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. © Copyright 2020, 2018, 2015, 2012, 2008 by Kaplan, Inc., d/b/a Barron’s Educational Series All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this eBook on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the publisher. Published by Kaplan, Inc., d/b/a Barron’s Educational Series 750 Third Avenue New York, NY 10017 www.barronseduc.com ISBN: 978-1-5062-7428-7 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 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