Prehistory
The profile view
What is the way Paleolithic people represented animals?
Temple Platform
What is the most common function of the ziggurat?
Pyramids
What is the resting place for Kings common in the Old Kingdom period in Egypt?
Highly schematized
What is something that is overly stylized?
OR
What is a descriptive term for the Cycladic Figures?
Horus
Who is the god that appears as a falcon and is a protector of the pharaoh?
Survival of the herd
What is the most likely reason for Paleolithic cave paintings?
Votive Figures
These figures had enlarged and rounded eyes indicate their eternal wakefulness.
Palette of Narmer
What is the work likely made to commemorate the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt?
Tapering shape and a bulbous capital
What is the shape of a Minoan column?
Composite View
What is a view of humans or animals where different parts are facing different ways?
Health and fertility
What is the reason the anatomy of the Venus of Willendorf looks the way it does?
Persia
What region had Column capitals in the shapes of bull heads?
Colors do not last well.
What is a drawback of the fresco secco technique?
Mycenaean fortified palace
What is the site of Tiryns?
Narrative
What is telling a story in writing or artwork called?
Agriculture and Raising of animals
What is the biggest change from Paleolithic to Neolithic?
Hammurabi
Who is the Mesopotamian king that codified the law and prescribed penalties for infractions?
The hypostyle hall
What is a room filled with rows of columns called in the ancient world?
Minoan pottery with creamy white and reddish-brown motifs on a black background.
What is Kamares Ware?
Register
What is a defined set of bands around or across an artwork called?
Human Figure
What is the new content shown in paintings produced in the Neolithic period that is not shown in the Paleolithic period?
Royal power
What is the thematic emphasis of the murals that decorated Assyrian palaces?
She is wearing the royal headdress and kilt in her statue.
Who is Hatshepsut?
Landscape
What is the genres of the Spring Fresco from Akrotiri?
Hierarchy of scale
What is an artistic methodology that shows the importance of one object more than another?