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🎨Art History I – Prehistory to Middle Ages
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122 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Art History I – Prehistory to Middle Ages exam

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A

Abstract Form
Abu Simbel
Aesthetic ideals
Afterlife
Akkadian Art
Akkadian influence
Alcuin of York
Amarna Style
Ancestor Worship
André Leroi-Gourhan
Animal motifs
Anthropoid Coffins

B

Banquet scene
Barberini ivory
Block statues
Book of Durrow
Bronze casting
Bull-leaping
Burial Mound

C

Canopic jars
Cardial Pottery
Cathedrals
Centauromachy
Chartres Cathedral Reliefs
Chauvet Cave
Chip carving
Clay figurines
Coffin Texts
Colonnade
Color theory
Commemorative art
Cross-in-square church plan

D

Daphni Monastery
Domus
Doric Column

E

Elamite Motifs
Engraving

F

Figural composition
Fired bricks
First Intermediate Period
Flashed glass
Font-de-gaume
Fourth Dynasty

G

Gilding
Glazed brick
Godescalc Evangelistary
Gold leaf burnishing
Gothic script
Göbekli Tepe

H

Hand stencils
Hunting magic
Hunting scenes

I

Inlay Work
Interlace patterns
Iron casting

K

Kore figures
Kritios Boy

L

Lamassu
Lascaux Caves
Last judgment
Lectionaries
Liturgical books
Low relief

M

Mandorla
Mesolithic art
Middle geometric period
Middle Kingdom Pottery
Middle Kingdom Sculpture
Middle Paleolithic
Mother Goddess Representations
Mud bricks

N

Narrative cycles
Narrative sequences
Natural pigments
Newgrange