Art Appreciation Test 5 Chapters 18 and 19

Toward the end of the ____________________________, images of Buddha began to appear in northern India, influenced by interaction with Greek culture.

1st century AD

Islam came into being during the early part of the __________ century AD.

7th

_________________ was used as a symbol of the solar deity Amun, in the cultures of both Egypt and Kush.

A ram's head

___________________ serves to mark the entry to a reception hall in Persian palaces.

An iwan

Built in the early 12th century under the patronage of the god-king Suryavarman II and dedicated to Vishnu, _________________ consists of five shrines on a raised, pyramidal stone "mountain."

Angkor Wat

During the ____________ period in Japan, elements of Chinese culture reached the islands through the intermediary of Korea.

Asuka

Like the rulers of ancient Egypt, the kings of _______________ are viewed as sacred beings.

Benin

In the days of the Roman Empire, _____________ mingled with the Roman population in Africa and occasionally rose to high rank in the Roman army.

Berbers

Much of the painting of the Kamakura period depicted ____________________ themes.

Buddhist

___________________ became the most highly regarded art in Islamic lands, and its practitioners achieved the renown Europeans accorded to painters and sculptors.

Calligraphy

The great artistic event of the ____________________ was the popularity of woodblock prints, a new form that made art available to everyone.

Edo period

Cultural exchange between Islam and Byzantium can be seen in the ___________________________ at Córdoba, Spain.

Great Mosque

__________________ embody a taste for simple forms and natural materials that is one of the themes of Japanese art.

Haniwa

Why is much of the artwork from Africa lost to us?

It was made of perishable materials.

The most famous Nubian kingdom was __________, which lasted over 1,400 years.

Kush

Smooth surfaces and D-shaped eyes are characteristic of works from the

Nok culture.

The court artist ____________, who worked for three Mughal emperors, painted Shah Jahan on Horseback in 1630.

Payag

_______________________ was introduced into Indian culture by the British colonial authorities and studios run by both foreigners and natives were opened.

Photography

The minaret of the Kairouan Mosque in Tunisia was modeled on a _________________________.

Roman lighthouse

A different and more enduring image of the Buddha emerged in the 5th century AD, in the workshops at _____________ in northern India.

Sarnath

_______________ in Granada, Spain, was a royal city of gardens, palaces, mosques, baths, and quarters or artisans, all built within the protective walls of an older hilltop fortress.

The Alhambra

What is the name of the holy book of Islam?

The Qur'an

The Church of St. George at Lalibela has a central plan in the shape of a cross and was cut directly into ____________________ in the 12th century.

Volcanic rock

Buddhism is based on what insight?

We are kept chained to the world by desire

A small Indus sculpture of a torso exhibits a "relaxed abdomen." that scholars interpret to indicate the Indus people practiced ________________________ we know from later Indian culture as a component of yoga.

breathing exercises

Art created during the early days of the People's Republic of China aimed to teach _____________________ ideals.

communist

Bahram Gur and the Princess in the Black Pavilion demonstrates that some books in Islamic culture _____________________________________.

could be illustrated with images

Indian artists typically depicted women as soft, round and voluptuous to symbolize _______________________________.

fertility and abundance

The Tang dynasty was viewed as the the age of _____________________ while artists of the Song dynasty cast their own long shadow over the future with landscape.

figure painting

Papered covered sliding doors that define spaces within all kinds of structures are called ____________.

fusama

In Hindu architecture a ____________, (a small, dark, cavelike chamber) houses a statue of a deity.

garbhagriha

Zen priest-painters embodied the sudden appearance of meaning out of chaos in a painting technique called __________________, "splashed ink."

haboku

Muhammad's emigration from Mecca to Medina is known as the ___________.

hijra

The Africa that Islamic and Christian travelers found south of the Sahara was and is home to _______________________________, each with its own distinctive art forms.

hundreds of cultures

The most honored mask of the Igbo people of Nigeria, ______________ appears at the funeral of an especially important man

ijele

Mosque comes from the Arabic ____________, "place for bowing down.

masjid

In Africa ____________________ is never displayed in public as an isolated, inert object. It appears only in motion, only as the head or face of a spirit being that has appeared in the human community.

masquerade

The people of Kongo use containers called ______________ to hold materials that aid in rituals for harnessing the powers of the dead in the service of the living.

minkisi

Minkisi that are shaped like fierce hunters, believed to seek out and punish wrongdoers, are called

minkondi.

Chinese scholars were expected to write poetry and practice calligraphy, but during the Song dynasty, they also took an interest in ____________________.

painting

A beaded display piece from the Yoruba shows male power as based in strength, whereas female power, greater and more mysterious, generates _________________________.

ritual and new life

The _____________________ was a network of trade routes from China to Europe.

silk road

After Buddha's death, his cremated remains were distributed among eight memorial mounds called ________________.

stupas

A _____________is a stylized animal or monster face, which is the most famous and mysterious of Shang decorative motifs.

taotie

The first Qin emperor, Shihuangdi, ordered the crafting of a ____________________________.

terra-cotta army

In the Jain culture, ______________________ is a work that narrates the lives of the Jain saints.

the Kalpasutra

According to oral tradition, the current dynasty of Benin rulers was founded by a prince from

the Yoruba city of Ife.

Muslims are followers of Muhammad's teachings, and their name means ______________________.

those who submit

Followers of Daoism hoped to occupy a world filled with _____________________________ on attaining immortality.

tigers and chimeras

Edo era woodblock prints have come to be known as ______________, "images of the floating world."

ukiyo-e