AP Art Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 2. Weight-shift stance revived from classical sculpture. |
  2. 4. Intaglio printmaking technique using metal plates—allows fine detail. |
  3. 6. Domestic Annunciation scene filled with disguised symbolism. |
  4. 8. Professional organizations that commissioned many early Renaissance artworks. |
  5. 9. Early master of perspective and chiaroscuro in the Brancacci Chapel. |
  6. 10. Sculptor who revived contrapposto in his bronze *David*. |
  7. 12. Financial support for artists from merchant families, guilds, and city governments. |
  8. 14. A major characteristic of Renaissance artistic development. |
  9. 17. Three-paneled format common in Northern altarpieces. |
  10. 19. Artistic shift toward lifelike emotion and gravity before the Renaissance fully emerges. |
  11. 21. Wet-plaster painting technique used in 14th-century chapels. |
  12. 26. Individual or institution funding artworks. |
  13. 28. Medium that allowed glowing colors and microscopic detail in 15th-century Flanders. |
  14. 29. Non-religious subjects becoming more common, especially in portraiture. |
  15. 30. Image in which figures represent abstract concepts. |
  16. 37. Visual trick to create depth by shortening forms angled toward the viewer. |
  17. 40. System of symbols used to convey religious narrative, studied intensely by Panofsky. |
  18. 42. Chapel in Padua famous for narrative fresco cycles about human emotion. |
  19. 43. Inventor of linear perspective; architect of the Florence dome. |
  20. 44. Painter of mythological allegories like *Birth of Venus*. |
  21. 45. Northern technique of embedding theological meanings in everyday objects. |
  22. 46. Relief print technique used before engraving becomes widespread. |
  23. 47. Wealthy Florentine patrons who funded much of the Italian Renaissance. |
  24. 48. Kind of perspective using haze to suggest depth. |
  25. 49. Chartres’ shift, Giotto’s experiment, and Masaccio’s breakthrough all move toward this. |
Down
  1. 1. Artwork intended for private or church worship. |
  2. 3. Preacher whose attacks on humanism led to the Bonfire of the Vanities. |
  3. 5. Horizontal band in narrative scenes, used clearly in medieval and early Renaissance art. |
  4. 7. Scene depicting mourning figures around Christ; Giotto’s famous version tilts the picture plane toward us. |
  5. 11. Formal request for an artwork, usually accompanied by payment and contract. |
  6. 13. Image of Mary holding the dead Christ; more common in Northern Europe, but adopted in Italy. |
  7. 15. Diagonal lines converging at a vanishing point in perspective. |
  8. 16. City considered the birthplace of the 15th-century Renaissance. |
  9. 18. Philosophical movement emphasizing human potential; begins creeping into 14th c. Italy. |
  10. 19. Storytelling element central to medieval and Renaissance art. |
  11. 20. Egg-based paint commonly used in panel paintings before oil becomes common in Italy. |
  12. 22. Artist often (wrongly) credited with inventing oil painting. |
  13. 23. Term referring to the 1400s Italian Renaissance. |
  14. 24. Reproducible medium that spreads images and ideas across Europe. |
  15. 25. Where orthogonals meet in one-point perspective. |
  16. 27. Multi-paneled artwork with hinged wings. |
  17. 31. Painter who introduced believable space through modeling and emotion in the Arena Chapel. |
  18. 32. Visual realism intended to trick the eye. |
  19. 33. Main devotional image placed behind a church altar. |
  20. 34. Mathematical system for depicting 3D space on a 2D surface. |
  21. 35. True fresco technique with pigment applied to wet plaster. |
  22. 36. Intellectual movement inspiring artists to study anatomy and classical antiquity. |
  23. 38. Monumental polyptych with intense detail and lamb iconography. |
  24. 39. Modeling form with light and shadow—Giotto begins to experiment with this. |
  25. 41. Return to Greco-Roman ideals in art and architecture. |