AP Art History Unit One

Ms. Feury (United States of America)
Unit 1 Vocabulary Words
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  1. fact
    a piece of information about events that have occurred
  2. patron
    someone who supports or champions something
  3. function
    what something is used for
  4. monumental
    imposing in size or bulk or solidity
  5. representation
    a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something
  6. enigma
    something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
  7. bulbous
    rounded and bulging
  8. pigment
    dry coloring material
  9. post and lintel
    a structure consisting of vertical beams (posts) supporting a horizontal beam (lintel)
  10. theocracy
    a political unit governed by a deity
  11. polytheism
    belief in multiple gods
  12. votive
    dedicated in fulfillment of a vow
  13. surrogate
    someone or something that takes the place of another
  14. reverential
    feeling or manifesting profound respect or awe
  15. stele
    an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings
  16. bas relief
    sculpture that projects only slightly from the background
  17. high relief
    a sculptural relief in which forms extend out from the background to at least half their depth
  18. citadel
    a stronghold for shelter during a battle
  19. apadana
    the great hall in ancient Persian palaces
  20. mummification
    the act of embalming, drying, and wrapping a dead body
  21. bilateral symmetry
    the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane
  22. scribe
    someone employed to make written copies of documents
  23. dynasty
    a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family
  24. Horus
    Egyptian solar god with the head of a falcon
  25. mastabah
    an ancient Egyptian mud-brick tomb with a rectangular base and sloping sides and flat roof
  26. Re
    ancient Egyptian sun god with the head of a hawk
  27. Sphinx
    (Greek mythology) a riddling winged monster with a woman's head and breast on a lion's body; daughter of Typhon
  28. colonnade
    structure consisting of a row of evenly spaced columns
  29. colossal
    so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe
  30. bilateral symmetry
    the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane
  31. causeway
    a road that is raised above water, marshland, or sand
  32. dynasty
    a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family
  33. clerestory
    part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light
  34. monotheism
    belief in a single God
  35. polytheism
    belief in multiple gods
  36. Aton
    the sun (or solar disc) which was the deity of a monotheistic cult under the Pharaoh Akhenaten
  37. Osiris
    Egyptian god of the underworld and judge of the dead
Created on Sun Sep 01 13:18:45 EDT 2013

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