ART-1030 Section Test 3 - Chapters 3.1 - 3.9

The Church of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy, is from this period.

Byzantine

Which of the following cultures did not have a written language?

Cycladic

The written language used by the ________ is hieroglyphics.

Egyptians

Who called himself the Sun King?

Louis XIV

Which of the following terms means "rebirth" and is used to describe an artistic movement characterized by renewed interest in the Classical world of Greece and Rome?

Renaissance

The Gupta Seated Buddha (3.3.4) is portrayed as:

a teacher

Masaccio used which of the following elements and principles in Tribute Money?

all of the other answers

Artwork in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries can be ________.

all of the previous answers

What aspects of Édouard Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) discomfited many viewers when it was first exhibited?

all of the previous answers

The small pieces of glass that make up mosaics are called ________.

tesserae

Cowrie shells in artworks by both African and Pacific Island peoples often represent:

fertility

What role did photography play for the artist Thomas Eakins?

he used photography to study anatomy and proportion

Which of the following are qualities of most Impressionist artists and their paintings?

they rejected the traditional values of the Academy

Abstract designs and patterns can convey information that is as important, recognizable, and specific as both representational and narrative imagery.

true

Calligraphy, painting, and poetry were three entirely separate artforms for the Chinese.

true

Prehistoric female figurines that refer to reproduction are called fertility figures.

true

The Chinese have great respect for their ancestors and often make artworks for the dead to enjoy.

true

The Dome of the Rock was built on a site sacred to Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

true

The Greeks often used ideal proportions in their sculpture and architecture.

true

The tall towers surrounding a mosque, from which the faithful are called to prayer, are called ________.

minarets

In "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa," the curl of the wave intertwines with the sky to create an abstract ________.

yin and yang

Syncretism is the altering of an old artwork with modern techniques.

false

The Egyptians took a haphazard approach to building the pyramids, suggesting that they did not have a strong understanding of math and geometry.

false

The Dura Europos synagogue is from this period.

Late Antiquity

Terra-cotta heads with prominent holes in the pupils, nostrils, mouth, and ears were made by the ________ culture of ________.

Nok . . . Nigeria

Which of the following influenced Degas's Blue Dancers?

Japanese art

Mount Fuji, the Japanese mountain that features in Hokusai's famous print "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa," is sacred to followers of ________.

Shinto

Where is the Hall of Mirrors?

Versailles

Animals were never shown on cave paintings.

false

Manuscripts in the Middle Ages were produced in factories in which hundreds of duplicate pages were made quickly using a printing press.

false

Leonardo da Vinci invented a painting technique that consisted of applying a hazy or misty glaze over the painting. This technique is called ________.

sfumato

Christ as the Good Shepherd was a common theme in early Christian art.

true

Henry Ossawa Tanner's The Banjo Lesson challenges negative stereotypes of African-Americans.

true

In Islamic faith, gardens are symbolic of Paradise on Earth.

true

The decorative elements in manuscript illumination can also function to guide the reader, for example to signify headings or breaks in the text.

true

The earliest surviving paintings in the world are found in caves.

true

When an Egyptian pharaoh died, his organs were removed and stored in canopic jars.

true

Alexandre Cabanel's Birth of Venus is an example of a(n) ________ painting.

Academic

The Hudson River School painted ________.

American landscapes

The formal element that Mark Rothko focused on is ________.

color

Jackson Pollock made paintings by:

dripping paint onto a canvas on the floor

Camille Claudel's sculpture The Waltz received some criticism for being too ________.

erotic

Filippo Brunelleschi has been widely regarded as the first Renaissance ________.

architect

African masks, such as the Kanaga mask made by the Dogon of Mali (3.5.6), are most "alive" in museum cases.

false

The Bull-Leapers fresco from Knossos is ________ scene.

an acrobatic

Artworks based on which of these religions can be found in India?

all of the other answers

The artistic traditions of Africa and the Pacific Islands share:

all of the previous answers

The following are architectural orders developed by the Greeks:

all of the previous answers