HUMANITIES REVIEWER

1. It is the carving, modeling, casting, constructing and assembling of materials and objects
into primarily three-dimensional works of art.
2. It is also called The Round. Characterized by the persistence of space on all sides,
except on the base, therefore the viewers may go around the artwork.
3. The figures or images projected to varying degrees from a two-dimensional plane like in
a piece of wood or a slab of marble.
4. If the image doesnt project extensively from the surface, then it is called
______________.
5. By contrast, figures project dramatically from the plane of the relief, so much that they
barely seem attached to the background.
6. The elimination of parts of material to create.
7. Creating a sculpture by constructing, attaching and reconfiguring materials together.
8. Production of sculpture when liquid material is poured into the mold.
9. A demanding technique that requires intense physical labor in which the sculptor starts
with a block of material and cuts portions away until he achieve the desired shape.
10. It is where the artist may manipulate the material by hand and use a variety of tools.
Materials used are soft and impermanent like in the wax and unbaked-clay.
11. It refers to a catchall category that describes constructions & assemblages in w/c artists
use a combination of mediums and materials such as found objects.
12. It is built from an assortment of materials pieces of wood, sheet of metal, wires, found
objects, or just about anything.
13. It incorporates actual movement caused by wind, magnetic fields, jets of water, or the
active manipulation of the audience.
14. It is a form of constructed sculpture in which pre-existing or found objects integrated and
combined in new combinations that take a meaning of their own or separate from their
constituent part creating a piece.
15. This is an extremely hard, earthen material that can be carved, scraped, drilled, and
polished.
16. __________ is the most popular type of stone used by the Greeks.
17. This is a naturally occurring material more pliable than that of stone or wood.
18. It may be carved using a variety of tools and possesses different degrees of hardness that
greatly affects its workability and durability.
19. The process of casting _________ such as bronze, gold, silver, or iron has changed over
the centuries. It is sculpted by welding, riveting, and soldering.
20. ___________ Sculpture may be the oldest of the visual arts.
21. It was recently identified as the oldest sculpture in existence named after Venus, the
Roman goddess of beauty.
22. He found the sculpture in no. 21.
23. It was based on the belief of life after death.
24. Around 600 B.C. ___________ developed one of the great civilizations in the history of
the world.
25. Sculpture became one of the most important forms of expression for the _____________.
26. The ____________ was the principal subject of all Greek art.
27. A standing figure of a nude male developed by the Greeks is called __________.
28. A standing figure of a draped female, was more graceful and used to portray goddesses.
29. The winged female figure that became the personification of victory.
30. The change from ________ to ________ took place on the Greek period.

31. Many small bronze of farmers, warriors, or gods show the great talents of the _________
as metalworkers and sculptors.
32. It is the most important contributions of the Roman sculptors.
33. ____________ profited from the double artistic inheritance of Greek and Etruscan
sculpture.
34. By the 7th and 6th centuries B.C., the Etruscans were firmly settled in __________.
35. Its development was the reverse of the Greek sculpture.
36. It resembled the art of Rome.
37. Burial chests found in Italy which are all Roman in type.
38. Their art consisted mainly of complex patterns and shapes used for decoration.
39. The term that suggests the Roman qualities of the art of the 11th and 12th centuries.
40. The bronze doors of the _________________ have ten panels with scenes from the Bible.
41. Under the period of _______________, artists worked on a bolder and larger scale than
had been possible for a hundred of years.
42. Sculpture after the 12th century gradually changed from clear, concentrated abstractions
of Romanesque art to a more natural and lifelike appearance.
43. Gothic sculptors gained _____________ and _______________
44. Hundreds of carvings in the great Gothic cathedrals all over _____________ presented
aspects of the Christian faith in terms that every Christian could understand.
45. It had been the heart of the Roman Empire.
46. Also the term for rebirth.
47. As early as the 13th century, the ____________ planted the seeds of a new age.
48. The most significant change in art that occurred in the Renaissance period.
49. The sculptor who created the first freestanding nude since classical times, a bronze figure
of David. He clearly understood the whole anatomy of the figure so well.
50.