Vocabulary

Question 1

Artificial channel for conducting water, in Roman times, usually built overground and supported on arches

Answer 1

Aqueduct

Question 2

Open entrance or central hall of an ancient Roman house

Answer 2

Atrium

Question 3

Barn-like building form, central long space flanked by side aisles

Answer 3

Basilica

Question 4

Indian (Bengali) word for single-story house with veranda

Answer 4

Bungalow

Question 5

A carving and relief upon a gem, stone, or shell

Answer 5

Cameo

Question 6

Abstract monument to a person buried elsewhere: Washington Monument

Answer 6

Cenotaph

Question 7

Painting term, the opposition of light and dark

Answer 7

Chiaroscuro

Question 8

Gothic tracery pattern, reminiscent of a five-leaf clover

Answer 8

Cinquefoil

Question 9

Circle of standing unhewn stones: Stonehenge

Answer 9

Cromlech

Question 10

total rejection of established laws and institutions.
2.
anarchy, terrorism, or other revolutionary activity.
3.
total and absolute destructiveness, especially toward the world at large and including oneself: the power-mad nihilism that marked Hitler’s last years.

Answer 10

Nihi

Question 11

pertaining to, involving, or concerned with pure emotion and sensation as opposed to pure intellectuality.

Answer 11

Aesthetic

Question 12

Crossing sets of parallel lines to produce the effect of shading

Answer 12

Crosshatching

Question 13

Print made by incising a design onto a copper plate, inking the plate, wiping off the excess ink, and pressing the plate onto a moistened piece of paper

Answer 13

Engraving

Question 14

Front or principal face of the building

Answer 14

Façade

Question 15

In drawing, painting, the object seems to recede in space and conveys the illusion of three dimensions

Answer 15

Foreshortening

Question 16

Painting on wet plaster with watercolors, so plaster absorbs colors and the paining becomes part of the wall

Answer 16

Fresco

Question 17

Painting on dry plaster, less durable as the paint tends to flake off over time

Answer 17

Fresco Secco

Question 18

Roof spout in the shape of a grotesque human or animal figure, e.g. on the Notre Dame Cathedral

Answer 18

Gargoyle

Question 19

Scenes from everyday life for their own sake, usually with no religious or symbolic significance

Answer 19

Genre painting

Question 20

In drawing or engraving, use of parallel lines to produce the effect of shading

Answer 20

Hatching

Question 21

Characters in the picture-writing system of ancient Egyptians

Answer 21

Hieroglyphs

Question 22

In the style of ancient Egyptian temple architecture, Hall of many columns, e.g. Parthenon in Athens

Answer 22

Hypostyle

Question 23

Decorating manuscripts, scrolls, with illustrations or designs of gold, silver, or bright colors

Answer 23

Iluminacion

Question 24

Print made by drawing with a crayon on a porous stone or metal plate, applying greasy printing ink which adheres only to the lines of the drawing, and pressing the plate on a moistened piece of paper

Answer 24

Lithograph

Question 25

Monuments made partially or wholly of giant stones

Answer 25

Megalithic architecture

Question 26

Surface decoration in which bits of colored stone or glass are laid in cement in a design or decorative pattern

Answer 26

Mosaic

Question 27

A tapering four- sided shaft of stone, usually monolithic, with a pyramidal apex, used as a freestanding monument, as in ancient Egypt, or as an architectural decoration

Answer 27

Obelisk

Question 28

Representation of three-dimensional objects on a flat surface so as to produce the same impression of distance and relative size as that received by the human

Answer 28

Perspective

Question 29

Sculpture that is not freestanding but projects from the background of which it is a part, can be high relief or low relief depending on the amount of projection; incised relief is when the background is not cut out, as in some Egyptian architecture

Answer 29

Relief

Question 30

Method of representing light and shade by the use of dots in painting, drawing, and engraving

Answer 30

Stippling

Question 31

Widely used in Italian panel painting before the 16th century, ground colors mixed with yolk of egg, instead of oil

Answer 31

Tempera

Question 32

Altarpiece or devotional picture consisting of three panels joined together, frequently changed, so that the center panel is covered when the side panels are closed

Answer 32

Triptych

Question 33

Print made by cutting a design in relief on a block of wood and printing only the raised surfaces

Answer 33

Woodcut

Question 34

Tiered, truncated pyramid of mud brick

Answer 34

Ziggurat