Ancient Egypt
This was the key date that we used when studying Egypt.
What is 2500 BCE?
This sculptor created an important statue which embodied the ideas of perfect human proportion.
Who is Polykleitos?
Art during this period (1st C. CE) in Rome was made in service of this.
What is the Emperor or Empire?
The key Christian value expressed in our study of Byzantine art was that the spiritual realm was valued over this realm.
What is 'The physical (or material) realm'?
This is the time span that we generally think of when we think of the Italian Renaissance.
What is 1400 - 1600 CE? (or 15th C. CE)
This type of statue was placed in tombs as a place for the life force of the deceased to exist into the afterlife.
What is a Ka statue?
What are Gods and Heros?
During the Roman republic, these portraits were created to show a family's importance, or 'gravitas' by depicting individuals as old and care worn.
What are Veristic portraits?
Two parts:
1) This color and material is often found decorating the interior of Byzantine churches.
2) This technique was used to create spectacular murals which decorated the interior of Byzantine churches.
1) What is Gold?
2) What is Mosaic?
The term Renaissance means this.
What is Rebirth? or What is 'Rebirth of the Classical'?
This term means that the sizes of different figures indicates their importance.
What is 'Hierarchy of Scale'?
This is the date/century that we used when learning about the art and culture of Ancient Greece.
What is the 5th C. BCE?
Roman copies of Greek sculptures were often made using this type of white stone.
What is marble?
The emperor was depicted in art found in Byzantine churches in order to imply that his power came from this source.
What is God?
These two types of perspective were invented (or reinvented) and employed by painters during the Renaissance.
What are linear (one-point) and atmospheric perspective?
This material was often used to make sculptures found in Egyptian tombs.
What is stone? (or, more specifically, what is diorite?)
This material was often used by Ancient Greek sculptors but few original sculptures made from it survive today.
What is Bronze?
These types of structures showed the pride that Romans took in their military prowess.
What are Victory Columns?
or
What are Triumphal Arches?
Figures depicted in the murals found in Byzantine churches shared these three formal characteristics.
What are FLAT, SCHEMATIC, and STIFF? (will also accept: elongated, not realistic)
The use of this type of paint enabled Renaissance painters to achieve greater detail in their paintings.
What is Oil Paint?
This stance was often used to represent a figure moving into the afterlife.
What is one foot stepping forward?
This term refers to a type of pose characterized by balance achieved through opposition.
What is a Chiastic Pose?
It can be said that Roman art often served as this form of political tool for the Emperor.
What is Propaganda?
While churches in the Western Roman Empire relied on the Basilica Plan, Byzantine churches were often built using this type of plan involving a dome.
What is a CENTRAL PLAN?
These three artists are thought to embody the 'High Renaissance' in Italy.
Who are Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael?