Vocabulary

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Colonial House Museum

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A colonial house that has been transformed into a museum.

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Colonization

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The action or process of settling among and establishing control over indigenous people of an area.

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Petroglyph

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A rock carving especially a prehistoric one.

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Pictograph

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Earliest form of writing. A pictoral symbol for a word or phrase. Discovered in Egypt or Mesopotamia before 3000BC

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Prehistoric

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The period before written records

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Earthworks

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Embankment of earth or work of art consisting of a portion of land modified by an artist.

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Mission

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Ministry commissioned by a religious organization to propogate its faith.

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Mercantilism

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Of or relating to Merchants or trading

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Virginia Company

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2 stock companies chartered under James I with the goal of estsblishing colonies on the cost of North America. Companies empowered colonies to self govern. When it failed in 1624 the colonists still had right to self govern which formed the genesis of democracy in America.

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Decorative arts

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Arts and crafts concerned with the design and manufactor if beautifuk yet functional objects.

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Pilgrims

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European settlers of Plymouth colony

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Wainscot chair

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Usually made of oak that is usually used for wainscot paneling. Heavy chair with turned front legs, squade sectioned back legs, arm supports a simple upholstered seat and slightly raked panel back. Popular in 17th century colonial American households.

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Kas

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In Netherlands or Dutch colonies large cabinet of the 17th and 18th century. 2 doors and a number of drawers at the bottom, usualky having an elaborately painted or carved decoration.

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Limner

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Itinerant painter in 18th century America with little formal education

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Probate inventory

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Detailed list of all items in an estate for the purpose of moving the estate thru probate and addressing tax concerns.

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Georgian/Baroque style

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English architecture styles between 1714-1830. Rule if Georges 1-4.

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Pattern book

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Blueprints of house plans

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Queen Anne style

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English baroque architecture during reign of Queen Anne "age of walnut"

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William and Mary style

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1700-1725 netherlands, englsnd scotland then american colonies

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Chippendale style

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End ofn18th century named after cabinet maker Thomas Chippendale. Mid-Georgian, English Rococo and Neoclassical styles.

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Rococo style

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Late baroque exuberantly decorative. Fluid curves, theatrical, dense ornamentation. White and pastels used with gilding.

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Iconograghy

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Visual images and symbols used in art as a mode of repressntatiom collectively associated with a person, cult or movement.

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Emblem

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Heraldic device or symbolic object as a distinctive badge of a nation, organization or family.

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Federal era

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3 decades after declaration. Federalist Party was dominant. Time of the constitution, bill of rights

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Propaganda

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Information, often biased or misleading used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view

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Regicide

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Killing of a King. Charles 1 of England. Mary Queen of Scots

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Federal style

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Classicizing architecture and furniture from 1780-1830

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Neo-classicism

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Western movement in all arts that draw inspiration from classical art and culture of greco-roman antiquity.

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Pictorial illusionism

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Artistic tradition in which artists create a worl that appears to share physical space with the viewer or more broadly the attempt tonrepresent physicsl appearances precisely.

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History painting (as genre)

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Defined by its subject matter rather than artistic style. Usually depict a moment in a narrative story rather than a specific static subject. Story paintings.

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Allegory

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A story, poem or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political meaning.

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Grand Manner

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Idealized artistic style derived from classical art and modern classical art of the High Renaissance. 18th century british artists amd art lovers describe paintinfs thst incorporsted visual metsphors in order to suggest noble qualities.

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Genre style

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Pictoral representation of scenes if events of everyday life. Could be realistic, imagined or romanticized.