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Mortality means:

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subject to death

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The earlist tombs were:

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hill shaped

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One examle of a Stone Age tomb is:

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Newgrange

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The Egyptians used the pyramid form to create the meeting place ___________.

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between life and eternity

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The Egyptians painted important people with their heads in profile and their eyes in __________.

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in frontal position

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The Etruscab tombs were very much like:

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houses

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The Soliders from Pit I from the tomb Shi Huangdi, China are made of:

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ceramic

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The Moche tombs revealed that gold and silver were:

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only for the elite

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Greek grave markers useally showed:

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quite everyday moments

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The Romans felt that family tombs were:

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ostentatious

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The bronze canopy in St. Peter's by Bernini is called a:

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baldacchino

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Probably the most famous ISlamic mausoleum is the:

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Taj Mahal

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A small shrine which contains the remains of a holy person is called:

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reliquaries

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In Africa, ___________ are venerated in sculptures

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ancestors

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European cemeteries were often organized eith in ___________ system or a picturesque, romantic one.

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grid

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The _______ Day of the Dead celebration is a remembrance of all the dead.

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mexican

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Memorial festivals held in New Ireland are called:

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malanggan

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Tribute in Light was displayed in:

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New York

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ncient tombs were often oriented to the movement of:

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sun and stars

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Newgrange, in Irelenad, was rediscovered in:

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in 1699

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Egyptin pharaohs were belived to be descendents of the most powerful god known as the:

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sun god

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Artistic devices used to glorify a ruler's image include an idealized image and;

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symbols

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In the Egyptian sculpture Menkaure and His Wife Queen Khamerernebty the figures are shown:

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standing side by side

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Justinian is shown as an:

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emprior

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This image is an example of a:

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mosaic

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The 12 figures flanking the Emperor Justinian in this image allude to:

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12 apocalypse

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The crowned head of an Oni demonstrated the Yoruba and Benin skills in:

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metalury

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In ancient Hawaii only royalty could own or wear precious objects made of:

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feathers

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Royal Kahili were simply

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fly whisk

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Triumph of the Will was a film glorifying:

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Hitler

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Achaemenid architecture is especially distinguished by:

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grand scale

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Versalles was built in the:

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buroke style

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The Lamassu was a figure which stood on:

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5 legs

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The House of Parliament were built in the _______ style

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gothic revival

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The Maori Meeting House represented the ______________ of a great ancestor.

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body

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To remember military victories the roman built:

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Arches

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An apotheosis means that someone has become

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deified

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A warrior on horseback is called:

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equisterian

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The Benin Plaque with Warrior and Attendants represented the Kings _____________.

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power

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Picasso's Guernica dramatized the 1937 destruction of the Basque capital during the:

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spanish civial war

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The Palette of King Narmer glorifies:

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the war

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The Assyrians dominated the Near East for over 300 years and were known for their:

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brutality and ruthlesness

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Fantastic creature, the Lamassu has the head of a:

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Lamassu

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England's House of Paliment used new building materials such as:

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cast iron

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The first to photograph war, _______________ made 3,500 photographs covering both sides of the U.S. Civil War.

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Mathew Braddy

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Art protesting a particular was was first seen:

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200 years ago

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Francisco Goya's the Executions of May 3rd 1808 sympathize with:

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the Spanish civil war

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Both Kathe Kollwitz and George Grosz

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show destructive energy of war

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Much of John Heartfields art protested against

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Nazi, Germany

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Robert Motherwell believed that abstraction communicated bed:

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struggle of life and death

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The surrealists believed in automatism which includes he idea of:

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intuition, spontaneity and accidental

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Tomatsu Shomei's photographs are of victims of:

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automatic bombing

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Eugene Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People is ___________in its portrayal of fighting a thrilling dangerous and liberating.

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romantic

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Leon Golb's Mercenaries I is particularly imposing because of its:

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11 ft tall and wide (size)

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Lewis Hine's photos of child laborers have long _________ which fully documented their youthfulness.

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titles

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Jacob Lawrence did a series of paintings describing the trials and tribulations of:

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African Americans

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The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti was done by:

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Ben Shahn

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Jacob Lawrence's artistic style was

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bold, flat, and symplified

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Edward Kienholz's work is based on his experiences as:

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mental hospital worker

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Ester Hernandez uses ___________ to make her artistic protests

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humor

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Yinka Shonibare's Mr. And Mrs. Andrews without their heads is a parody of a work by:

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gainsboro

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Abrogio Lorenzeti's Allegory of Good Government was

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narration of protest

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The ____________ Codex Barbonicus is a religious calendar hat was made during the period of the Spanish conquest.

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Aztec

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Viola's series titled The Passions i based on __________ paintings of figures in sorrow, ecstasy, or astonishment.

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modern/post modern

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The study for the portrait of Okakura Tenshin showed the Japanese characteristics of:

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flat and contoured lines

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In Pollock's Lucifer the style of painting is called_____________ in volved the motion of the artist's entire body.

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action

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Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet featured ____________ to show the artists state of mind.

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thick paint

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Chuck Close uses ______________ to convey importance in his portraits.

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scale

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Nancy Burson's Faces are portraits of children with:

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unusual faces

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Lucian Freud's Leigh under the skylight is a portrait of:

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unique man

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Rembrandt's portraits reveal that the Netherlands encouraged:

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individualism

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Frida Kahlo's many self portraits show her face as:

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unemoional

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A Yakshi is a representation of :

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fertility

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According to Protagoras "man is the __________ of all things"

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measure

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Doryphoros translates to:

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throwing speir vearear

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Doryphoros is idealized in several ways including:

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restrained emotions

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Traditional African sculptures portrays the frontal view as

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semetricial

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Many african sculptures considered the head and __________ as most important

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neck

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Laocoon and His sons revealed_______________ Greek attitudes about the body during the Hellenistic period.

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changes

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Medieval Christians felt the ___________ was more important than the _______________.

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soul/body

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Edward Muybridges photos og human bodies revealed his _____________attitude towards the human body.

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detached

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The Egypian _________________ connon, beun by Amenhotep III was a new aesthetic which rejected the rigid abstract style of the past for a mor flowing elegant naturalistic approach.

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armane

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Vincent Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gchet was a vehicle for commentary about _______________.

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suffering inherent modern life

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A _____________ pose depicts a figure standing naturally with one foot forward and one leg bearing most of the figures weight.

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contraposto

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_____________ is known for the use of stop motion photography to document the physical movement of humans and animals

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Edward Muybridge

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The publication of _______ theories of repression and neurosis influenced many artists of the late 19th centry

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sigma fraud

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Yoko Ono was part of the __________ movement in New York, which sought to create art as an artist-initiated experience rather than an art object like painting or sculpture

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flutis

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