AP Art History Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 8. a column embedded in a wall and partly projecting from the surface of the wall
  2. 11. The point at which receding parallel lines viewed in perspective appear to converge
  3. 12. a Renaissance cultural movement which turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought
  4. 13. Diagonal lines that can be drawn along receding parallel lines
  5. 14. The technique of depicting an object or human body in a picture so as to produce an illusion of projection or extension in space
  6. 15. The technique of allowing tones and colours to shade gradually into one another, producing softened outlines or hazy forms
  7. 16. A painting that is cleverly designed to trick people into thinking that the objects represented in it are really there
  8. 18. A term for the twenty idealized male nudes Michelangelo painted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling
Down
  1. 1. The “face” of a building, especially the principal front that looks onto a street or open space
  2. 2. A still life artwork which includes various symbolic objects designed to remind the viewer of their mortality and of the worthlessness of worldly goods and pleasures
  3. 3. Paintings of subjects from everyday life, usually small in scale
  4. 4. A painting technique wherein paint is thickly laid on a surface, so that brushstrokes or palette knife marks are visible
  5. 5. A thought form rooted in the philosophy of Plato but extending beyond or transforming it in many respects
  6. 6. A certain type of painting in which significant details such as faces and hands are illuminated by highlights which are contrasted with a predominantly dark setting
  7. 7. Technique employed in the visual arts to represent light and shadow as they define three-dimensional objects
  8. 9. A woman in ancient times who was thought to utter the prophecies of a god
  9. 10. Extreme foreshortening of figures painted on a ceiling or other high surface so as to give the illusion that the figures are suspended in air above the viewer
  10. 17. A rectangular column, especially one projecting from a wall that offers no structural support