Art History Vocab Review (Chapters Intro-4)

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Across
  1. 3. Assyrian guardian in the form of a man-head winged bull
  2. 5. a circle of monoliths, column shafts all in one piece made in stone or block
  3. 7. a city walled for defense
  4. 9. a system of writing using symbols or pictures
  5. 11. the immortal human life force
  6. 12. formed in relief by beating a metal plate form the back, leaving an impression on the face; metal is hammered into hollow mold of wood
  7. 13. large burial site; "city of the dead"
  8. 14. to cut into a surface with a sharp instrument, method of decoration on metal or pottery
  9. 15. the path of a point moving in space, defines an artwork's shape and form
  10. 16. graphic technique in which design is incised
  11. 17. the organization of forms in an artwork
  12. 18. an independent, self-governing city
  13. 21. the large reception hall in a mycenaean palace, fronted by an open, two-columned porch
  14. 22. set of documents found by archeologists that have been deciphered for a greater understanding of Aegean civilization
  15. 24. the great audience hall in Persian palaces
Down
  1. 1. "great" stone" in Greek, large roughly hewn stone used in the construction of prehistoric structures
  2. 2. a temple with a circular plan
  3. 4. the purity or brightness or dullness of a color
  4. 6. a system of construction in which two posts support a lintel or beam to span an opening
  5. 8. pigments are mixed with water and become chemically bound to the freshly laid lime plaster
  6. 10. what the art is made out of or composed of
  7. 19. the degree of lightness or darkness in a color
  8. 20. a female figure that functions as a supporting column
  9. 23. carved skull decoration, usually an ox
  10. 25. the simple and massive gateway with sloping walls of an Egyptian temple