AP Art History (Sem. 1 Final)

The Terra Cotta Fragment was created in which year?

1000 B.C.

Which century makers the incorporation of Etruria into the Roman Empire?

1st century BCE

Terracotta sarcophagi showing life-sized reclining figures are most typical od which of the following centuries?

6th century BCE

The Trobriand Islanders show great skill in carving. Which of the following illustrated that skill?

Canoes

Evidence of the swamp-plant origin of stone columns can be seen in the columns at kamak. Which of the following descriptions supports this?

Capitals are shaped as lotus or papyrus

Bull horns, common motifs in rooms as shrines. Where were these rooms located?

Catal Hoyuk

Oldest planed town excavated so far located in?

Catal Hoyuk

What are is the Tlatilco female figurine originally found?

Central Mexico

A "horned headress" on the running female from the Tassili can signify which of the following?

Ceremonial regalia

Which Paleolithic site used radiocarbon dating to establish its age?

Chauvet Cave

Which work of art was created first?

Chauvet Cave

Freed slaves often ordered portrait reliefs for their tombs. Which of the following is the best reason for this?

Commemorate their status as Roman citizens

Whys is the palette of King Narmer unique among surviving Egyptian artworks?

Commemorative rather than funerary

Which of the following allowed Etruscan society to transform itsle in the 7th century BCE?

Great mineral wealth

Which of the following conclusions could be drawn reguarding the Athenians perception of themselves based on the Panathenaic Festival frieze from the Pertenon?

Had high opinions of their own worth

A good example of a building in the ionic style is the?

Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis

The Apulu of Veii is made of which of the following materials?

Terracotta

The Etruscans preferred which of the follwoing materials for the sculpture?

Terracotta

The most pronounced influence of Grek Classical art on roman art could be seen in the work done for which of the following?

The Emperor Augustus

The Emperor Trajan commissioned which of the following?

The column depicting his victories (Trajan's column)

Unlike Greek temples, Etruscan temples are not meant to be seen as scuptural masses. Which of the following architecural elements would this be?

The entrance was centered at the front of the structure

Most architecural sculpture was made to decorate what part of the Etruscan temple?

The roof

The Republican portraits are usually of older men. Which of the following explains the life-like vertism of these portraits?

The traditions of the treasured household imagines

Pompeian wall paintings of the Second Styele are characterize by ehich of the following?

The wall seemingly opening up into an illusionistic landscape

Ain Ghazal figurine statuettes are different from Paleolithic figurines. What is justification?

Their size and sophisticated technique

How ere Etruscan cemeteries arranged?

They were arranged around a center pyramid

During the 6th century BCE, Etruscans favored monumental sarcophagi that contained which of the following?

Ashes of the deceased

Whats is a megalith

A great stone

The wide, overhang roof o the Etruscan temple could function as which of the following?

A place of shelter

Paleolithic animal paintings can NOT be described as?

Abstract

Most significant transformation of the human condition = result of?

Agricultural Revolution

Tassili is in which of the following countries?

Algeria

A dipylon vase would most likely be found in which of the following?

An Athenian cemetery for the Geometric Period

Neolithic Period. Which area transitioned into agriculture and raising livestock first?

Ancient Near East

Anavysos Kourous was from which time period

Archaic

Black-figure ceramics would most likely be found in conjuction with the art of which of the following periods?

Archaic and Early Classical

What is the easiest way to distinguish archaic sculpture?

Archaic smile

Which of the following best describes and distinguishes the "Fourth Style" of ROman painting?

Architectural Illusionism

Where would an oculus be found?

At the center of a dome

What is terracotta?

Baked clay

Which of the following would be located in a froum and would house the law court for the city?

Basilica

What is a lintel?

Beam used to span an opening

Which animal appears less frequently in Lascaux cave paintings?

Bear

Almost all theories of paleolithic animal images are discredited. Which statement explains this fact?

Before invention of writing, no contemporary explanations could be recoreded.

What are bucrania?

Bovine skulls

The seated boxer was made from what material?

Bronze

Which of the following pieces was one of the earliest pieces found in Mesoamerica

Camelid Sacrum

Camelid Sacrum is in the shape of what?

Canine

In the last phase of the mesolithic period what animal was domesticated?

Dog

The column used on Etruscan temples is similar to which type of Greek column?

Doric

In Etruscan iconography, which of the following symbollized regeneration?

Egg

The Tlatilco figurine is a depiction of?

Female

Important series of caves with paintings from paleolithic period is in?

France

Figures sculpted in the round can be defined as?

Free-standing

Tomb paintings were created in which of the following techniques?

Fresco Seccp

What is a composite view of human representation

Frontal torso, profile head, legs and arms

The gigantimachy of the Alter of Zeus, Pergamon alludes to a victory to the Pergamenes over the __________________ in the third century BCE.

Gauls

Which column type was NOT used by the Egyptians?

Geometric with lion-shaped capital

Human with Feline Head found in?

Germany

Which of the following is depicted as a hawk or falcon and protedctor of the pharoah?

Horus

Megalithic monuments are found throughout Europe, but what type is limited to Britain?

Huge Stones arranged in a circle

There were considered some of the first funerary objects from the Content Area 1?

Ibex Motifs

How did the Etruscans typically bury their dead?

In subterranean rooms arranged along a network of streets int he city of the dead

One suggested purpose of cave paintings of Altamira is?

Insurance for the survival of the heard

Catal Hoyuk is a most remarkabke mural, a landscape. What best defines the term landscape?

It is a picture of a natural setting in its own right without any narrative content

What is a ground line?

It is an engraved line on the wall surface

Which of the following describes Etruscan art?

It was a combination of motion and vitality

Which of the following was the first to break with tradiion and use his portrait on Roman coinage?

Julius Cesear

A standing nude figure of a young man is know in Greek art as which of the following?

Kouros

Which of the following is a characteristic of the Nok style in ceramic sculpture?

Large alert eyes

the Pallete of King Narmer etsblished the convention for state policy represented in art, a policy proclaiming the pharaoah as divine ruler. Which of the following supports this idea?

Larger than life representation of the pharoah

Where is the Ibex Motifs currently located at?

Louvre Museum, Paris

Which of the following best describes and distinguishes the "First Style" Roman painting?

Masonry

Etruscan artists particularly excelled at which of the following?

Metal working

When compared to the Classical style, Greek Hellinistic art can be characterized as?

More realistic and emotional

We consider Jade Cong to be from this period?

Neolithic

Pyramids were most popular during which of the following periods?

Old Kingdom

In about 3000 BCE, the conventions for representing the human figure that dominated Egyptian art until the end of the New Kingdom can be found in which of the following?

Palette of King Narmer

The ancient Egyptians believed the unification of Egypt took place in a single great event. Which of the following is a record of that great event?

Palette of Narmer

The Etruscans shared a common lingustic hetigae and religious reliefs, but they lacked which of the following?

Political cohesion

Women in Oceanic societies were active in creating which of the folowing?

Pottery

Egyptian architects were quite innovative in solving problems. An invention that was seen in its primitive form in the valley temple of the Pyramid of Kahfre, the clerestory, became a fully realized architectural element at Kamak. Which of the following describes the functional element?

Raised central roof permitting light to filter into the interior

Whose mortuary temple was located in Abu Simbel until it was moved in 1968 to save it from the Aswan Dam Resovoir?

Ramses II

What does Lapita mean?

Refers to ancient pacific culture

Deer Hunt from Catal Hoyuk is world apart from wall paintings of the same period. Which supports this?

Regular appearance of the human figure and the coherent groupings

Early Archaic stone statues followed Egyptians style very closely. This stye can be described as?

Rigidly frontal, left foot slightly advanced

The Anthropomorphic Stele is made of what material?

Sandstone

How does he kneeling statue of Hatshpsut indicate her status as a pharoah?

She is wearing royal male nemes headdress

Which describes Venus of Willendorf?

Small Paleolithic figurine of a woman

Which of the following is uniquely Greek in style and was imported to Rome in the first century BCE?

Tholos Style Temples

The Etruscan temple differeed from the Greek temple bc it had whch of the following?

Three cellas

Facial striping is used as an indicator in African societies for which of the following?

Titled status

What does Anthropomorphic mean?

To give a god, nature, or animals some type of human qualities

Typicial tomb form found at Cerveteri is which of the following?

Tumulus

Which of the following would possessions would suggest that the user holds a positions of leaderships?

Umbrella

How was information transmitted from one generation to the other in Pacific Island societies?

Verbally

The Etruscans preferred what building material(s) for their temples?

Wood and Mudbrick

Whats is the password fro my website?

springfieldart

Which of the following mythical scenes decorated the Ficaroni Cista?

the Argonauts

The pantheon was one of the most influential designs in the history of architecutre. It brought new meaning to the concept of "arhitectural space". Which of he followin descriptions characterize this influential work?

the design is based on the intersection of two circles