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which one of these 19th-century African-American artists received extensive education in Europe and was the first one to gain international recognition

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Robert S. Duncanson

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A subcategory of constructed sculpture- as seen in the works of Deborah Butterfield- that involves the use of familiar objects in new ways is:

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Assemblage

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Which work is an example of assemblage

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pablo picasso bulls head

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casting method often used for bronze

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lost-wax process

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Using 3-dimensional media to visually tell a story, often involving an entire space.

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installation

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sculpture that moves

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kinetic

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. Sculpture that is not freestanding, but projects slightly from a surface.

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bas-relief

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The Chicago School's contribution to 20th-century architecture was

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skyscrapper

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Which architect famously stated " Less is more"?

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Mies van der Rohe

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Falling water

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Frank Lloyd wright 1936

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Wainwright Building, 1890

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Louis Sullivan

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Domino Construction System, 1914

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Le Corbusier

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Bauhaus, 1926

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Walter Gropius

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the intersection of two barrel vaults

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Groin vault

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triangular framework used to span or support

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Trusses

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the overhanging portion of a beam or slab extended beyond its means of support

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Cantilever

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The 25,000-year-old Venus of Willendorf is associated with

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the Great Mother Goddess

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Lyre from the Kings Grave

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Wood, gold, lapis lazuli, shell and silver

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Head of Akkadian Ruler

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bronze

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King Menkaure and Queen Khamerenebty

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Greywacke stone

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Wall Painting from the Tomb of Nabamun

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Paint on dry plaster

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Petroglyphs are made by

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scratching an image onto a stone surface

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Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project is an example of

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site-specific art

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The Crystal Palace by Joseph Paxton is an excellent example of architecture using

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Cast iron, glass and prefabricated modular units

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Who led the Chicago School and is generally regarded as the first great modern architect?

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louis sullivan

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Aqua Tower, Chicago

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Green design

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Hagia Sophia, Instanbul

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Dome on pendentives

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Jeppesen Terminal Building, Denver

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Suspension

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Seagram Building, NYC

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Steel-frame construction

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During the Neolithic period, art went from

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naturalistic to abstract

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Which is NOT true about Egyptian art?

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its main focus was on life here on earth

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Michelangelos's Awakening Slave is a good example of this kind of sculpture:

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subtractive

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Gothic builders were able to open large wall areas for windows because of the use of:

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pointed arches and flying buttresses

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The ancient Sumerians developed the world's first wheel, plow and

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writing system

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The Mesopotamians built their temples, such as that of Ur-Nammu, on a type of structure called a

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ziggurat

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Robert Longo's Corporate Wars: Wall of Influence is an example of

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a high-relief sculpture

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Which structure features an arcade of round arches?

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Pont du Gard

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Alexander Calder was one of the first artists to explore the possibilities of

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kinetic sculpture

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Who led the Chicago School and is generally regarded as the first great modern architect?

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Louis sullivan

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The Seagram Building is created using steel-frame construction and glass curtain walls - this is typical of the

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international style

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Stonehenge

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Neolithic England

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Great Pyramids at Giza

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Egypt Old Kingdom (c. 2500 BCE)

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Ziggurat of Ur-Nammu

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Mesopotamia (Sumer)

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Chauvet Cave paintings

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Paleolithic France

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What is true about ancient Roman art?

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All of the above

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Below are the names of four celebrated sculptors of classical Greece. Which one wrote a treatise on the perfect proportions and developed the canon (set of rules) for constructing the ideal human figure?

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Polykleitos

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In sculpture, contrapposto (meaning counter-poised) describes a pose, in which the weight is shifted on one leg and one part of the body is slightly turned in opposition to another. The Greek statue of _________ is an excellent example of contrapposto.

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The Spear Bearer by Polykleitos, 5th century B.C.E.

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Why are the Middle Ages called middle? The Middle Ages (also called the medieval period) spanned a 1,000-year period between two classical cultures: Greco-Roman (when classical ideas emerged) and Italian Renaissance (when these ideas were revived

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true

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Basilica

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Rectangular building ending with an apse.

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Catacombs

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Underground burial chambers in Rome

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Icons

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Small paintings serving as holy images.

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Tessera (pl: tesserae)

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Small piece of colored glass, ceramic tile or stone used in a mosaic

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The Renaissance period lasted about 300 hundred years (roughly 1300 - 1600) and has been traditionally revered for its artistic achievements. The French word Renaissance literary means "rebirth." Revival of which culture gave this period its name?

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Classical Greece and Rome

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Observe the illusionistic rendition of a chapel niche in the Holy Trinity fresco by Masaccio. Which technique allowed him to achieve such a convincing three-dimensional effect in painting on a flat wall?

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linear perspective

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A Baroque painting that features subjects (typically foodstuffs, household utensils, and flowers) arranged on a horizontal surface, like a tabletop, is called a Still Life. Which Spanish painter was renowned for this genre of painting:

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Juan van der Hamen

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The heightened emotions and dramatic use of light make The Conversion of Saint Paul by Caravaggio a prime example of _________ art.

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Baroque

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Which fact about the Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci is not correct?

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His works portray people in a stylized medieval manner, and not as individuals.

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Christ and the Apostles (Early Christian art, catacombs, Rome

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Fresco

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Christ as Pantocrator (Cathedral in Monreale, Italy)

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Mosaic

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Madonna and Child (Byzantine icon)

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Painting (tempera on wooden panel

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Christ as Pentecost (Saint Madeleine Cathedral, France)

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Stone relief

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The churches built in the Romanesque style look "Roman-like." Which characteristic is not relevant to Romanesque architecture?

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Lack of any sculptural decoration.

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Which statement about early Christian art is not correct?

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From the beginning, Chritian religion and art were welcomed in Rome

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Purse Cover (gold, enamel)

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Early Medieval (Animal style

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Empress Theodora (mosaic)

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Byzantine style

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Christ of the Pentecost (sculptural relief)

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Romanesque style

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Notre Dame de Chartres (cathedral)

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Gothic style

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Among these great masters of the Italian Renaissance, four are painters and one is a sculptor. What is the name of the sculptor who revived the Greek ideal of a perfect human figure?

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Donatello

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Early Renaissance in Italy

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Masaccio

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High Renaissance in Italy

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Michelangelo

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Late Renaissance in Italy

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Veronese

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Renaissance in Northern Europe

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Jan van Eyck

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Below are listed four great artists of the Northern Renaissance. One of them specialized in genre paintings, depicting the scenes of everyday life. He created a famous series of paintings showing the human activities of the twelve months of the year.

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Peter Bruegel

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Which country was the homeland of the Renaissance?

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Italy

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The Laocoon Group, when unearthed in Rome in 1506 (almost 2,000 years after its creation!), had a strong influence on the great Renaissance sculptor Michelangelo. Which statement is not true about this marble sculpture?

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It expresses the clarity, balance and restraint of classical art

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The Greek temple Parthenon was built in the classical period and dedicated to _______, the goddess of wisdom and protector of the Greek navy.

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athena

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Capital

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Top part of column.

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Metope

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Square panel with sculpture (part of frieze, above the colonnade).

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Pediment

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Triangular area atop the narrow end of Greek temple (formed by gables).

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Entasis

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Slight swelling in the center of column.

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Early Medieval period

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5th -10th centuries (400s - 900s)

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Romanesque period

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11th - 12th centuries (1000s - 1100s)

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Gothic period

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12th-14th centuries (1100s - 1300s)

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Diego Velazquez

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The Maids of Honor (La Meninas)

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Peter Paul Rubens

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The Raising of the Cross

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Rembrandt van Rijn

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Return of the Prodigal Son

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Jan Vermeer

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The Kitchen Maid

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Baroque art in Catholic Italy and Flanders

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Religious subjects glorifying saints and miracles

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Baroque art in Protestant Dutch Republic

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Secular subjects - landscapes, daily life genre scenes, still life, portraits

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Baroque art in Royal France

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Scenes of aristocratic life, gallant courtship, and festivities

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The Renaissance in Northern Europe inherited from medieval art the love for symbols. Thus, in The Arnolfini Portrait, painted by the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck, the dog is a symbol of fidelity, while the green color of the bride's dress symbolizes _

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fertility

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Birth of Venus by Botticelli

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Tempera on canvas

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The Babe in the Womb by Leonardo

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Drawing (pen and ink)

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St. Paul Preaching at Athens by Raphael

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watercolor

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Mary Magdalene by Donatello

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Carving (wood, partially gilded)

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Which fact alludes to a controversial aspect of Botticelli's mythological painting Birth of Venus, as it was seen in 15th-century Florence?

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A nude pagan goddess was placed in a position previously reserved for the Virgin Mary.

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the Roman nobility loved luxury and decorated their villas with sophisticated wall paintings - vividly colored and showing some form of perspective. The best preserved examples of these frescoes come from the city of _________ that was buried under the volcanic ash of Vesuvius in 79 C.E.

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Pompeii

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Which technique did the Christians use to render the holy images on the walls and vaults of the Roman catacombs?

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fresco

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The interior of San-Vitale Church in Ravenna (Italy) is richly decorated with glittering mosaics. The Empress Theodora serves as an example of the Byzantine style, characteristics of which are listed below. There is one incorrect statement that asserts just the opposite - which one is it?

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Figures are depicted in a realistic manner - looking like real people.

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Coffer

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Decorative recessed square (on ceiling surface).

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Pantheon

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Temple dedicated to all gods (also, community of all gods)

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Portico

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Columned porch (entrance)

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Dome

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Hemispherical roof (half of a sphere).

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Michelangelo gave the most powerful expression to the principles of classical sculpture. The contrapposto of his monumental David - a pose with the weight of the body on one foot - was first introduced about 2,000 years earlier, by the classical sculptors of

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ancient Greece

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Masaccio

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Linear perspective

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Sfumato and chiaroscuro

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Jan van Eyck

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Oil painting

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This work of art tells a dramatic story about the Trojan priest who tried to warn his people against bringing into the city of Troy the wooden horse (with cunning Greek warriors inside) - and for this, he was punished by the Greek gods.

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The Laocoon Group

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nave

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Central, main aisle of the church.

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transept

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Part (aisle) that crosses the main axis

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apse

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Semicircular projection

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atrium

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Open entrance court (in front of a basilica and earlier in Roman houses).

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This Italian artist is considered a precursor of the Renaissance. As early as 1305, he departed from the abstract Byzantine style and began depicting the real feelings and appearances of human beings, as can be seen in his Lamentation fresco (Scrovegni Chapel, Padua. Detail).

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Giotto

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Caravaggio and Bernini

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italian

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Rembrandt and Vermeer

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Dutch

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Velazquez

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Spanish

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Fragonard

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French

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Which artist inserted his own portrait in his painting of a Spanish royal family from 1665?

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Diego Velazquez

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In the last 300 years B.C.E., the Greek city-states declined and a new artistic style was formed that was more dynamic and emotional. Mediterranean art created during this period is called _________ (meaning Greek-like).

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Hellenistic

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This Flemish artist was a leading proponent of the Baroque style in Northern Europe. He was also a diplomat and prominent humanist scholar.

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Peter Paul Rubens

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Which statement is not correct about Return of the Prodigal Son, painted by one of the world's most revered artists - Rembrandt van Rijn?

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It is a typical example of Rococo style

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Krater

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Vessel with handles (for mixing wine and water)

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Kouros

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Male youth.

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Kore

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Female youth.

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Classical

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Related to logical simplicity, balance and restrained emotion

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The Baroque style emerged at the end of the Renaissance and roughly spanned the 17th century. Which feature is not characteristic of Italian Baroque art?

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logically balanced composition

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The oldest of three, a true Renaissance man; creator of Mona Lisa and Last Supper.

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Leonardo

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The world's greatest sculptor, who also painted the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel.

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Michelangelo

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The youngest painter known for his gentle Madonnas and School of Athens fresco in Vatican

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Raphael

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Name the prominent Italian sculptor who carved the marble statues of David and The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa.

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Bernini

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The sculpture Protective Prow Figure from a War Canoe from the Solomon Islands, represents the Oceanic belief in _________, which means "spiritual power."

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Mana

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Known for their massive, carved and often reclining figures, the ________ initiated a major new era in Central Mexico before the Aztecs.

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toltec

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Many Chinese bronze vessels are decorated with a taotie mask which shows a

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monster with wings, claws and horns

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Japanese ukiyo-e prints, like Kitagawa Utamaro's Reflected Beauty, depict

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the everyday world

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One of the most famous monuments in Cambodia, ___________ features scenes from the life of the Hindu god Vishnu

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Angkor Wat

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Japanese artist Sesshu Toyo's hanging scroll, Splashed Ink Landscape is an example of a style of painting called ___________, which means "flung ink."

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haboku

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The ____________, is an Islamic holy book which illustrates the most respected form of Muslim calligraphy.

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Qur'an

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In Hopi and Zuni culture, male members of tribes dress as birds, animals, clowns and demons to impersonate __________, which means invisible life force spirits.

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kachinas

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A tower that is used to call the faithful to prayer.

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Minaret

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A place of worship for followers of Islam.

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Mosque

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A niche in a building which points the way to Mecca

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Mihrab

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A Muslim theological school.

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Madrasa

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Head, Nok Culture

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One of the oldest surviving examples of Sub-Saharan art, this life-sized sculpture of a human head is made from terra cotta and shows a vivid facial expression and abstracted eyes and nose.

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Male Portrait Head, Ife Culture

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his sculpture, made from thin, hollow metal shows a naturalistic head with many fine details as it might appear in real-life

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Benin Head, Benin

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. This somewhat abstract sculpture was intended to glorify an oba, or king, or distinguished ancestors.

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Large Dance Headdress, Cameroon

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This reinterpretation of a human head, made of carved wood, shows different patterns and textures.

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curtain wall

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an exterior wall that is not load bearing

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LEED gives awards to architects for

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environmental design

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"Metallic flower" is the description given by

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Frank Gehry to his Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

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The artist Jan Vermeer of Delft painted many views of of his native town, where he lived all his life. What kind of painting is his name most closely associated with?

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Small paintings of simple and clean Dutch middle-class dwellings and landscapes.

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In the Dutch Republic -- Holland, the major patrons and buyers of art were:

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middle-class merchants and bankers

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Oldest, simplest and most sturdy in appearance

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doric

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Taller, more elegant capital enhanced with volutes

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ionic

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Complex capital composed of ornamental leaves.

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corinthian

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Ireland was Christianized in the 5th century. After the fall of Rome, the Irish monasteries became the centers of learning and art. The monks were copying the holy books by hand and decorated these manuscripts with intricate interlacing patterns. In which period of the Middle Ages was the Book of Kells produced?

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Early Medieval period

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Eliminate (check) the incorrect fact below about the life and work of the influential Renassance architect Andrea Palladio whose buildings exemplify the revival of classical architecture.

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His influence was limited only to Italy.

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In the mid 18th century, the dramatic splendor of Baroque art gave way to this decorative playful style:

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Rococo

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Baroque in Holland

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Allied with Protestant Reformation.

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Baroque in Italy

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Allied with Counter-Reformation (Catholic Church's response to Reformation).

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Baroque in France

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Allied with aristocracy and royal court.

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Which structure features a ring of posts and lintels?

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stonehenge

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Early stone tools were developed about

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2,000,000 years ago 2 million years ago

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Sculpture that is created by removing material, as from a block of wood or stone, is called___________________ sculpture.

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subtractive

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This grandiose amphitheater, built in 80 C.E., was named _________ (meaning gigantic).

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Colosseum (in Rome)

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The impressive head of the Roman emperor __________ represents a new type of sculptural portrait in the Late Roman Empire. It is one of a few remaining pieces of a colossal statue.

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Constantine

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Hellenistic period (dynamic, theatrical, sensuous)

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The Laocoon Group

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Classical period (proportional, balanced, restrained emotions)

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Spear Bearer

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Archaic period (rigid frontal poses, showing Egyptian influence)

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Kouros

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The stained glass windows, so typical of Gothic architecture, filled the churches with majestic light - a medieval metaphor for God's divine presence. The luminous round window, "Rose de France," in the cathedral Notre Dame de Chartres is dedicated to ______

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the virgin mary

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The Laocoon Group, when unearthed in Rome in 1506 (almost 2,000 years after its creation!), had a strong influence on the great Renaissance sculptor Michelangelo. Which statement is not true about this marble sculpture?

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It expresses the clarity, balance and restraint of classical art

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