Art History 101 Part 2 Intro,1,2,3 MindTap
Which of the following items was made by an additive technique?
A wooden spoon
Which settlement is associated with the beginning of large-scale, or monumental, sculpture?
Ain Ghazal
Which pharaoh abandoned the worship of the multitude of Egyptian gods in favor of Aton?
Akhenaton
What pictorial narrative convention is not present on the Warka Vase?
Descriptive inscriptions
Which of the following is not an example of the interdisciplinary nature of 21st-century art historical inquiry?
A costume designer replicates the garments seen in a painting for a play.
What is the most likely function of the Neolithic site of Göbekli Tepe?
A religious center
What do art historians call an element such as the winged man, eagle, lion, and ox accompanying the pictures of the four Gospel authors?
Genre
What does the provenance of an artwork tell the art historian?
Its place of origin
What transitional period occurred just before Europe became climatically, geographically, and biologically much as it is today?
Mesolithic era
Which component is lacking from large Neolithic fortifications and megalithic structures?
Mortar
Which of the following is an important convention for the organization of forms in a pictorial space?
Perspective
Which of the following sets of terms represent graphical representations of an architectural structure?
Plan, elevation, section
What architectural technique is used at the far-flung Neolithic sites of Hagar Qim and Stonehenge?
Post and lintel
What is the name of the chancellor/architect-engineer who served during the reign of Hatshepsut?
Senenmut
What accounts for the similarity of the statue of Mentuemhet to the figure of Menkaure in the statue of Menkaure and Khamerernebty?
The Egyptian canon
What architectural form makes this temple at Hagar Qim especially noteworthy?
The combination of straight and curved forms
What was the primary objective of mummification?
Immortality
The reliefs from the palace at Ninevah show Ashurbanipal hunting which creature?
Lion
In certain eras, such as pharaonic Egypt or imperial Rome, which class of individual had the most influence on the final appearance of a work of art?
The patron
What was the purpose of Egyptian royal portraiture?
To highlight the divinity of the pharaoh
