Art 105 TEST 1 MINDTAP QUIZ QUESTIONS ch. 1-4

Archaic Greece

At Persepolis, the style of the processional reliefs depicting representatives of many nations is highly reminiscent of which contemporaneous culture?

Mesopotamia

In what region did the change from hunter-gatherer to farmer-herder first occur?

Standing still, as seen from the front; walking, as seen from the side

Is this lamassu depicted as standing still or in a walking motion?

Mammoth ivory

The human with feline head discovered in Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany, is carved from what material?

The ben-ben

What do art historians now believe was the model for the shape of the pyramids at Gizeh?

Fertility figure

What do art historians suspect is the purpose of the Venus of Willendorf?

Ziggurat

What earlier architectural form does the stepped pyramid resemble in form but not purpose?

The tall royal headdress and ceremonial beard

What element of this sculpture communicates the figure's royalty?

The settlement into organized societies around agriculture

What great human advance accounts for the Neolithic origins of metalwork, weaving, pottery, and simple clay records?

Epic of Gilgamesh

What is the most famous Sumerian work of literature?

Repoussé

What metalworking technique was used to make the Vapheio cup and the Mycenaean gold mask?

Descriptive inscriptions

What pictorial narrative convention is not present on the Warka Vase?

Frescoes

Which art form has been useful to art historians and archaeologists because it depicts many aspects of Minoan life?

The breasts and the hips

Which bodily features are emphasized in this sculpture?

Horus

Which falcon-headed god was the son of Osiris and hunted down his father's murderer, Seth?

Some are painted in outlines, and others are filled in with color.

Which statement best describes how these animals are painted?

The artist has mixed frontal and profile depictions of the bodies.

Which statement best describes the depiction of the bodies in this sculpture?

It is static and contained

Which statement best describes the form of this female figure?

Imhotep and Djoser

Who is the first known named artist, and who was his patron?

Female Humans

Cycladic figurines share which subject with Paleolithic art?

The curving forms contradicted the rigid lines of the traditional Egyptian canon just as Akhenaton's new religion contradicted the old

How and why does the style of the Amarna period depart from the traditional Egyptian canon?

Skin color

How are men and women distinguished in this painting?

They are made using brushes on a prepared surface.

How do the materials of the paintings from Çatal Höyük differ from Paleolithic paintings?

The pharaoh is depicted with an emphasis on the curves and swells in the belly, hips, and lips.

How has the sculptor depicted this Egyptian pharaoh?

They are all rendered in tight, abstract patterns of curls

How has this artist rendered the beards and hair of the figures in this sculpture?

As a sun disk

How was the sole god of Akhenaton represented in Egyptian art?

Frontality and cylindrical volume

The Eshnunna votive statuettes and the statue of Napir-Asu share what formal characteristics?

Lion

The reliefs from the palace at Ninevah show Ashurbanipal hunting which creature?

It has the head of a man and the body of a winged bull

This kind of figure is called a lamassu. Which statement best describes this sculpture?

The rock-cut tomb

What Middle Kingdom form took on the function of the Old Kingdom mastabas?

The combination of straight and curved forms

What architectural form makes this temple at Hagar Qim especially noteworthy?

Post and lintel

What architectural technique is used at the far-flung Neolithic sites of Hagar Qim and Stonehenge?

Ashlar masonry

What do art historians call the courses of dressed stones used in the construction of the Great Pyramids?

The paintings were done over many years by many different artists.

What is the most likely explanation for the lack of consistent ground line, the different drawing techniques, and the overlapping figures in the cave paintings of the Paleolithic in Europe?

Senenmut

What is the name of the chancellor/architect-engineer who served during the reign of Hatshepsut?

Protome

What is the name of the sculptural element in the form of a bull shown here?

Although these are archaeologically the oldest Paleolithic paintings, they exhibit advanced painting features and narrative content

What is the seeming contradiction in the paintings of the Chauvet cave?

They refer to the unification of the kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt

What is the symbolism of the crowns worn by the king on the Narmer palette?

Palette of Narmer, showing the events of the unification of Egypt

What is the title and subject of the artwork shown here?

The light-colored figures stand out against uniformly dark backgrounds

What similarity is shared by all four of the scenes depicted here?

The Royal Cemetery at Ur

What site did Leonard Woolley excavate in the 1920s in southern Mesopotamia?

temple

What structure formed the nucleus of a Sumerian city?

Mesolithic era

What transitional period occurred just before Europe became climatically, geographically, and biologically much as it is today?

Nile River

What was the lifeline of ancient Egypt?

immortality

What was the primary objective of mummification?

Equating the deceased's existence in the afterlife to life on earth

What was the primary purpose of most Egyptian funerary art?

To highlight the divinity of the pharaoh

What was the purpose of Egyptian royal portraiture?

Protection

What was the purpose of the Assyrian lamassu?

Africa

Where do scientists believe humankind originated?

Sumerians

Which group is credited with developing the first known writing system?

The figure is an accurately rendered portrait of a known historical figure

Which of the following is not an important milestone represented by the bronze head of an Akkadian ruler?

A historical memorial

Which of the following is not thought to be the function of the megalithic monument at Stonehenge?

They are seen from the side

Which of these choices best describes the animal figures in this cave painting?

Some of the figures combine human and animal features

Which of these choices best describes the figures depicted here?

Assyrians

Which people ruled an empire extending from the Persian Gulf to Asia Minor in the first half of the first millennium BCE?

Akhenaton

Which pharaoh abandoned the worship of the multitude of Egyptian gods in favor of Aton?

Fertile Crescent

Which phrase is often used to describe Mesopotamia?

The bull-headed harp and the Standard of Ur

Which two objects share decorative technique and materials?

Djoser

Who of the following was not a Fourth Dynasty pharaoh?

This was where priests stood to await the appearances of the divinity.

Why did the Sumerians refer to their temples as "waiting rooms"?

It allows a complete depiction of the concept of the animal

Why is the inferred purpose of the twisted perspective used to depict animals in the Lascaux caves?