He is known to have created the first code of law.
Who is Hammurabi?
100
Byzantine images that served as faith reminders until the emperor banned them, and iconoclasts destroyed them in the 8th century.
What are icons?
100
Form of performance art surfacing in the 1960s that challenged the viewer to actively participate in each piece.
What is Happenings?
100
The Communist revolutionary who came to be known as the father of the People's Republic of China.
Who is Chairman Mao Tse-tung?
100
Genre of art that combines more than two forms of visual art, such as painting, collage and ink.
What is mixed media?
200
Slits pierced into upper levels of temples for the purpose of creating light.
What is a clerestory?
200
Form of Jewish art commissioned for private use, and found in homes, for religious study and for a show of status.
What are illuminated manuscripts?
200
Used since Roman times, this technique of painting on wet plaster resurfaced in large Mexican murals painted in the 1920s-1950s.
What is fresco?
200
These wooden reliquary figures belong to the African Fang peoples of Cameroon.
What are byeri?
200
This architect is known for built a Roman museum that innovatively employed an horizontal, rather than vertical, arch design.
Who is Zaha Hadid?
300
Greek style of sculpture that first idealized the natural human form.
What is Classical Greek?
300
These are built to issue the call to prayer in mosques.
What are minarets?
300
Frank Lloyd Wright's building 1936 Fallingwater that blended into the surrounding nature defined this architectural style.
What is Prairie Style?
300
Found in both Asian and early European art, sculptural style where figures are piled on top of one another in a crowded composition.
What is horror vaculi?
300
The artist known for simulataneously challenging Western society and Islamic patriarchy with her art.
Who is Shirin Neshat?
400
Circular building in Rome commissioned by Hadrian around 120 C.E.
What is the Pantheon?
400
A brief, but influential, period of art lasting from 1650-1700 CE that focused on the theatrical and displayed movement similar to the Hellenistic Greek style.
What is the Baroque period?
400
The artistic movement of the early 19th century which functioned by eliciting the audiences senses in depicting the lives of the labor class.
What is Realism?
400
Created in 1070 C.E. in Ohio, this earthwork is considered a precursor of 1970 Great Spiral Jetty in Utah.
What is Great Serpent Mound?
400
The word for custom, belief of principle that distinguishes-and stereotypes-a group of people, and used by Doris Salcedo in 2007.
What is shibboleth?
500
The original form of building construction seen in Stonehenge.
What is post and lintel?
500
He was considered the most important member of the 16th century Venetian art school which blended aspects of Renaissance and Mannerist art forms.
Who is Titian?
500
Inspired by the life and work of Sor Juana, he painted a posthumous portrait of her in 1750.
Who is Miguel Cabrera?
500
The Hindu god known as both the destroyer and transformer.
Who is Shiva?
500
In the Vietnam Memorial, Maya Lin used this material to allow the viewer to see their reflection at the same time they read the name of their lost loved ones, creating a sense of connection between selves and throughout time.