Study Guide: Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassical and Romantic

Know the following terms/concepts: Neo-Classicism, Rococo, Baroque, Romanticism, Academie des Beaux-Arts, Neo-Palladianism, Federal Style, Cupola, Calvinism, Caravaggism, The Dutch Golden Age, Chiaroscuro, Reformation and Counter-Reformation, Council of Trent, Still Life, Churrigueresque, Cartouche, Protestantism, French Revolution, Camera Obscura, The Sublime, Stoicism, The Enlightenment, Gothic Revival.
Know the following buildings:  Chiswick House, University of Virginia, Monticello, St. Paul’s Cathedral (London), Melk Monastery, The Palace of Versailles. 
Know the following artists/architects/historical figures: Anthony van Dyck, Rembrandt van Rijn, Michelangelo Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, Johannes Vermeer, Jacques Louis David, Francisco Goya, Thomas Jefferson,Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez, Martin Luther, Henri Fuseli, Caspar David Friedrich, William Adolphe Bougereau, Piranesi, Honore Fragonard, and Francois Boucher.

Know the following paintings/works:

Renaissance Study Guide

Know the following terms/concepts: contraposto, mannerism, oil painting, watercolor painting, Renaissance (definition), Palladianism, perspective, symmetry vs. asymmetry, compare/contrast Northern and Italian Renaissances, photo-realism, Renaissance aesthetics, sfumato, triptych, fresco, altar-piece, momento mori, central-plan building.
Know the following buildings:  Florence Cathedral (The Duomo), St. Peter's Basilica, Villa Rotunda, Palazzo Farnese, The Sistine Chapel.
Know the following artists/architects: Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Sandro Botticelli, Parmegiano, Agnolo Bronzino, Albrecht Durer, Andrea Palladio, Brunelleschi, Hieronymous Bosch, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Domenikos Theotokopoulos ("El Greco").

Test One Study Guide

Know the following terms:
Corbeled arch, colonnade, column (capital, shaft, base), mastaba, ziggurat, pyramid, step pyramid, cuneiform, cyclopean masonry, post and lintel, menhir, fresco, bas-relief, sunken relief, sculpture in the round, stele (stela), hieroglyphics, "beehive" tomb, megaron, acropolis, necropolis, mesopotamia, prehistory, history, and civilization.
Know the following works of art/buildings:
Venus of Willendorf, Stonehenge, Skara Brae house, Lascaux Cave (Hall of Bulls), Horse and Sun Chariot, Ziggurat of Ur, Stela of Hammurabi, Ishtar Gate, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, The Great Pyramid at Giza, The Sphinx, The Stepped Pyramid of Djoser, Temple of Hatshepsut, Temple of Amun at Karnak, Temples at Abu Simbel, Nefetari and Isis, The Bust of Nefertiti, Akhenaton and Nefertiti (Akhenaton and His Family), The Palace of Knossos, Three Queens (Knossos), Lion Gate at Mycenae, Treasury of Atreus, Mask of Agamemnon, Stela of Narim-Sin, Lion Gate of Hattusa, and Cyclopean Architecture at Tiryns.
Know the following people:
Imhotep, Khufu, Akhenaton, Nefertiti, Hammurabi, Sir Arthur Evans, and Heinrich Schliemann.
Know the following historical periods:
Prehistory, Paleolithic, Neolithic, Old and New Kingdom Egypt, Sumeria, Babylon, Minoan civilization, and Mycenaean civilization.

The Sphinx and Pyramids

Stonehenge

Corbeled Arch

Fruitland art historians learn the architectural technique known as corbeling.  This prehistoric technique allowed for not only protection from the elements and a sense of permanency, but also served as a functional beginning for architecture as we know it.  Like their prehistoric ancestors, these art historians utilize the building materials at hand: Mr. Wickersham's literature books!