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- abbess
- abbey
- abbot
- abstract art
- academy
- acanthus
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- acrylic
- action painting
- adobe
- aerial perspective
- agora
- ahu ‘ula
- airbrush
- akua’ba
- alabaster
- alabastron
- albumen print
- alla prima
- allegory
- altarpiece
- ambo
- ambulatory
- amorino
- amphitheater
- amphora
- amulet
- analogous colors
- anamorphosis
- animal interlace
- animal style
- ankh
- antefix
- apadana
- apocrypha
- apodyterium
- apotheosis
- apotropaic
- appliqué
- appropriation
- apse
- aquamanile
- aquatint
- aqueduct
- arabesque
- arcade
- arch
- architrave
- archivolts
- armature
- artist’s proof
- aryballos
- ashlar
- assemblage
- atelier
- atlas
- atmospheric perspective
- atrium
- attribute
- aureole
- automatism
- avant-garde
- axial plan
- baldachin
- baluster
- balustrade
- baptismal font
- baptistery
- barkcloth
- barrel vault
- bas-de-page
- basilica
- batik
- battlement
- bay
- bay window
- bead and reel
- beaker
- beehive tomb
- belvedere
- Ben-Day dots
- bestiary
- bichrome
- bilingual vase
- biomorphic
- biscuit
- bisque
- black-figure technique
- black-on-black ware
- blind arcade
- blue-and-white wares
- bodhisattva
- bole
- book of hours
- boss
- bow window
- bracket
- brayer
- breviary
- bucchero
- bucranium
- buon fresco
- burin
- bust
- buttress
- caftan
- caldarium
- calligraphy
- calotype
- cameo
- camera obscura
- cames
- campanile
- canon of proportions
- canopic jars
- cantilever
- capital
- capriccio
- capstone
- caravansaray
- carbon-14 dating
- caricature
- carmine
- carpet page
- carta pesta
- cartellino
- cartoon
- cartouche
- caryatid
- cassone
- catacomb
- catalogue raisonné
- cathedra
- cathedral
- celadon
- cella
- cenotaph
- centering
- central plan
- chacmool
- chaitya hall
- chalice
- champlevé
- chancel
- chapter house
- chasing
- chasuble
- château
- chatra
- chattri
- cherubim
- chevron
- chi-rho
- chiaroscuro
- chinoiserie
- chiton
- choir
- chrismon
- christogram
- chryselephantine
- ciborium
- cinerary urn
- cinnabar
- cipollino
- circumambulation
- cire-perdue
- cista
- clerestory
- cloisonné
- cloister
- codex
- coffers
- collage
- colonnade
- colonnette
- colophon
- colossal order
- column
- combine
- complementary colors
- composite order
- composite pose
- composition
- conceptual art
- concrete
- cong
- connoisseur
- conservator
- Conté crayon
- continuous narrative
- contrapposto
- convention
- cope
- corbel
- corbeled arch
- corbeled dome
- Corinthian order
- cornice
- Cosmati work
- counterchange
- craquelure
- crenellation
- cross vault
- crosshatching
- crossing
- crozier
- cruciform
- crypt
- cubiculum
- cuerda seca
- cuneiform
- cupola
- curtain wall
- cyclopean masonry
- cyclorama
- cylinder seal
- dado
- daga
- daguerreotype
- daka
- damnatio memoriae
- dealer
- deconstruction
- découpage
- dendrochronology
- dentils
- desco da parto
- dharma
- digital photography
- diptych
- direct painting
- divisionism
- dolmen
- dome
- donor
- Doric order
- dreamings
- drollery
- drum
- dry landscape garden
- drypoint
- earth art
- earthenware
- earthwork
- eclectic
- effigy mounds
- egg and dart
- electrum
- elevation
- emblema
- embrasure
- embroidery
- enamel
- enamel paint
- encaustic
- engaged column
- engraving
- entablature
- entasis
- environmental art
- etching
- ex voto
- exedra
- exemplum virtutis
- expressionism
- façade
- faience
- fan vault
- fang ding
- fantastic art
- festoon
- fête galante
- fibula
- figured capital
- filigree
- finial
- fleur-de-lis
- flutes
- flying buttress
- folio
- foreshortening
- forum
- Fourmile polychrome
- fresco
- fresco secco
- frieze
- frigidarium
- frit
- fritware
- frottage
- gable
- gallery
- gargoyle
- gelatin silver process
- genre painting
- geoglyph
- gesso
- giant order
- giornata di lavoro
- glaze
- glazing
- gorgoneion
- gouache
- graffiti art
- granulation
- Greek cross
- Greek key
- grisaille
- groin vault
- grotesque
- groundline
- guild
- guilloche
- haggadah
- hajj
- half-column
- handscroll
- haniwa
- happening
- harmika
- hatching
- henge
- herm
- hexastyle
- hierarchic scale
- hieroglyphics
- highlight
- himation
- historiated capital
- historiated initial
- honeycomb vaulting
- horseshoe arch
- huipil
- humanism
- hydria
- hypocaust
- hypostyle
- icon
- iconoclasm
- iconography
- iconostasis
- idealization
- ignudi
- illuminated manuscript
- impasto
- impluvium
- impost block
- infrared reflectography
- installation
- intaglio
- intarsia
- Ionic order
- Italo-Byzantine style
- iwan
- Iznik ware
- ka
- kachina
- kaftan
- kantharos
- karma
- karyatid
- katsina
- keel arch
- keep
- kente
- keystone
- khipu
- kiln
- kimono
- kitsch
- kiva
- kondo
- kore
- kouros
- krater
- kufic
- kylix
- lacquer
- laid paper
- lakshanas
- lamassu
- lancet window
- land art
- landscape
- lantern
- lapis lazuli
- lectionary
- lekythos
- levigation
- libation
- lierne vault
- linear perspective
- linocut
- lintel
- lithograph
- loculus
- loggia
- loom
- loophole
- lost-wax method
- lotus
- lukasa
- lunette
- luster
- madrasa
- maestà
- mahiole
- mahlstick
- maiolica
- malagan
- mandala
- mandorla
- manga
- maniera greca
- manuscript
- maqsura
- maquette
- marquetry
- mashrabiya
- masjid
- mastaba
- matte
- maulstick
- mausoleum
- meander
- medallion
- medium
- megalith
- megaron
- memento mori
- memory board
- menhir
- menorah
- merlon
- metope
- mezzotint
- mihrab
- milagro
- millefiore
- mina’i
- minaret
- minbar
- miniature
- mirador
- missal
- moai
- mobile
- modeling
- module
- molding
- monochrome
- monolithic
- monotype
- monstrance
- mortise and tenon
- mosaic
- mosque
- motif
- mudbrick
- mudra
- mullion
- muqarnas
- mural
- naos
- narthex
- naturalism
- nave
- necropolis
- negative space
- nemes
- niello
- nimbus
- nirvana
- non-objective art
- nonrepresentational art
- obelisk
- obsidian
- ocher
- octastyle
- oculus
- odalisque
- oeuvre
- oil paint
- oinochoe
- olpe
- onyx
- opisthodomos
- opus anglicanum
- opus reticulatum
- opus sectile
- opus vermiculatum
- orant
- oratory
- orchestra
- order
- outsider art
- pagoda
- palaestra
- palette
- palette knife
- palimpsest
- palmette
- panel painting
- pantokrator
- papier mâché
- papyrus
- parchment
- parfleche
- pastel
- paten
- patera
- patina
- pattern
- pebble mosaic
- pediment
- pendant
- pendentive
- pentimento
- peplos
- performance art
- peripteral
- peristyle
- pewter
- photogram
- photogravure
- photomontage
- photorealism
- pier
- pietà
- pietra dura
- pigment
- pilaster
- pilgrimage
- pilotis
- pinnacle
- pishtaq
- pithos
- platinotype
- platinum print
- plein-air
- plinth
- podium
- pointing machine
- polychrome
- polyptych
- polyrhythm
- porcelain
- porphyry
- portico
- portrait
- potter’s wheel
- pouncing
- power figure
- predella
- printmaking
- pronaos
- protome
- provenance
- psalter
- pseudoperipteral
- pueblo
- pulpit
- putti
- pylon
- pyxis
- radiocarbon dating
- raffia
- raku
- rayograph
- readymade
- rebar
- recto
- red-figure technique
- refectory
- register
- reinforced concrete
- relative scale
- relic
- relief sculpture
- reliquary
- repoussé
- reredos
- retable
- retouching
- revetment
- rhyton
- rib vault
- ribbon window
- ridgepole
- rock crystal
- roof comb
- rose window
- rosette
- rotunda
- roundel
- runes
- rusticated masonry
- sacra conversazione
- sacramentary
- sacristy
- salon
- Samarqand ware
- sarcophagus
- sardonyx
- saz
- scale
- scarab
- scarification
- screen print
- scriptorium
- scumbling
- semidome
- serdab
- serigraphy
- serpentine
- sfumato
- sgraffito
- shibori
- shofar
- silkscreen
- silverpoint
- sinopia
- situla
- size
- skylight
- slip
- soapstone
- soffit
- spandrel
- sphinx
- spolia
- squinch
- stained glass
- stalactite vaulting
- steatite
- stela
- stellar vault
- stigmata
- still life
- stoa
- stonepaste
- stoneware
- street art
- stretcher
- stringcourse
- strip window
- stucco
- stupa
- stylobate
- stylus
- sublime
- sunken relief
- super-realism
- surah
- sutra
- swag
- synagogue
- synoptic narrative
- tabernacle
- tablinum
- talud-tablero
- tangent buttress
- tapa
- tapestry
- tartan
- tell
- temenos
- tempera
- tenebrism
- tenon
- tepidarium
- terra sigillata
- terracotta
- tessellation
- tesserae
- thangka
- thermoluminescence dating
- tholos tomb
- throwing
- tile mosaic
- tintype
- tiraz
- toga
- tondo
- Torah
- torana
- torii
- totem pole
- tracery
- transept
- transformation mask
- travertine
- trefoil
- tribune
- triclinium
- triforium
- triglyph
- trilithon
- triptych
- triumphal arch
- trompe l’oeil
- tronie
- trumeau
- truss
- tufa
- tughra
- tumulus
- tunnel vault
- Tuscan order
- tusche
- twisted perspective
- tympanum
- value
- vanishing point
- vanitas
- vault
- veduta
- velarium
- vellum
- verde antico
- verdigris
- verism
- vermillion
- verso
- vestments
- volutes
- votive
- voussoir
Thanks ;0.
Hello, Lloyd. Hope you classes are going well!
Dear Dr. Terry,
Thank you for sharing the Art History Glossary. I will use it with my AP students.
Marcia
Hope your students like it! Please let me know if you spot any dead links.
–Jim Terry
Plan to share this with my AP Art History class
Please do! Hope it’s useful. –Jim Terry