Art test 3 – Flashcards
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The chances that a work of art from ancient times will be found or preserved are greatly increased i
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All these answers are correct
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The Woman from Willendorf is generally considered to be _______
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a fertility icon
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Because they lacked stone, the ancient Sumerians built their cities from
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sun - dried brick
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To compensate for the natural visual distortion in which tall columns appear to bend inward, the Greeks gave them a slight bulge, which is known as
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entasis
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All of the following cultures were Mesopotamian EXCEPT
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the Minoan
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The bronze head of an Akkadian ruler is a rare example of ________ in ancient art.
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naturalism
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The most notable example of Neolithic architecture in Europe is
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Stonehenge in England
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In Egyptian art, the convention of representing social importance by size -- for example, where the pharaoh is shown much larger than his subjects -- is known as
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hierarchical scale .
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Unde r the reign of ________, a new style of Egyptian art developed briefly with less rigid postures and more intimate and emotional relationships pictured .
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Nefertiti
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Th e earliest - known writing system, cuneiform, from which a recorded language developed was the invention of
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the Akkadians
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The lamassu from Ashurnasirpal II's palace in Nimrud had five legs because
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It would awe the viewer with its potential for movement.
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The sculpture Akhenaten and His Family is an example of the ________ technique
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sunken relief
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King Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered in 1922 by
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Howard Carte
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Three major cultures that preceded the Greeks in and around the Aegean Sea were the ________ cultures
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Cycladic, Minoan, and Mycenaean
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Although bronze was the favored material for freestanding sculpture in Greece, most bronze statues have not survived, because
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the Romans destroyed them when making marble copies.
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Romans could watch gladiators fight t o the death, along with other sporting events, at the
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Colosseum
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A prim e example of art from the Hellenistic era is
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the Laocoön Group
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According to historians, the Roman era began in 510 B.C.E. with
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the founding of the Roman Republic.
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Although we know almost nothing about the culture that created them, the abstract ________ of the Cycladic culture appear extremely sophisticated for five thousand year old works.
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female nude figures
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What destroyed the Roman colonies of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 C.E.
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the eruption of a volcano
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The mummy of Artemidoros, from Fayum, shows the influence of the ________ culture(s).
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Egyptian, Greek, and Roman
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The Great Sphinx at Giza, in Egypt, has the body of a lion and th e head of a (n
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pharoah
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What was the significance of the Rosetta Stone?
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It allowed archeologists to decipher hieroglyphs
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Why did Sir Arthur Evans believe he had found the ancient palace of King Minos?
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There were writings on the walls th at told of the ancient King
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Which of the Greek orders is the most ornate
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Corinthian
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Which culture influenced the early Greeks in their figurative types?
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Egyptians
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The kouros is from which period of Greek art?
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Archaic
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Greek sculpture from the Classical period, like the Doryphoros, was idealized because
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The Greeks wanted to memorialize their heroes
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From the Greek word for "marketplace" we get this word for fear of open places
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agoraphobia
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Where were the triglyphs and metope s on the Parthenon?
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on the pediment
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Who was the Parthenon dedicated to?
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Athena
