Art exam study guide

We know about cultures from the ancient Americas through indigenous accounts, both oral and written,

European accounts that had direct contact with indigenous people, inscriptions on stone monuments, and the archaeological records.

The Moche earspool from Sipán (3.4.4)

was found in a royal tomb.

Baroque refers to the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries style in Western Europe, a period

when there was a general increase in drama, motion and emotion in artworks?

Renaissance means "rebirth"

and is used to describe an artistic movement characterized by renewed interest in the Classical world of Greece and Rome.

The cliff dwellings built by the Anasazi in Mesa Verde were constructed using local materials

available in the area, adobe, timber, and stone.

Tipis were portable dwellings made

by Plains Indians.

Textiles were considered the most valuable

by the Inca.

Gold was considered most valuable

by the Spanish.

The Raimondi Stela

is a stone monument.

The writing system developed by the Maya

is known as hieroglyphs.

Gold was important to the Moche culture because

it was associated with the sun's energy and power.

Mesoamerican art was made in the region

of modern-day Mexico and Central America.

Anasazi cliff dwellings were built to take advantage of sun and shade,

providing temperature control in different seasons.

Mannerism is used to describe the mid to late sixteenth-century style of art

that elongated human figures and elevated grace as an ideal.

Some of the oldest human-made objects found in

the Americas are Clovis points.

Paracas textiles have been preserved because

the climate in Peru is very dry.