What is the name of the Dynasty where some of China's most extraordinary art was created?
100
Jomon
What is the name of cord-impressed designs and also the name for the early period of Japanese art?
100
Eastern Woodlands culture
What is the culture renowned for their elaborate grave offerings, including copper plates and earspools, objects made of other minerals, shell and pearl beads, and ceramic vessels and figurines?
100
African Art
What is the name of the art that refers only to sub-Saharan African art and particularly to sculpture and carving (mostly in wood) from the vast area surrounding the Niger and Congo basins?
200
Edict pillars
What is erected throughout northern India by the Emperor Asoka to proclaim his devotion to Buddhism?
200
Ritual Bronzes
What is used to represent the clearest extant record of stylistic development in the Shang, Chou and Early Han dynasties?
200
The Narna Period
What is the name of the period in which clay figures and statues made in the dry-lacquer process attained great popularity?
200
The Buffalo
What is the mainstay of life for the indigenous Americans of the Great Plains (such as the Arapaho and Sioux) whose skin, both rawhide and tanned, was used for clothing, pipe containers, tepee covers, and shields?
200
Statuettes
What are almost always made from a single block from a tree, thus leading to elongation of the body with the arms held close to the sides, and foreshortening of the features?
300
Gandhara art
What is the name of the art that presents some of the earliest images of the Buddha?
300
Sung Dynasty
What is the dynasty where landscape painting reached its greatest expression?
300
emakimono
What is a long, narrow horizontal scroll called?
300
Featherwork
What is used for headdresses, capes, skirts, and mantles, in dance costumes, and as decoration, together with beads, on baskets?
300
The gold encrusted stool, former symbol of Ashanti royalty
What is the most renowned example of Ashanti metal work?
400
2C BCE
What is the century of Hellenistic art that influenced the Gandhara style profoundly?
400
Calligraphy
What is directly related to the mastery of brushwork?
400
The Fujiwara period
What is the period marked by the crystallization of the Yamato-e tradition of painting?
400
The southwest
What is the region pottery making, particularly of jars and bowls, is still today a highly developed art with a rich tradition extending back to pre-Columbian times?
400
akua'ba
What are the disc-headed fertility dolls called?
500
Ajanta
What is the cave of the most famous surviving Buddhist paintings?
500
Wang Hsi-chih
What is the name of the Master of calligraphy?
500
Muromachi period
What is the period that ushered in a renaissance of Chinese-style ink painting?
500
The Hopi and Zuni tribes
What are the tribes that developed brilliantly carved and ornamented kachina dolls to represent living spirits?
500
Yoruba
What is the largest and one of the most artistically prolific ethnic groups in West Africa?