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Earthware is heavier, is fired at a higher temperature (1200-1300) and is not porous

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False

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The potters wheel was invented in

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Mesopotamia

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Some of the worlds most spectacular carpets came from Islamic Persia during the Safavid dynasty

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True

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Dale Chilhuly is noted for his intricate and colorful works in

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glass

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in weaving, fibers are held in place on a

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loom

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In Muslim regions of the Middle East which craft was practiced with great sophistication

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Metal Inlay

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Glaze is a clay that is thinned to the consistency of cream and used as paint on earthware or stoneware ceramics

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False

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Which artist is know for creating "story quilts?"

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Faith Ringgold

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To be a ceramist one must

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work with clay

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which statement is NOT true about Peter voulkos

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he worked with fiber

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which material is said to possess a vitality or living spirit

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wood

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Tapestries are a traditional type of weaving in which carefully trimmed and dyed weft threads are pulled through stable warps to create patterns or pictures

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True

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which nineteenth century artist attempted to bring craft and fine art together by creating a design company

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William Morris

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Fiber arts divide into 2 general classes: work made with a loon, and work made off-loom or without a loom

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true

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stoneware is typically fired at a relativity low temperature (800-1100) and is porous after firing

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false

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one of the most magnificent domes in the world was designed for the Byzantine cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartes in Istanbul

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false

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the term used to discuss how a building stands up is

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structure

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in the crystal palace joseph Paxton made use of

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cast iron

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Zimbabwe means

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stone house

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Gothic builders were able to open large areas for windows because they used pointed arches and

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flying buttresses

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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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which architect famously stated less is more

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miles van der rohe

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the aqueducts bridge called the pont du gard near nimes frace is one of the fine steaming examples of the functional beauty of roman

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true

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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 international style expresses the function of each building its underlying structure and a logical usually asymmetrical plan that used only modern material such as concrete glass and steel

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true

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a colonnade is a beam of slab projecting a substantial distance beyond its supporting post or wall

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false

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a cantilever is a row of columns usually spanned or connected by beams

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false

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Leed gives awards for

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ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN

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a truss is a triangular framework used to span or support

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true

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which structure feature an arcade of round arches

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pont du gard

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Neolithic art is a very ancient period of art coincident with the Old Stone age before the discovery of agriculture and animal herding

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false

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during the Neolithic period art when from

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naturalistic to abstract

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early stone tools were developed about

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two million years ago

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some believed that the sculpture Woman of Willendorf was associated with

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the great mother goddess

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Paleolithic art is a period of art after the introduction of agriculture but before the invention of bronze

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false

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which of these is from the Neolithic period

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the earthenware beaker from Susa

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a ziggurat is a rectangular or square stepped pyramid often with temples at its tops

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true

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a petroglyph is a image or symbol in shallow relief on a rock surface usually ancient

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true

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The Mesopotamians built their temples such as that ur-nammu on type of structure called

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ziggurat

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hierarchic scale the use of unnatural proportions or scale to show the relative importance of figures

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true

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the word Neolithic means

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new stone age

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the pyramids of Egypt are among the words best know examples of

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commemorative monuments

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the ancient sumerians developed the worlds first wheel low and

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writing system

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which structure features a ring of post and lintels

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Stonehenge

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petroglyphs are made by

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scratching an image onto stone surface

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early Christian art was created in private homes and underground burial chambers called

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catacombs

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Romanesque is a style of European architecture prevalent from the ninth to twelfth centuries with round arches and barrel vaults

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true

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the meeting of decorative nomadic style and Christianity can be seen mostly clearly in illustrated books from

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Ireland

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portrait head of an hold man is an example of

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roman sculpture

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one feature that set gothic architects apart from Romanesque was the extensive use of

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stained glass

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gothic is primarily an architecture style that prevailed in western Europe from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries characterized by pointed arches ribbed vaults and flying buttresses

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true

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the Parthenon was designed as a gift to Athena parthenos goddess of wisdom and prudent warfare and protector of the Athenian navy

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true

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a basilica is an underground burial place in ancient Rome

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flase

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which of these structure is gothic

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norter dame de chartes

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the first large sculptures since roman times can be found in which part of the Romanesque churches

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over the central doorways

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a krater is an archaic gothic stature of standing nude young male

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false

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a kouros in classical greek art is wide mouth vessel with handles used for mixing wine and water for ceremonial drinking

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false

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which building was designed to the goddess of wisdom and prudent warfare

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the Parthenon

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in the eighth and ninth century the byzantine empire was wracked by the inocnoclatic controversy a debate over religious that at times turned violent

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true

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the first Christian churches were patterned after basilica that were used by the romans as

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government buildings

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genre painting in a type of art that takes as it subject everyday life

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true

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the influence of neoplatonism would be most likely when in painint a renaissance artist highlight a

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NUDE CLASSICLA GODDESS

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in the conversation of saint paul carvaggio created drama though the high contrast of light and dark and the use of extreme

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foreshortening

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in jan van eycks the arnolfini portrait the woman is wearing a green dress to symbolize

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fertility

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with its decorative and sensual qualilites the rococo style was particularly suited to the extracagant and often frivolous life of

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the French court and asistocracy

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Romanesque is a style of European architecture prevalent from the ninth to twelfth centuries with round arches and barrel vaults

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true

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The Mesopotamians built their temples such as that ur-nammu on type of structure called

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ziggurat

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michelangelos David has a naturalistic pose set in contrapposto demonstrating the influence of

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greek sculpture

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rococo is the seventeenth century period in Europe characterized in the visual arts by dramatic light and shade turbulent composition and pronounced emotional expression

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false

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masaccuos the holy trinity fresco is considered to be the first painting on the systematic use of

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linear perspective

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Many baroque characteristics developed as propaganda for the

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counter reformation

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in her painting judith and the maidservent with the head of holofemes .....

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caravaggio

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in the seventeenth century in the netherlands the major patrons of painting were

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the wealthy merchant class

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a still life painting of inanimate objects such as flowers...

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true

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all of the following artist sculptures the high renaissance except

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donatello

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the renaissance is the period in europe...

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true

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baroque style used in interior decoration...

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false

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