AP Art History: With 5 Practice Tests (Barron's Test Prep)

1253 Pages·2020·196.701 MB·English

by  John B. Nici

for Judy
About the Author
John B. Nici has a master’s degree in art history and is retired from teaching
at both Lawrence High School in Cedarhurst, New York and at Queens
College in Flushing, New York. In 2004 he was the recipient of Queens
College’s President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by Adjunct Faculty.
He has published extensively on art history pedagogy and has presented and
published scholarly papers on topics that include Byzantine art, Piero della
Francesca, and Delacroix. He is the author of Famous Works of Art—and
How They Got That Way.
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Contents
Barron’s Essential 5
PART ONE: G ETTING TO KNOW THE AP EXAM IN ART HISTORY
Introduction
How to Use This Book
The Advanced Placement Examination in the History of Art: An
Overview
How the Test Is Scored
Exam Nomenclature
Dates
What’s New About the Redesigned AP Exam?
Answering the Multiple-Choice Questions
Answering the Free-Response Questions
Attribution Practice
Continuity and Change Practice
Concordance of the AP Curriculum Framework and Barron’s AP Art
History
PART TWO: DIAGNOSTIC TEST
Diagnostic Test
Answer Key
PART THREE: CONTENT REVIEW
Content Area: Global Prehistory
1 Prehistoric Art
Content Area: Ancient Mediterranean
2 Ancient Near Eastern Art
3 Egyptian Art
4 Greek Art
5 Etruscan Art
6 Roman Art
Content Area: Early Europe and Colonial Americas
7 Late Antique Art
8 Byzantine Art
Content Areas: Early Europe and Colonial Americas West and Central
Asia
9 Islamic Art
Content Area: Early Europe and Colonial Americas
10 Early Medieval Art
11 Romanesque Art
12 Gothic Art
13 Gothic Art in Italy
14 Renaissance in Northern Europe
15 Early Renaissance in Italy: Fifteenth Century
16 High Renaissance and Mannerism
17 Baroque Art
18 Art of New Spain: Spanish Colonies in the Americas
Content Areas: Early Europe and Colonial Americas Later Europe and
Americas
19 Rococo and Neoclassicism
Content Area: Later Europe and Americas
20 Romanticism
21 Late-Ninteenth-Century Art
22 Early- and Mid-Twentieth-Century Art
Content Areas: South, East, and Southeast Asia
23 Indian and Southeast Asian Art
24 Chinese and Korean Art
25 Japanese Art
Content Area: Indigenous Americas
26 Art of the Americas
Content Area: Africa
27 African Art
Content Area: The Pacific
28 Pacific Art