Art Appreciation Unit 5 Review

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What is the importance of the construction method for Hawaiian feather cloaks?

AHU'ULA - a Hawaiian feather cloak or cape made of minute red or yellow bird feathers

The Aztecs established a powerful empire around ________ years after Teotihuacan, along with its Temple of the Feathered Serpent, had been abandoned.

700? 500?

Which two Gothic architectural innovations allowed cathedral walls to be built higher than before?

Flying buttresses and rib vaults

The Dome of the Rock is located in ________.

Jerusalem

Early wall paintings have been found in Çatalhöyük in modern ________.

Turkey

The medium of the Yoruba twin figure (3.5.3) is ________.

Wood, nails, camwood powder, brass, glass beads

Cliff dwellings, such as those built by the Anasazi in Mesa Verde, were constructed using which materials available in the area?

adobe, timber, and stone

We have found that many Roman houses in Pompeii had ________ covering the walls.

fresco paintings

Cimabue's student was ________.

giotto

An Archaic Greek sculpture portraying a nude male is called ________.

Kouros

The floor plan of the Romanesque Church of St. Foye in Conques, France, is ________.

Latin Cross

What is the medium used for the depiction of Theodora and Attendants in the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy?

Mosaic

The Great Sphinx is associated with which pharaoh's pyramid?

Pharaoh Khafre

Who developed a canon of harmonious proportions to be used for the portrayal of the ideal human body in sculpture?

Polykleitos

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

The Pyramid of the Sun is found at ________.

Teotihuacan aka Mexico City

The colossal sculpture of the Aztec mother goddess Coatlicue (3.4.16) is made of ________.

Terracotta? Stone?

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

Tesserae

Textile artist Sonoko Sasaki values ________ in her work.

a sense of the seasons

The depiction of a battle with the Sioux in 1797 painted on a Mandan robe (3.4.20) was created using ________.

wooden poles and animal hides

The earliest examples of Christian art have been discovered in ________.

Catacombs

What is the medium of the soldiers in the tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi?

Clay, Ceramics

The cross bars on the Kanaga mask made by the Dogon people of Mali (3.5.6) represent ________.

Lower Earthly realm Upper cosmic realm of the sky

The writing system developed by the Maya is known as ________.

Mayan script or hieroglyphics or Mayan glyphs

We know about cultures from the ancient Americas through ________.

all the previous answers (i.e.indigenous accounts, both oral and writtennone of the previous answersaccounts by Europeans that had direct contact with indigenous peoplescientific evidence, such as archaeological excavations and DNA testing)

The artistic traditions of Africa and the Pacific Islands share:

all the previous answers (i.e.prominence given to mythological beliefs, ancestor worship, and lineage a reliance on traditional methods of construction and decoration a tendency to integrate and respond to the environment)

The Parthenon in Athens used to house a huge gold-and-ivory statue of:

athena

In 1940 Matthew and Marion Stirling found ________ at the site of ________.

basalt altars, La Venta.

Japanese woodblock printer Kitagawa Utamaro was most famous for his depictions of ________.

beautiful women

The moai of Easter Island represent:

deified ancestors who were chiefs

The ________ in Wo-haw's self-portrait show the effect of the presence of European settlers on the Plains Indians of North America.

domesticated bull and cultivated fields

The written language used by the ________ is hieroglyphics.

egyptians

The life-sized bronze head of an Akkadian ruler (3.1.1) was discovered in present-day ________.

iraq

________ were symbolically important to textile manufacture and served as an inspiration for an Inca creation myth.

llamas

There are ________ placed on the spires of the Great Mosque at Djenné in Mali.

ostrich eggs

The Parthenon that still stands today in Athens was built after the city was invaded in 480/479 BCE by the:

persians

Gold was important to the Moche culture because ________.

symmetrical or Its symbolic association with the sun or Represented the Suns energy

Machu Picchu was built for ________.

the Inca emperor Pachacuti or As a royal estate and fortress

Paracas textiles have been preserved because ________.

the climate in Peru is very dry

A lamassu is a ________.

A guardian beast


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