Art History Vocab Review (Chapters Intro–4)

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