🖼ap art history review

Panel painting

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

A painting executed on a wooden panel, often commissioned as a devotional or commemorative work for religious or domestic contexts.

AP course connection

Topic 3.4: 3.4 Purpose and Audience in Early European and Colonial American Art

Unit 3