son of Heaven, resided.

In Japanese art, a loose and rapidly executed painting style in which the ink seems to have been applied by flinging or splashing it onto the paper.

A complex and fascinating polyptych reflecting Catholic beliefs and incorporating several references to Catholic doctrines, such as the lamb, whose wound spurts blood into a chalice in the crucifixion scene.

Determine mathematically the relative size of rendered objects to correlate them with the visual recession into space.

Which perches on a ridge between two jagged peaks 9,000 feet above sea level.

The central panel of an altarpiece in San Francesco Grande and was painted by Leonardo da Vinci with Madonna, Christ Child, infant John the Baptist, and a angel.

A style of later Renaissance art that emphasized "artifice," often involving contrived imagery not derived directly from nature.

A small triptych with Annunciation as the central panel.

Florentine sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance.

A painting technique using oil-based pigments that rose to prominence in northern Europe in the 15th century and is now the standard medium for painting on canvas.

A line imagined to be behind and perpendicular to the picture plane.

An altarpiece composed of more than three sections.

Painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and literature were produced during the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries in Europe.

Italian, "smoky."

"Crown Palace."

The traditional woven straw mat used for floor covering in Japanese architecture.

A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk, glue, or casein.

Roman round temples, Bramante's "little temple."

Italian, "shadowy."

Lie directly beneath the center of Mexico City.

French, "fools the eye."

Located at the exact center of the line.

Latin, "vanity."