Across
- 6. Painting of a 270 foot tower in the capital city of Babylon.
- 9. Earliest free-standing statues of human figures; frontal stance, left foot forward, clenched fists, and grimace known as “archaic smile”
- 12. A design drawn on a smooth piece of wood then cut out.
- 13. Famous for his painting “Birth of Venus”
- 17. Period includes kouros stone figures and vase painting
- 18. First structure to utilize 4 walls to make a dome.
- 20. How long the great pyramid of Giza took to build.
- 21. Best known for French baroque and classic forms of nature.
- 22. Da Vinci Renaissance man known for famous painting “Mona Lisa”
- 23. most famous French painter who did classical realism
- 26. Became the primary choice of paint for renaissance
- 28. Pyramid like structure to add form to a painting
- 30. The master of light
- 31. Based on African tribal sculpture and masks, which fractured reality into overlapping planes.
- 33. In a statue, when the weight of the body rests on one leg.
- 34. Who’s twentieth century works grew out of the century old practices.
- 36. Island of 30 foot tall structures demonstrating their ancestors techniques.
- 38. Schematic Design of the pyramid
- 40. Renaissance man known for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
- 45. Recaptures the idea of contrapposto.
- 48. Intended to publicize the Christian creed
- 49. Roman Catholic faith firmly established in art.
- 50. Greek-derived style, found in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Egypt; more melodramatic than classical style.
- 52. Decorative art which looked like the world itself
- 54. Largest known Roman Architecture
- 55. Using strong acid to cut into metal surface
- 58. The feeling of a painting and what vibe it gives off.
- 59. Rembrandts portraits were high in fashion and biblical plus historical scenes in baroque style.
- 61. The balance of a painting and everything working together to create it.
- 62. Peak of Greek art and architecture, idealized figures exemplify order and harmony
- 63. The pinnacle of Middle Ages artistic achievement
- 64. This palace is one of Frances greatest achievements
- 65. Artists in the 1920’s who collected pacific carvings, African masks, and fanciful Eskimo masks.
Down
- 1. The impermanence of Navaho sand painting destroyed at the end of a rite, influenced abstract expressionists to focus on the process of artistic creation rather than the end product.
- 2. City of ashes blown up by mount Vesuvius.
- 3. Rembrandts portraits were quieter and deeper in style
- 4. One of the earliest known statues
- 5. Famous painting by Diego Velazquez in 1656
- 7. Early phase of classical sculpture characterized by reserved, remote expressions.
- 8. The use of light and shadow to create an illusion of a rounded texture on a flat surface.
- 10. Age in art of transitioning between Middle Ages and Modernity
- 11. Best known for his series of paintings of “Modern Moral Subjects”
- 14. Style of vase painting where black forms stood out against a reddish clay background.
- 15. Nicknamed “Sloppy Tom” First to paint human figure as a real human being.
- 16. Pottery ornamented with geometric banding and friezes of simplified animals or humans.
- 19. Large wool and silk hanging paintings.
- 24. Placement and arrangement of all elements in a painting
- 25. Pyramid type structure known from ancient Mesopotamia
- 27. Where’s prints are made from blinds and a plate.
- 29. Political type sculpture
- 32. First to abandon wood panels, and always covered the surface of his canvas in red.
- 35. Famous renaissance man who mostly painted qualities of high renaissance
- 37. Native American builders construction on burial mounds.
- 39. Known famously for satirical art.
- 41. Illusion of depth on a flat surface
- 42. Champion of idealizing reality
- 43. Known for painting generally unsuccessful landscape painting.
- 44. moralistic paintings made to punish sinners.
- 46. Reconstruction of Egyptian civilization.
- 47. The way a painting seems to “move” or the focal point it builds to
- 51. Glass tinted with chemicals to add colors
- 53. Brilliant brushwork that captured the visual world with hyper realism.
- 56. Sophisticated artists like Modigliani found a freshness and vitality in tribal art, missing, and conventional art.
- 57. Chapel made famous for its vast amount of paintings on its ceiling
- 60. Counter reformation of the catholic revival in art.