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Art History Key Works and Terms

Famous artworks, movements and the vocabulary used to discuss them.

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  • Lascaux cave paintingsWork or term
    Prehistoric animal paintings in France
  • StonehengeWork or term
    Prehistoric stone circle in England
  • Great Sphinx of GizaWork or term
    Monumental Egyptian statue with a lion's body and human head
  • Great Pyramid of KhufuWork or term
    Egyptian Old Kingdom tomb, built around 2550 BCE
  • Palette of NarmerWork or term
    Early Egyptian carved palette showing unification of the land
  • Bust of NefertitiWork or term
    Painted limestone portrait from Amarna Egypt
  • Ziggurat of UrWork or term
    Stepped temple platform in Mesopotamia
  • Code of Hammurabi steleWork or term
    Babylonian stone slab carved with laws
  • ParthenonWork or term
    5th-century BCE Greek temple to Athena in Athens
  • Doric orderWork or term
    Simplest Greek column style, with a plain capital
  • Ionic orderWork or term
    Greek column with scroll-shaped capitals
  • Corinthian orderWork or term
    Greek column with leafy capitals
  • ContrappostoWork or term
    A pose with weight on one leg, creating a natural stance
  • DiscobolusWork or term
    Roman copy of a Greek bronze of a discus thrower
  • Venus de MiloWork or term
    Hellenistic marble statue of Aphrodite
  • PantheonWork or term
    Roman temple with a great dome and oculus
  • ColosseumWork or term
    Roman amphitheater for public spectacles
  • Arch of TitusWork or term
    Roman triumphal arch commemorating a victory
  • Pompeii frescoesWork or term
    Wall paintings preserved by volcanic ash
  • Hagia SophiaWork or term
    Sixth-century Byzantine church in Constantinople with a huge dome
  • MosaicWork or term
    Image made of small pieces of colored material
  • IconWork or term
    Sacred religious image used in Orthodox worship
  • RomanesqueWork or term
    Medieval style with round arches and thick walls
  • Gothic architectureWork or term
    Style with pointed arches, ribbed vaults and flying buttresses
  • Flying buttressWork or term
    External support that lets Gothic walls be tall and thin
  • Chartres CathedralWork or term
    Gothic cathedral famed for its stained glass
  • Stained glassWork or term
    Colored glass pieces set in lead to make pictures
  • Illuminated manuscriptWork or term
    Handwritten book decorated with gold and color
  • Book of KellsWork or term
    Irish illuminated gospel manuscript
  • GiottoWork or term
    Early Renaissance painter who gave figures weight and space
  • Linear perspectiveWork or term
    Technique using converging lines to show depth
  • Brunelleschi's domeWork or term
    Dome of Florence Cathedral completed in the 1400s
  • Donatello's DavidWork or term
    First freestanding nude bronze since antiquity
  • Botticelli's Birth of VenusWork or term
    Early Renaissance painting of the goddess arriving on a shell
  • Leonardo da VinciWork or term
    Painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper
  • Mona LisaWork or term
    Famed portrait with soft sfumato shading
  • SfumatoWork or term
    Soft blending of tones without hard outlines
  • Michelangelo's DavidWork or term
    Marble statue of the biblical hero, finished 1504
  • Sistine Chapel ceilingWork or term
    Michelangelo's fresco of scenes from Genesis
  • Raphael's School of AthensWork or term
    Fresco of ancient philosophers in an ideal building
  • ChiaroscuroWork or term
    Strong contrast of light and dark
  • FrescoWork or term
    Painting on wet plaster
  • TemperaWork or term
    Paint made with pigment and egg yolk
  • Oil paintingWork or term
    Painting with pigments in oil, allowing rich color and detail
  • Albrecht DurerWork or term
    German printmaker and painter of the Northern Renaissance
  • Jan van EyckWork or term
    Flemish painter known for precise oil detail, like the Arnolfini Portrait
  • MannerismWork or term
    Late Renaissance style with elongated forms
  • BaroqueWork or term
    Dramatic, ornate 17th-century style
  • CaravaggioWork or term
    Baroque painter famous for dramatic light
  • TenebrismWork or term
    Extreme use of dark and light, with deep shadows
  • Bernini's DavidWork or term
    Baroque sculpture capturing action mid-motion
  • RembrandtWork or term
    Dutch master of portraits and light
  • VermeerWork or term
    Dutch painter of quiet interior scenes, such as Girl with a Pearl Earring
  • Velazquez's Las MeninasWork or term
    Spanish court painting with layered viewpoints
  • Palace of VersaillesWork or term
    Ornate French royal palace
  • RococoWork or term
    Light, playful 18th-century style
  • NeoclassicismWork or term
    Style reviving ancient Greek and Roman forms
  • Jacques-Louis DavidWork or term
    French Neoclassical painter of The Death of Socrates
  • RomanticismWork or term
    Style emphasizing emotion, nature and imagination
  • Gericault's Raft of the MedusaWork or term
    Romantic painting of shipwreck survivors
  • GoyaWork or term
    Spanish painter and printmaker who depicted war and society
  • RealismWork or term
    Art showing ordinary life as it is
  • CourbetWork or term
    French Realist painter
  • ImpressionismWork or term
    Style capturing fleeting light with visible brushstrokes
  • Claude MonetWork or term
    Impressionist painter of Water Lilies and Impression, Sunrise
  • RenoirWork or term
    Impressionist known for scenes of social life
  • Post-ImpressionismWork or term
    Styles building on Impressionism with personal expression
  • Vincent van GoghWork or term
    Painted The Starry Night with swirling brushwork
  • Paul CezanneWork or term
    Post-Impressionist who built forms from geometry
  • Georges SeuratWork or term
    Pointillist painter of A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
  • PointillismWork or term
    Painting with tiny dots of color
  • Edvard MunchWork or term
    Norwegian painter of The Scream
  • Art NouveauWork or term
    Decorative style of flowing plant-like lines
  • FauvismWork or term
    Style using bold, wild color; Matisse led it
  • Henri MatisseWork or term
    French artist of The Dance and cut-outs
  • CubismWork or term
    Style showing objects from several viewpoints at once
  • Pablo PicassoWork or term
    Co-founder of Cubism; painted Guernica
  • FuturismWork or term
    Italian movement celebrating speed and machines
  • DadaWork or term
    Anti-art movement reacting to World War I
  • Marcel DuchampWork or term
    Dada artist who exhibited a ready-made urinal titled Fountain
  • SurrealismWork or term
    Movement exploring dreams and the unconscious
  • Salvador DaliWork or term
    Surrealist painter of The Persistence of Memory
  • Rene MagritteWork or term
    Surrealist painter of The Treachery of Images
  • Frida KahloWork or term
    Mexican painter known for symbolic self-portraits
  • Abstract ExpressionismWork or term
    Postwar American style of large, gestural abstraction
  • Jackson PollockWork or term
    Drip painter
  • Mark RothkoWork or term
    Painter of floating fields of color
  • Pop ArtWork or term
    Style using imagery from popular culture
  • Andy WarholWork or term
    Pop artist known for Campbell's Soup Cans
  • MinimalismWork or term
    Art reduced to simple geometric forms
  • Installation artWork or term
    Art that transforms a space
  • Performance artWork or term
    Art in which the artist's actions are the work
  • BauhausWork or term
    German school combining art, craft and design
  • FallingwaterWork or term
    Frank Lloyd Wright's house built over a waterfall
  • Guggenheim BilbaoWork or term
    Frank Gehry's curving titanium-clad museum
  • Ukiyo-eWork or term
    Japanese woodblock prints of the 'floating world'
  • Hokusai's Great WaveWork or term
    Famous Japanese woodblock print of a towering wave
  • Taj MahalWork or term
    17th-century marble tomb in India built by Shah Jahan
  • Angkor WatWork or term
    Temple complex in Cambodia
  • Great Mosque of CordobaWork or term
    Spanish mosque known for its striped arches

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