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Illuminated manuscript ("Vision of God's Plan for the Seasons")

(colorful, circular image on parchment/vellum)

Reconstruction of palace (Assyrian)

(image of a large, rectangular "great hall" with high ceiling and colorful, ornate designs on walls)

Dutch (Rembrandt, Self-Portrait)

(not actually this picture! But a dark portrait of him, with his hands on his hips)

the ​twelfth and thirteenth centuries

Academics generally agree that the Gothic style of architecture began in __________.

theatrical emotion and realism

All of the following terms and concepts apply to Polykleitos' ​Doryphoros (Spear-Bearer), except for __________.

realism; wax death masks

Although much Roman art is stylistically derived from Greece, portrait sculptures like Head of a Roman are notable for their incredible __________, made possible by __________.

*find answer* -- NOT transept, NOT nave

An architectural aspect of the church of St. Sernin is its use of the __________.

​mythological themes

As evidenced in The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli loved, above all else, to paint __________.

exterior walls appeared heavier

As the Gothic period progressed, all of the following architectural innovations occurred except __________.

curving lines and full-bodied forms

During Akhenaton's reign, the longstanding stylized formality of Egyptian art briefly gave way to __________, as seen in the very famous Bust of Queen Nefertiti.

​spirituality and otherworldliness

During the Renaissance period, there was a revival of all of the following except __________.

Archaic *(double check!)*

During the __________ period of Greek art, an architectural format was developed that served as a model for all later Greek temples.

​black-figure; Archaic

Exekias' Achilles and Ajax Playing Dice features black figures on a reddish background; it is an example of the __________ painting technique and was produced during the __________ period of Greek art.

painting with a bronze knife blade

For the Paleolithic Hall of Bulls cave painting, artists used all of the following techniques except __________.

Cuneiform

From the Latin word meaning "wedge," __________ was a system of writing developed by the Sumerians.

Propaganda

Imperial Roman sculpture, as represented in the Augustus of Primaporta and the Ara Pacis Augustae, was often used for which purpose?

King Tut's solid gold coffin

In 1922, British archaeologist Howard Carter remarked, "[A] gasp of wonderment escaped our lips, so gorgeous was the sight that met our eye: a golden effigy of the young boy king . . ." Carter was referring to __________.

fireproofing

In St. Sernin, the ceiling structure is a stone barrel vault, which was necessary for __________.

top step of the platform is perfectly straight

In an effort to produce an integrated look to the Parthenon, all of the following construction variations are found except that the __________.

(***find answer***)

In both the Akkadian Victory Stele of Naram Sin and the Egyptian Narmer Palette, the kings are depicted __________.

​palace interior is lavishly decorated with dramatic vistas

In the Palace at Versailles, all of the following elements echo Renaissance techniques except that the __________.

in a conceptual manner

In the Victory Stele of Naram Sin, the king and his men are represented _____________, probably meant to indicate respect and victory.

megalithic; Stonehenge

It was during the Neolithic period that __________ monuments were erected, and the most famous example is __________.

ka sculptures

Large-scale tomb sculptures that were intended to house the spirit of the deceased if mummification failed were known as __________

​death or worship of the dead

Much of ancient Egypt's art and many of its monuments were, in one way or another, linked to __________.

Greek victory over the Persians

Myron's Discobolos or Discus Thrower is representative of the most significant development in Early Classical art: the introduction of implied movement in space. The beginning of the Classical period in art coincided with which historical event?

Venus de Milo

One of the earliest and most famous "fertility" figurines from the Paleolithic period is the __________.

Romans; the Pantheon

One of the most significant innovations in building design introduced by the _________ was concrete, which made construction of ______ possible.

archaic smile

Some of the earliest freestanding sculptures of the Archaic period were kouros figures, or blocky statues of nude young men, all with a conventionalized facial expression called the __________.

colonnades

The Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut was carved out of living rock and is most impressive visually due to its three tiers of pillared __________.

deeply carved, fleshy, well-rounded human figures

The Processional Frieze from the royal audience hall in Persepolis, shows_________.

​the Sacrifice of Isaac

The Renaissance began in 1401 with a competition for the commission to sculpt bronze doors for the baptistery of Florence. The subject of the entry panels was __________.

Constantine

The Roman equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius still exists only because it was mistakenly believed to be a portrait of __________, the first emperor to recognize Christianity.

naturalistic figures in contrapposto

The San Vitale apse mosaic Justinian and Attendants is characterized by all of the following except __________.

Shamash

The Stele of Hammurabi depicts the Babylonian ruler Hammurabi gaining inspiration for his codified laws from the god(dess)__________.

ziggurat

The __________ was a multilevel temple designed by the religion-oriented Sumerians but built by the later Babylonians and Assyrians.

early Christians​

The catacombs were a huge network of galleries and burial chambers beneath the city of Rome where __________ worshiped in secret and buried their dead.

geometric

The circles, squares, patterning, and rigid, wedge-shaped torsos depicted on the Dipylon Vase indicate that it is a fine example of the __________ period of Greek art.

Constantine

The first centuries after the death of Jesus, before Emperor ________________ proclaimed religious tolerance for Christians, were known as the period of persecution.

repentance through prayer

The iconography of damnation apparent in the Romanesque Last Judgment tympanum from the Cathedral of Autun was intended to convey pictorially __________.

contrapposto

The jamb figures of Mary and Elizabeth on the west portal of Reims Cathedral are placed in a naturalistic weight-shift stance, also known as __________.

light filtering through windows at its base

The massive dome of Hagia Sophia, which rivals the Roman Pantheon, appears to be light and graceful due to __________.

Constantine

Which of the following historical personalities is not associated with the Enlightenment?

​The Sistine Chapel

Which of the following was not a Baroque addition to St. Peter's?​

Old St. Peter's; basilican

__________ was one of the first and most important churches erected during the Early Christian period. With its long nave and apse at one end, it was a __________ plan church.

​a barely adolescent boy

​ For his bronze statue of David, the first life-size nude since classical times, Donatello chose __________ as a prototype.

​theaters; Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian

​ The Colosseum in Rome consists of two back-to-back __________ and a combination of __________ columns that produce a sense of lightness proceeding from bottom to top tier.

frieze

​ The Doric ___________ was divided vertically into compartments. The triglyphs contained vertical grooves, and the metopes were filled with sculpted figures.

​continued painting religious and mythological scenes as in Baroque Italy

​After Martin Luther's Reformation, Dutch artists painted scenes of daily life, whereas Flemish artists __________.

​introspection and psychological situations

​All of Rembrandt's paintings, drawings, and prints seem to focus on __________.

​loose brushwork and dramatic white spotlighting

​As seen in Tintoretto's The Last Supper, his __________ anticipate(s) the Baroque style.

​Proto-Renaissance

​Because Cimabue and Giotto's paintings combine Late Gothic and Early Renaissance styles, they are classified as __________.

France

​Before the Baroque period ended, __________ began to replace Rome as the center of the art world.

​Leonardo da Vinci

​Considered a true Renaissance man, __________ excelled in engineering, the natural sciences, anatomy, music, and technological prototypes, not to mention creating some of the world's best loved paintings.

Athens; Pericles

​During the Classical period, __________ became the center of Greek art and culture under the dynamic statesman __________.

naturalistic depiction of the human figure

​During the Old Kingdom period of Egyptian art, a new manner of representing the human figure developed that would last thousands of years. It was characterized by all of the following except __________.

​society's outcasts

​For The Conversion of St. Paul, Caravaggio selected the models in his painting from __________.

​maids of honor; Impressionism

​For his mysterious Las Meninas, or the __________, Diego Velázquez dissolved his forms into small, roughly textured brushstrokes that would be the hallmark of __________ two centuries later.

​San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

​Francesco Borromini's __________ is an organic building that incorporates the Baroque elements of motion, space, and light.

​classically inspired facial features

​In Jean-Honoré Fragonard's Happy Accidents of the Swing, all of the following are characteristics of the Rococo and depicted in the painting except __________.

monotheist; Amarna period

​In New Kingdom Egypt, Amenhotep IV started a revolution in both religion and the arts when he changed his name to Akhenaton to honor the sun god and became a __________. The period of his reign is known as the __________.

tenebrism

​In both of their paintings of Judith Decapitating Holofernes, Caravaggio and Artemisia Gentileschi utilized a harsh, theatrical "spotlight" effect known as __________.

​dramatic negative space

​In his Creation of Adam scene from the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo created the most __________ in the history of art as God reached out to spark life into Adam.

The Virgin Mary

​In the Gothic period, __________ assumed a new primary role of importance in art and architecture.

​faces that are calm and display no emotion

​Jacopo Pontormo's Mannerist Entombment depicts all of the following except __________.

hunting lodge

​King Louis XIV's Palace at Versailles was originally the site of his __________.

​compositional triangle

​Nicolas Poussin's Rape of the Sabine Women utilizes a(n) __________, thereby borrowing a Renaissance technique for structuring a balanced composition.

​the invasion of England by William the Conqueror

​Perhaps the most famous surviving tapestry is the 230-foot long Romanesque period Bayeux Tapestry, which describes __________ in a continuous narrative.

architecture

​Some of the purest examples of Renaissance Classicism are to be found in the __________ of Leon Battista Alberti.

​an influx of riches from the New World

​Spain was one of the wealthiest European countries during the Baroque and lavishly supported the arts, at least partly due to __________.

Rome; Reformation​

​The Baroque era was born in __________, at least in part as a reaction to the spread of Protestantism resulting from the __________.

surfaced with fine limestone

​The Great Pyramids at Giza were built with massive blocks and __________.

coffered

​The Pantheon's dome is __________ to lessen the weight of it both physically and visually.

humanism

​The ancient Greeks considered themselves to be the center of the universe or "the measure of all things," a concept known as __________.

​interactions of colors and contrasts of textures

​The forms and composition of Titian's Venus of Urbino were evolved primarily from __________.

Archaic

​The stylized faces of the man and wife represented on the Etruscan Sarcophagus from Cerveteri were most likely influenced by __________ sculpture.

Renaissance

​The word __________ is derived from the French and means rebirth.

​the papal apartments in the Vatican

​The young artist Raphael painted numerous canvases of the Madonna and Child, but some of his most impressive compositions, like The School of Athens, were executed for __________.

​barrel-vaulted chapel with holy and common figures

​Using the laws of perspective in his Holy Trinity fresco, Masaccio created the illusion of an extension of the architectural space of the church by painting a(n) __________.

​a single piece of almost unworkable marble

​When Michelangelo was only 27, he carved the 13½-foot statue of David from __________.

​Peter Paul Rubens

​Which of the following Baroque painters was an ambassador, diplomat, and court painter to dukes and kings and supervised a huge workshop of assistants?

​The colors are harsh and garish.

​Which of the following does not describe Jan Vermeer's Young Woman with a Water Jug?


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