Art History Vocab Review (Chapters Intro–4)

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