AP Art History flashcards

What's in it

Every deck follows the course outline, with tags you can study or suspend topic by topic. Open a deck to study its free sample right here.

Study guide

Topics covered

The decks follow the order of the course outline. Numbers are cards per topic.

• Global Prehistory 10
• Ancient Mediterranean 42
  • Ancient Near East 8
  • Egypt 11
  • Greece 11
  • Etruria and Rome 12
• Early Europe and Colonial Americas 58
  • Late Antique and Byzantine 7
  • Early Medieval and Islamic Iberia 6
  • Romanesque and Gothic 8
  • Fifteenth Century 7
  • Sixteenth Century 14
  • Baroque and Colonial Americas 16
• Later Europe and Americas 43
  • Enlightenment to Romanticism 11
  • Realism to Post-Impressionism 11
  • Early Modernism 13
  • Midcentury and Postwar 8
• Indigenous Americas 11
• Africa 12
• West and Central Asia 10
• South / East / Southeast Asia 16
• The Pacific 8
• Global Contemporary 10

A study plan

• 8 new cards a day covers everything in a month, leaving the last weeks for review.
• 5 new cards a day covers everything in two months, leaving the last weeks for review.

Willys schedules reviews for you (FSRS spaced repetition), so the daily number above is only for new cards; reviews of what you have learned come back on their own. Study a topic's cards right after you meet it in class, suspend topics you have not reached yet, and use the app's quiz mode in the final two weeks.

How to get these decks

1. Install Willys on your iPhone, iPad or Mac — App Store. 14-day free trial, then $14.99 a year.
2. In Willys, tap Exam Library at the top of your Decks (or Browse Exam Library… under the + button), find the exam on its shelf or by search, tick it and tap Add.
3. Study. The exam comes in as its own collapsible folder, every card scheduled by FSRS spaced repetition. Nothing you already have is changed.

About these cards

Review status: Second-reader reviewed, with corrections applied.

Checked against:

• Topic outline follows the College Board AP Art History Course and Exam Description (effective Fall 2020, with the clarifications implemented for Fall 2026), Units 1–3 and the required image set; no text copied.
• Facts checked against Smarthistory (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0); reference only, no text copied.
• Museum and heritage records checked: the French Ministry of Culture's Lascaux site, the Musée du Louvre, LACMA, the National Gallery (London), the Uffizi and the Metropolitan Museum of Art; corrections also checked against the excavators' report on the Samothrace Nike Monument (American Journal of Archaeology 124, 2020) and Treccani's Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani; reference only, no text copied.
• Also checked: the British Museum's collection record and its BBC Radio 4 series A History of the World in 100 Objects, the Penn Museum's Expedition magazine, the Getty Union List of Artist Names and Art & Architecture Thesaurus, the official sites of Saint-Louis-des-Français in Rome, Turismo Roma and the Cabildo Catedral de Córdoba, Utah Valley University's open art-history textbook and Material Culture Review; reference only, no text copied.
• Topic outline follows the College Board AP Art History Course and Exam Description (effective Fall 2020, with the clarifications implemented for Fall 2026), Units 4–10 and the required image set; no text copied.
• Topic outline follows the College Board AP Art History Course and Exam Description (effective Fall 2020, with the clarifications implemented for Fall 2026), Units 1–10 and the required image set; no text copied.
• OpenStax World History Volume 1, consulted as a reference; no text copied.
• Also checked against museum, heritage and government pages (the British Museum, Musée du Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery, London, Museo del Prado, Tate, the Australian Museum, Blanton Museum of Art, Chazen Museum of Art, Spencer Museum of Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, English Heritage, the National Park Service, the Library of Congress, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, City of Chicago Landmarks, the Cathedral Chapter of Córdoba, Chartres Cathedral and Saint-Louis-des-Français, Rome), open textbooks and courses (Utah Valley University on UEN Pressbooks, SUNY/Lumen, Gustlin and Gustlin on LibreTexts, Yale HSAR 252), the Edizioni Atlas Arte textbook, EBSCO Research Starters, IEEE Spectrum, Art21 Magazine and peer-reviewed articles (Rapa Nui Journal, PMC, Médiévales, Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny); reference only, no text copied.
• World History Encyclopedia (worldhistory.org), consulted, not copied.

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