abbess
abbey
abbot
abstract art
Abstract Expressionism
académie
academy
acanthus
acropolis
acroteria
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
antimony yellow
apadana
apocrypha
apodyterium
apotheosis
apotropaic
appliqué
appropriation
apse
aquamanile
aquatint
aqueduct
arabesque
arcade
arch
architrave
archivolts
armature
Arretine ware
Art Brut
Art Deco
Art Nouveau
artist’s proof
Arts and Crafts
aryballos
Ashcan School
ashlar
assemblage
atelier
atlas
atmospheric perspective
atrium
attribute
attribution
aureole
automatism
avant-garde
axial plan
axonometric projection
bacchante
baldachin
baluster
balustrade
baptismal font
baptistery
Barbizon School
barkcloth
barrel vault
bas-de-page
basilica
batik
battlement
Bauhaus
bay
bay window
bead and reel
beaker
beehive tomb
belvedere
Ben-Day dots
bestiary
beveled style
bichrome
bilingual vase
biomorphic
biscuit
bisque
black-figure technique
black-on-black ware
blind arcade
Blue Rider
blue-and-white wares
bodhisattva
boiserie
bole
bone black
book of hours
boss
bow window
bracket
brayer
breviary
bucchero
bucranium
buon fresco
burin
bust
buttress
caftan
cage cup
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
cavetto
celadon
cella
cenotaph
centering
central plan
chacmool
chaitya hall
chalice
champlevé
chancel
chapter house
chasing
chasuble
château
chatra
chattri
cherubim
chevron
chiaroscuro
chinoiserie
chi-rho
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
Constructivism
Conté crayon
continuous narrative
contrapposto
convention
conversation piece
cope
corbel
corbeled arch
corbeled dome
Corinthian order
cornice
Cosmati work
counterchange
craquelure
crazing
crenellation
cross vault
crosshatching
crossing
crozier
cruciform
crypt
cubiculum
Cubism
cuerda seca
cuneiform
cupola
curtain wall
cyclopean masonry
cyclorama
cylinder seal
Dada
dado
daga
daguerreotype
daka
damnatio memoriae
De Stijl
dealer
death mask
deconstruction
découpage
deesis
dendrochronology
dentils
desco da parto
dharma
diaper
Die Brücke
digital photography
diptych
direct painting
divisionism
dolmen
dome
donor
Doric order
dreamings
drollery
dromos
drum
dry landscape garden
drypoint
earth art
earthenware
earthwork
echorché
eclectic
effigy mounds
egg and dart
ekphrasis
electrum
elevation
emblema
embrasure
embroidery
enamel
enamel paint
encaustic
engaged column
engraving
entablature
entasis
environmental art
etching
ewer
ex voto
exedra
exemplum virtutis
expressionism
extrados
façade
faience
fan vault
fang ding
fantastic art
Fauves
femmage
festoon
fête galante
fibula
figured capital
filigree
finial
fleur-de-lis
flutes
Fluxus
flying buttress
folio
foreshortening
forum
Fourmile polychrome
fresco
fresco secco
frieze
frigidarium
frit
fritware
frottage
Futurism
gable
gallery
gargoyle
gelatin silver process
genre painting
geoglyph
gesso
giant order
gilding
giornata di lavoro
gisant
glaze
glazing
golden ratio
gorgoneion
gouache
graffiti art
granulation
graphite
Greek cross
Greek key
grisaille
groin vault
grotesque
groundline
Guerrilla Girls
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
Hudson River School
huipil
humanism
hydria
hypocaust
hypostyle
icon
iconoclasm
iconography
iconostasis
idealization
ignudi
illuminated manuscript
impasto
impluvium
impost block
Impressionism
infrared reflectography
installation
intaglio
intarsia
International Style
intrados
Ionic order
Italo-Byzantine style
iwan
Iznik ware
jade
jali
jamb
japonisme
joined-wood sculpture
ka
kachina
kaftan
Kakiemon
kantharos
karma
karyatid
katsina
keel arch
keep
kente
keyhole arch
keystone
khipu
kiln
kimono
kitsch
kiva
kondo
kore
kouros
krater
Kubachi ware
kufic
kylix
lacquer
laid paper
lakshanas
lamassu
lamentation
lancet window
land art
landscape
lantern
lapis lazuli
lararium
lead white
lectionary
lekythos
levigation
libation
lierne vault
life mask
linear perspective
linocut
lintel
lithograph
loculus
loggia
loom
loophole
lost-wax method
lotus
lukasa
lunette
luster
madder
madrasa
maenad
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
Meissen
memento mori
memory board
menhir
menorah
merlon
metope
mezzotint
mihrab
milagro
millefiore
mina’i ware
minaret
minbar
miniature
Minimalism
mirador
missal
moai
mobile
modeling
module
molding
monochrome
monolithic
monotype
monstrance
Moorish arch
mortise and tenon
mosaic
mosque
mother of pearl
motif
mudbrick
mudra
mullion
muqarnas
mural
nacre
naos
Naples yellow
narthex
naturalism
nave
necropolis
negative space
nemes
Neoclassicism
Neo-Plasticism
netsuke
New York School
niello
nimbus
nirvana
non-objective art
nonrepresentational art
Nouveau Réalisme
obelisk
obi
obsidian
ocher
octastyle
oculus
odalisque
oeuvre
oil paint
oinochoe
olpe
onyx
opisthodomos
opus anglicanum
opus reticulatum
opus sectile
opus vermiculatum
orant
oratory
orchestra
order
Orientalism
ormolu
Orphism
orpiment
ostrakon
outsider art
pagoda
palaestra
palette
palette knife
palimpsest
palmette
panel painting
pantokrator
papier mâché
papyrus
parcel gilt
parchment
parfleche
pastel
paten
patera
patina
pattern
pebble mosaic
pediment
pelike
pendant
pendentive
pentimento
peplos
performance art
peripteral
peristyle
petroglyph
pewter
phiale mesomphalos
photogram
photogravure
photomontage
photorealism
picture plane
pier
pietà
pietra dura
pigment
pilaster
pilgrimage
pilotis
pinax
pinnacle
pishtaq
pithos
platinotype
platinum print
plein-air
plinth
podium
pointing machine
polychrome
polyptych
polyrhythm
pontil
Pop Art
porcelain
porphyry
portico
portrait
potter’s wheel
pouncing
power figure
Precisionism
predella
Pre-Raphaelites
printmaking
pronaos
propylaeum
protome
provenance
Prussian blue
psalter
pseudoperipteral
psykter
pueblo
pulpit
punty
putti
pylon
pyxis
qibla
quadratura
quadro riportato
quatrefoil
quipu
quoins
Qur’an
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 art
rock crystal
Rococo
roof comb
rose window
rosette
rotunda
roundel
runes
rusticated masonry
sacra conversazione
sacral-idyllic landscape
sacramentary
sacristy
salon
Samarqand ware
sarcophagus
sardonyx
saz
scale
scarab
scarification
school
screen print
scriptorium
scumbling
semidome
serdab
serigraphy
serpentine
sfumato
sgraffito
shabti
shawabti
shibori
shofar
silkscreen
silverpoint
sinopia
situla
size
skylight
skyphos
slip
soapstone
Socialist Realism
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
Suprematism
surah
Surrealism
sutra
swag
Symbolism
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
ukiyo-e
ultramarine
uraeus
urna
ushabti
ushnisha
value
vanishing point
vanitas
vault
veduta
velarium
vellum
verde antico
verdigris
verism
vermillion
vernissage
verso
vestments
Vienna Secession
viridian
volutes
votive
voussoir
wabi-sabi
warp
watercolor
wattle and daub
wedging
wedjat
weft
westwork
wet-collodion process
wet-on-wet
white-ground technique
winter count
woodblock print
woodcut
X-ray style
yakshi
yasti
Zen garden
ziggurat
zinc white
zoomorphic
Sources Cited
Terry, James. Art History Glossary. https://blog.stephens.edu/arh101glossary/. Accessed October 22, 2022.
Key Facts
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