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'N'otable Art Terms

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Introduction:
"In this quiz, as with its many predecessors, the important art terms will begin with a single letter...this time 'N'. See if you can't meet the challenge and identify these interesting terms!"


1. This 'N' term, related to architecture, describes a cemetery of elaborate design to be found in an ancient city. Name it!
    Answer: (Dead, City)


2. Another word from the architectural vocabulary, if you will forgive the indulgence. What is the term for the central aisle of an ancient Roman basilica and the central hall of a Christian cruciform church?
    Narthex
    Napse
    Nexus
    Nave


3. What is another name for a 'gloriole', the halo of light surrounding the head of a sacred religious figure in art?
    Nimbus
    Nobless
    Naos
    Nebula


4. A term frequently associated with piano music, it also can describe a night scene in the visual arts. To which term am I alluding?
    Answer: (Think...Chopin)


5. The late medieval process called 'niello' required which of these items?
    Bees wax
    Fresh wood
    An Enamel glaze
    A metallic alloy


6. The remainder of the questions in this quiz will deal with 'N' art movements. Perhaps the most overused prefix in modern art, it can be placed before classicism, realism, Dada, Expressionism, Impressionism, Plasticism, and on and on, ad nauseum. What is this delightful little prefix?
    Answer: (Remember...prefix!)


7. The French painters Bonnard, Vuillard and Sérusier were so inspired by Gauguin's works that they named themselves the 'Nabis', which means prophets. From which language is this a 'prophetic' word?
    Hebrew
    Arabic
    Russian
    Hindi


8. The works of Grandma Moses, Henri Rousseau and John Kane can all be described using which 'N' term?
    Nonsense
    Native
    Naive
    Narcissistic


9. The 'New York School' is another name for which of these modern art movements?
    Dada
    Abstract Expressionism
    Surrealism
    Minimalism


10. Overbeck and Pforr were the two most famous of this small group of German painters, based in Rome during the early 19th century, whose goal it was to return art to its true purpose, to serve religion. What was this group, established in 1809, called?
    Nebuchadnezzers
    Naturalisme
    Naphthalites
    Nazarenes


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