ARTH U1 Test

Attribute

The distinctive identifying aspect of a person - a object held, associated animal, or mark on the body

Iconography

The study of the symbolic, often religious, meaning of objects, persons, or events depicted in the work.

Physical Evidence

The examination of the materials used to produce an artwork in order to determine its date.

Internal Evidence

The examination of what an artwork represents in its people, clothing, hairstyle, to determine date.

Documentary Evidence

The examination of written sources in order to determine the date of an artwork, or artist.

Patron

The person or entity that pays an artist to produce individual artworks or employs an artist on a continuing basis.

Period Style

The characteristics of a specific era or span of years.

Personal Style

The distinctive manner of individual artists or architects, explaining stylistic discrepancies between works made in the same time or place.

Regional Style

The variations in style tied to geography.

Provenance

Origin or source, findspot.