Art&architecture4 Crossword
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2) A copy, exact in all details.3) A porch with a roof, supported by columns, leading to a building’s
entrance.4) The part of the picture that seems to be farthest from the viewer.5) The long, pointed, topmost part rising from a tower, turret, or roof.7) Basic components of art: line, space, shape, value, color, texture.9) A picture or design comprising tiny pieces of stone, glass, or tile set
in a matrix.11) In a work of art, the relationship in size of one component to another.12) A technique that creates a sense of receding space.13) Design concept #4. The graceful arrangements of elements of a building,
due to the elements’ symmetria.15) In Eastern Christian churches, a partition with icons, that separates the sanctuary from the main body of the church.16) In the floor plan of a medieval church, the cross aisle between the apse and the nave.17) A hemispherical ceiling over a building.18) A statue of the human body without head and limbs.19) Branch of philosophy dealing with the nature and appreciation of beauty.20) Sculpted, cast, or carved three-dimensional persons or animals.21) c. 1800s, a style counterbalancing neoclassical reason with dramatic
subjects and brilliant colors. Notables: Delacroix, Turner.23) A mass of masonry that braces against the lateral thrust of an arch or a vault.24) Usually a wall hanging, a textile with a handwoven design or scene.26) A principle of design referring to a structure’s equilibrium between
opposing elements, for example, between unity and variety.28) 17th-cent. movement that sought drama, contrast of light. Notables:
Bernini, Caravaggio, Carracci, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velasquez.29) Art of the Mideast c. 330–1450, mostly panels, mosaics, and manuscripts.30) The technique of shortening or lengthening proportions to increase
the illusion of depth.31) An open public place in a town or city, especially in Italy.34) A coffin, usually stone, often decorated with carvings or inscriptions.35) A bell tower, usually near a church.38) An image incised in rock, especially by Neolithic people.42) Late 19th-century school of painting, inspired especially by the vibrant lights and colors in nature. Notables: Degas, Monet, Renoir.43) A splayed aperture in a wall that frames a window or doorway.44) A painting with natural elements: mountains, trees, rivers, etc.47) The technique of painting on dry or wet plaster.48) Art seeking to look truly like what it is representing.49) Moving cartoons.50) The style of a building.52) A decorative canopy over a tomb, throne, or altar.54) Design concept #6. Managing construction expenses and designing
with owners’ economic means in mind.56) Small decorative feature at the top of a pinnacle.57) Covered walkways surrounding a monastic quadrangle.58) Period of art and learning during the reign of Charlemagne.59) A court enclosed on all sides by columns.63) Along the front of a fortification, a defensive wall of earth or stone.64) Design concept #1. Determination of incremental units of measurement for a structure.65) A terraced pyramid.68) A building of axial plan, adopted by Christian church architects.69) Finely powdered natural or synthetic color material that becomes paint, ink, or dye when mixed with oil or water.74) Small tower on top a building.75) Surface artwork directly on a wall.76) An arched roof made of a masonry material.77) The lightness or darkness of a color.84) The attribute of color that allows for classification as red, yellow, blue, or a variation. |
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1) The crowning projection on an entablature.6) A tower atop a church.8) The place at which the viewer’s attention centers in an artwork’s
composition.10) Housing the main altar, the semicircular or polygonal extension of a
church.14) Using light and shadow to create the illusion of a three-dimensional solid form on a two-dimensional surface.18) Semicircular area between a doorway’s lintel and the arch above.22) Design concept #3. The refined effect of a structure, in light of its purpose.23) Painting or sculpture of a person’s head, neck, upper chest, and shoulders.25) The embankment surrounding a fort.27) A person highly skilled in mechanical drawing.32) A painting or carving with three side- by-side hinged panels.33) c. 1750s, a revival of Greco-Roman art. Notables: Canova, David.36) Indiscriminate demolition of towns’ and cities’ buildings.37) A decorated horizontal band along a wall or on a building.39) The central, highest stone in an arch.40) On Gothic cathedrals, a sculpture of a frightening creature, whose open mouth sometimes acts as a rainspout.41) A manuscript, especially of the Middle Ages, with highly ornamented initial letters.45) 16th-century touchstone era of Western art. Notables: da Vinci, Holbein, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian.46) Regarded as an object of veneration, a panel with a picture of a sanctified
personage.51) Surrounded by a row of columns.53) As in curtains or a costume in an artwork, cloth or a representation of
cloth, arranged to hang in folds.55) Imitation of the art of ancient Greece and Rome that idealized harmony, restraint, balance, and simplicity.57) A portrait that deliberately exaggerates the subject’s distinctive features to produce a sarcastic or comic effect.60) The part of a church where sung prayer is offered.61) Representation of an abstract or inanimate thing with human qualities.62) Design concept #2. Proper arrangement of the smaller areas in proportion to overall dimensions.66) A painting, often a triptych, above and behind an altar.67) An architect’s most useful tool, for ruling parallel lines.70) 1st-century master architect under Julius Caesar and Augustus.71) Supporting the entablature, the portion of a column above the shaft.72) To hold a physical attitude for an artistic purpose.73) c. 12th–16th centuries, more linear, elegant artworks than previously in Europe. Notables: Giotto, Jan van Eyck.78) Style of 20th-century art concerned with fragmentation and multiple
viewpoints. Notables: Braque, Picasso.79) The stonework that helps support the stained glass of a window.80) The length of a bridge across a waterway.81) Resting on the capitals, the upper section of a classical building.82) Visual perception of a surface’s reflection or absorption of light.83) The overhanging lower edge of a roof.85) A scale drawing of the front, side, or rear of a building.86) A painting that communicates a likeness of a person or a group.87) A strong grating that slid in the grooves of a gateway, especially of a medieval castle.88) The late 11th-century style of complex and ornamented artworks. |
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