Global Prehistory
7 slabs found in caves in Namibia, around the time of the Apollo Space Missions.
What is are the Apollo 11 Stones?
Is a mixture of sand, tufa, hydraulic mortar and water. Can be molded, and became a very popular material to use in building.
What is concrete?
An Islamic/Muslim place of worship and prayer.
What is a Mosque?
Artists like Monet focused on light and fleeting moments in this movement.
What is Impressionism?
The city of Machu Picchu was built by this civilization.
Who were the Inka?
Structure made using post and lintel. And is thought to have calendar/astrological significance.
What is Stonehenge?
What is Augustus of Primaporta?
Artworks that have an emperor and empress holding items that have to do with the Eucharist. And are found in San Vitale!
What are the Mosaics depicting Justinian and Theodora?
Intuition, emotion, imagination, and spirituality!
What are the values of Romanticism?
A page that depicts the founding of Tenochtitlán, and has an Eagle landing on a cactus in the middle of the paper.
What is the Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza?
Rock paintings in a french Cave, discovered by 4 teenagers.
What is the Great Hall of Bulls?
This work covers both a preparation as well as the actual fighting of a war between Rome and Dacia.
What is the Column of Trajan?
The green dress the woman is wearing, as well as the oranges on the window sill (fruit could also be scene as a symbol for wealth).
What in The Arnolfini Portrait are symbols for fertility?
A painting with a 1-point linear perspective that leads the eye to a cluster of swords that are being sworn upon by three brothers.
What is the Oath of the Horatii?
This enormous earthwork in Ohio takes the shape of a serpent.
What is the Great Serpent Mound?
An extinct camel's hip bone carved to look like a coyote.
What is the Camelid Sacrum in the shape of a
canine?
Egyptian makeup "holder" that has a king wearing both the upper crown and lower crown on either side.
What is the Palette of Narmer?
The artist of Fruit and Insects. A painting from the Baroque period.
Who is Rachel Ruysch?
A painting that is part of a series called Disasters of War, and depicts the horrific conflict between France and Spain with an execution scene.
What is And There is Nothing to be Done?
One of the artifacts given by Motecuhzoma (Montezuma) to Cortez for Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire.
What is the Ruler’s Feather Headdress (Motecuhzoma II)?
Handmade clay beaker, often found buried in cemeteries.
What is Beaker with Ibex motifs?
A tomb that has walls covered with fresco paintings depicting the afterlife as one big celebration!
What is the Tomb of the Triclinium?
A diptych that has a tree thriving on the Protestant side, and dead on the Catholic side.
What is the Allegory of Law and Grace?
This architect designed Fallingwater.
Who was Frank Lloyd Wright?
This feathered serpent deity appears throughout Mesoamerican cultures.
Who is Quetzalcoatl?