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AP Art History Premium, Sixth Edition: 5 Practice Tests + Comprehensive Review (2023) delivers all the key information you need, including topic summaries, question banks, and study tips to ace your exam.

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    Scan now a Lied to access practice included with this book, or go to online.barronsbooks.com BARRON'S

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    Acknowledgments for Judy For this edition, I would also like to thank all those students who generously contributed their essays for use in this book. They are from St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Austin, Texas. They are: Paige Anderson, Anna Booth, Olivia Bowness, Hannah Bray, Allie Calcote, Hector Cantu, Clarisse Chiang, Ellie Claman, Leah Claman, Sienna Del Conte, Virginia Harrell, Lily Hersch, Haley Justiz, Nathan Lietzke, Elizabeth Long, Owen McWilliams, Georgia Northway, Grace Northway, Ava Nykaza, and Christian Zhao. Special thanks to my friend and colleague Marsha Russell for facilitating the St. Andrew’s essays.

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    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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    AP® is a registered trademark of the College Board, which is not affiliated with Barron’s and was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product. © Copyright 2023, 2020, 2018, 2015, 2012, 2008 by Kaplan North America, LLC, 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 North America, LLC, d/b/a Barron’s Educational Series 1515 W. Cypress Creek Road Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309 www.barronseduc.com ISBN: 978-1-5062-8819-2 10987654321 Kaplan North America, LLC, d/b/a Barron’s Educational Series print books are available at special quantity discounts to use for sales promotions, employee premiums, or educational purposes. For more information or to purchase books, please call the Simon & Schuster special sales department at 866-506-1949.

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    Table of Contents How to Use This Book Barron’s Essential 5 PART ONE: GETTING TO KNOW THE AP EXAM IN ART HISTORY Introduction The AP Exam 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 Answer Explanations PART THREE: CONTENT REVIEW Content Area: Global Prehistory

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    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

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    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

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    Content Area: Indigenous Americas 26 Art of the Americas Content Area: Africa 27 African Art Content Area: The Pacific 28 Pacific Art Content Area: Global Contemporary 29 Contemporary Art PART FOUR: PRACTICE TESTS Practice Test 1 Answer Key Answer Explanations Practice Test 2 Answer Key Answer Explanations Glossary Photo Credits

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    How to Use This Book This book provides comprehensive review and extensive practice for the latest AP Art History course and exam. About the Exam Start with the Introduction in Part One, which outlines the exam format. Review the advice for answering both question types, learn how the test is scored, and familiarize yourself with important exam nomenclature and key dates to keep in mind. Diagnostic Test Next, take the full-length diagnostic test in Part Two to determine which topics you know well and which ones you may want to brush up on. Complete the entire test, and then check all of the answer explanations, especially for any questions you may have missed. Then, consult the Evaluation of Diagnostic Test pages to gauge your final score. Review and Practice Study all 29 chapters in Part Three, which are divided into the following units, or main content areas, of the latest AP Art History course and exam: Global Prehistory, Ancient Mediterranean, Early Europe and Colonial Americas, West and Central Asia, Later Europe and Americas, South, East, and Southeast Asia, Indigenous Americas, Africa, The Pacific, and Global Contemporary. Every chapter includes the time period that will be covered, a review of key topics and works of art, clear illustrations, chapter summaries, and end-of-chapter practice exercises with detailed answer explanations. Practice Tests

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    There are two full-length practice tests toward the end of the book that mirror the actual exam in format, content, and level of difficulty. Each test is followed by detailed answers and explanations for all questions. Glossary Before completing your review, be sure to consult the Glossary at the end of the book for a list of important terms and definitions that you should be familiar with for test day. Online Practice There are also two additional full-length practice tests online. You may take these tests in practice (untimed) mode or in timed mode. All questions are answered and explained. For Students Students who take AP Art History, unlike students who take almost any other AP exam, often approach the material afresh at the beginning of the school year, with no prior study or understanding of the subject. This is an extraordinary opportunity for teachers as well as students to confront a new subject with no pre-established prejudices. However, because students may have little background and must learn everything from scratch, the course can seem unusually daunting. All those works of art! All those unfamiliar names! All those vocabulary words! Civilizations rise and fall in only a week’s time in an art history classroom! Ideally, this book serves as a refresher to complement a complete art history course. It does not function to replace any of the excellent survey texts available on the subject, nor does it pretend to duplicate any of the materials available through the College Board. However, it is a good way to easily organize study patterns for reviewing hundreds of images and learning to discuss them in an intelligent way. You should be aware that this book is not a magic solution to solve a year’s worth of lethargy. Optimally, it should be used as a complement to the course, but it will also serve well as a systematic study program to prepare you for the exam. By March, you should be reviewing the earliest material,

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    slowly going over one art period after another. It is worthwhile going over every image in the book, whether or not it is familiar to you. The more breadth of experience you have, and the greater your understanding of the subject, the more likely you will be able to handle any question that comes your way. For Teachers This book is fully aligned with the ten units and exam format outlined in the latest AP Art History Course and Exam Description. Teachers may wish to use the practice tests as a warm-up to the actual exam. The more familiar students are with the actual exam, the more likely they are to score well on it.

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    bd BARRON’S ESSENTIAL 5 As you review the content in this book and work toward earning that 5 on your AP Art History exam, here are five things that you MUST know above everything else: Learn to fully identify each object completely. Multiple-choice questions may ask you to know all the details about a work (for example: name of artist, if known; name of work; date; period or culture; medium and/or materials; location of architecture). Examples: + Funeral banner of Lady Dai (Xin Zhui), 180 B.CE., painted silk; Chinese: Han Dynasty «Ogata Korin, White and Red Plum Blossoms, 1710-1716, ink, watercolor, and gold leaf on paper; Japanese + Templo Mayor (Main Temple), 1375-1520, stone, Tenochtitlan, Mexico City, Mexico; Mexica (Aztec) Study works of art in context. It is important to know the names of the artists and the titles of the works, but it is required to know how these were meant to be seen and understood. You must know a given work’s context to understand how the work can be interpreted. Study in-depth works that are important because of their location. Many of the works that are now required have significant locations, and it is wise to study how their location influences their design. This is often asked. Examples: + Lanzén Stone «Smithson, Spiral Jetty «Dome of the Rock

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