AP Art History Unit 1

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Across
  1. 5. ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman things
  2. 8. in art criticism, any work of art of grandeur and simplicity, regardless of its size.
  3. 11. a simple, picture like sign filled with implicit meaning.
  4. 12. a circle of monoliths. Also called henge.
  5. 14. object not made on a pottery wheel.
  6. 17. a "high city" - generally the most important area of the city which would be built on a hill
  7. 19. a wall painting; a fresco is a type of mural medium and technique.
  8. 20. a pointed tool used for engraving or incising.
Down
  1. 1. outline of a figure or shape
  2. 2. a column that is all in one piece (not composed of drums); a large, single block or piece of stone used in megalithic structures.
  3. 3. severallarge stones (megaliths) capped with a covering slab, erected in prehistoric times.
  4. 4. seetwisted perspective.
  5. 6. a broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration near the top of the object
  6. 7. a prehistoric monolith, uncut or roughly cut, standing singly or with others in rows or circles.
  7. 9. a beam used to span an opening.
  8. 10. the doctrine that art should adhere as closely as possible to the appearance of the natural world.Naturalism, with varying degrees of fidelity to appearance, recurs in the history of Western art.
  9. 13. the"middle" prehistoric period, between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic ages.
  10. 15. to cut into a surface with a sharp instrument; also, a method of decoration, especially on metal and pottery.
  11. 16. the"new" Stone Age, approximately 7000-3000 B.C.
  12. 18. a coating applied to a canvas or some other surface to prepare that surface for painting; also, background.