Ancient Near East, Ancient Egypt, and Ancient Aegean
Ancient Greece/Etruscan (pre-Rome)
Ancient Rome
Early Christian, Byzantine, Islamic, Medieval
Renaissance-Present
100
Stonehenge used this method of construction in which two posts support a horizontal beam.
What is post-and-lintel?
100
In the High Classical period (ca. 450-400 BCE), this canon served as the template for the perfect statue.
What is Polykleitos' canon of proportions?
100
This ruler was the first emperor to wear a beard and he built the Pantheon, a triumph of concrete technology.
Who is Hadrian?
100
This term was used to describe Christ in Middle Byzantine churches (ca. 840-1200 CE).
What is Pantokrator?
100
The emphasis on education and the encouragement of knowledge (esp. of classical antiquity); also promotes individual potential and encourages civic duty.
What is Humanism?
200
Under Gudea of Lagash, he employed this material to place numerous portraits of himself in temples as votive offerings to the gods.
What is diorite?
200
Instead of marble pediment statuary, the Etruscans used this form of statuary to decorate the roof.
What is terracotta statuary?
200
This term means superrealistic and was used for portraits of old men from distinguished families during the Republic.
What is veristic?
200
This patron and ruler built Hagia Sophia, San Vitale, and rebuilt the monastery at Mount Sinai in Egypt.
Who is Justinian?
200
This artistic period reflected the influence of Japanese prints and photography, and they often have arbitrarily cut-off figures and settings seen at sharply oblique angles.
What is Impressionism?
300
This work is significant because of its portable size and may have served as a fertility object.
What is Venus of Willendorf?
300
The south porch of this architecture features caryatids with contrapposto stances.
What is the Erechtheion?
300
This artwork was created to present Augustus's new order as a Golden Age equaling that of Athens under Pericles.
What is Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace)?
300
This architecture marks the triumph of Islam in Jerusalem on a site sacred to Muslims, Christians, and Jews.
What is the Dome of the Rock?
300
This series by William Hogarth consists of six paintings that satirize English marital immoralities of the moneyed class.
What is Marriage à la Mode?
400
Under this individual's reign, a short-lived artistic revolution in which undulating curves and anecdotal content replaced the cubic forms and impassive stillness of earlier Egyptian art.
Who is Akhenaton?
400
During this artistic period, sculptors explored new subjects- Gauls with strange mustaches and necklaces, impoverished old women- and treated traditional subjects in new ways- athletes with battered bodies and faces, and openly erotic goddesses.
What is the Hellenistic Period (Ancient Greece)?
400
Diocletian (r. 284-305 CE) reestablished Roman order by creating a new power. He created statues in honor of this power to portray identical and equal rulers.
What is the four tetrarchs?
400
This patron built the first Gothic church, Saint-Denis. He used rib vaults with pointed arches and stained glass.
Who is Abbot Suger?
400
This patron commissioned the Spanish Baroque artist Diego Velázquez.
Who is Philip IV?
500
This work of narrative art commemorates the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt into a single under the rule of a divine pharaoh ca. 3000 BCE.
What is the Palette of King Narmer?
500
During this artistic period (ca. 700-600 BCE), the Etruscans traded metals for foreign goods and began to produce jewelry and other luxury objects decorated with motifs.
What is the Orientalizing Period?
500
This style wall painting is recognized for its delicate linear fantasies sketched on monochromatic backgrounds.
What is the Third Style?
500
The leading patrons of Romanesque sculpture and painting were the monks of this order.
What is the Cluniac order?
500
These artists worked on the architecture of St. Peter's Basilica.
Who are Bramante, Michelangelo, Maderno, Bernini?
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