Art Appreciation 1301 Study Guide for Unit II
Media/methods and Art Periods covered in Chapter 3.1
Chapter Historical Styles or Media /Methods Covered
5-Drawing Purposes (categories), wet and dry media
6-Painting Fresco, Encaustic, Tempera, Mosaic—see process guides
9-Sculpture Modeling, casting (including lost-wax technique), carving, lost-
wax, types of materials, stone, wood, clay, metal
10-Architecture Stone architecture and wood architecture
11-Crafts Ceramics, Glass, Fiber, Metalwork and Jewelry
12-Ancient Art Prehistoric, Ancient Near East, Egyptian, and Aegean
13-Classical Art Greece and Rome
14-Christian Art Early Christian, Byzantine, Early Medieval, Carolingian,
Ottonian, Romanesque, and Gothic
Historical Styles and Vocabulary
PREHISTORIC & ANCIENT ART
Upper Paleolithic – Lascaux, drawing dry media, pigment, binder, Venus of Willendorf, subtractive,
carving, full round, Mesolithic – Cave of Addaura, engraving, incising, Neolithic – Stonehenge, post & lintel
architecture, megaliths
Ancient Near East-Mesopotamia
Sumer – Ziggurat at Ur, cuneiform writing, dry masonry, Statues from Abu Temple, Akkad-Victory Stele
of Naram-Sin, hierarchical scale, Babylonia – Code of Hammurabi, Assyria-The Dying Lioness, bas relief
sculpture, Persia-Capital from Royal Audience Hall
Egyptian Art
Old Kingdom
Narmer Palette registers, hierarchical scale
Statue of Khafre canon of proportion, ka figures
Pyramids of Giza
New Kingdom
Temple of Hatshepsut mortuary temple, colonnades
Akhenaton, Nefertiti Amarna period, Coffin of Tutankhamen
embossing, inlay hieroglyphics
Aegean Art
The Cyclades
Cycladic figure
Crete
Minoans, labyrinth, pictographs, Queen’s bedroom at Knossos, buon (true) fresco
Mycenae
Lion Gate, Treasury of Atreus, tholos, corbel, Funerary mask, hammered gold
GREECE and ROME – CLASSICAL ART
Greek Styles/Periods: Geometric, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic
Greek – Humanism, Rationalism, Idealism
Geometric – Dipylon Vase terra cotta
Archaic
Women Working Wool on a Loom , Black figure style, slip, architectural orders, entablature,
Frieze, pediment, cella, Sculpture – Fallen Warrior, Kouros, Kore , encaustic
Classical – balance, ideal, Discobolus by Myron , marble copy of bronze original
Media/methods and Art Periods covered in Chapter 3.1
Chapter Historical Styles or Media /Methods Covered
5-Drawing Purposes (categories), wet and dry media
6-Painting Fresco, Encaustic, Tempera, Mosaic—see process guides
9-Sculpture Modeling, casting (including lost-wax technique), carving, lost-
wax, types of materials, stone, wood, clay, metal
10-Architecture Stone architecture and wood architecture
11-Crafts Ceramics, Glass, Fiber, Metalwork and Jewelry
12-Ancient Art Prehistoric, Ancient Near East, Egyptian, and Aegean
13-Classical Art Greece and Rome
14-Christian Art Early Christian, Byzantine, Early Medieval, Carolingian,
Ottonian, Romanesque, and Gothic
Historical Styles and Vocabulary
PREHISTORIC & ANCIENT ART
Upper Paleolithic – Lascaux, drawing dry media, pigment, binder, Venus of Willendorf, subtractive,
carving, full round, Mesolithic – Cave of Addaura, engraving, incising, Neolithic – Stonehenge, post & lintel
architecture, megaliths
Ancient Near East-Mesopotamia
Sumer – Ziggurat at Ur, cuneiform writing, dry masonry, Statues from Abu Temple, Akkad-Victory Stele
of Naram-Sin, hierarchical scale, Babylonia – Code of Hammurabi, Assyria-The Dying Lioness, bas relief
sculpture, Persia-Capital from Royal Audience Hall
Egyptian Art
Old Kingdom
Narmer Palette registers, hierarchical scale
Statue of Khafre canon of proportion, ka figures
Pyramids of Giza
New Kingdom
Temple of Hatshepsut mortuary temple, colonnades
Akhenaton, Nefertiti Amarna period, Coffin of Tutankhamen
embossing, inlay hieroglyphics
Aegean Art
The Cyclades
Cycladic figure
Crete
Minoans, labyrinth, pictographs, Queen’s bedroom at Knossos, buon (true) fresco
Mycenae
Lion Gate, Treasury of Atreus, tholos, corbel, Funerary mask, hammered gold
GREECE and ROME – CLASSICAL ART
Greek Styles/Periods: Geometric, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic
Greek – Humanism, Rationalism, Idealism
Geometric – Dipylon Vase terra cotta
Archaic
Women Working Wool on a Loom , Black figure style, slip, architectural orders, entablature,
Frieze, pediment, cella, Sculpture – Fallen Warrior, Kouros, Kore , encaustic
Classical – balance, ideal, Discobolus by Myron , marble copy of bronze original
