This religion, along with Hinduism, has had a tremendous impact on Indian architecture and sculpture.
What is Buddhism?
100
This period in Japanese art resulted in the creation of many elaborate screen paintings, with strong and thick colors against a gold background.
What is the Momoyama Period?
100
In China, this style of art was traditionally viewed as the highest art form, and was often completed on elaborate scrolls.
What is calligraphy?
100
These African peoples are known for their fertility dolls with spoon-shaped heads.
Who were the Ashanti?
100
This ancient Peruvian civilization produced massive lines in the forms of animals.
Who were the Nazca?
200
These mound-shaped structures were covered in bas-reliefs, and typically housed Buddhist sculpture.
What is a stupa?
200
This school of woodblock printing colorfully depicted scenes from everyday life.
What is Ukiyo-e?
200
This style of Buddhist shrine originated in the T'ang Dynasty, but was later expanded upon in years to come.
What is a pagoda?
200
This West African people created cylandrical ancestral figures, with abstract forms and softwood masks.
Who were the Dogon?
200
Perhaps the most iconic monument of Inca civilization, this structure remained untouched by the conquistadores?
What is Macchu Picchu?
300
Under this dynasty, the famous "Shiva as King of Dance" sculpture was created.
What is the Chola Dynasty?
300
This early era of Japanese art is known for the original use of traditional ink and watercolor techniques?
What is the Nara Period?
300
In the Sung Dynasty, this painter created his signature work, "Travelers Amid Streams and Mountains."
Who is Fan Ku'an?
300
These populous African people from Northern Gabon are known for their mortuary heads and figures, which are known to display a unique and powerful geometric style.
Who were the Fang?
300
This tribe built a great temple in modern Tikal, Guatemala.
Who were the Maya?
400
These great temples, created under the Chandella Dynasty, featured massive conical spires and housed large amounts of sculpture.
What are the Khajuraho Temples?
400
This period of Japanese art included the lives of portrait painters Takanobu and Nobuzane, and occured during a period of military governmental rule.
What is the Kamakura Period?
400
This form of sculpture, originally created in the Shang Dynasty, resulted from years of experimenting with metalwork.
What are ritual bronzes?
400
This southwestern Nigerian tribe is known for wooden masks and highly secretive religious cult objects.
Who were the Yoruba?
400
This tribe, a contemporary of the Nazcas, created functional painted pottery in realistic human forms.
Who were the Mochica?
500
Under the Maurya Dynasty, many columns were created featuring capitals shaped like this animal.
What is a lion?
500
This tradition of painting took clear form in the Fujiwara period of painting.
What is Yamato-e?
500
This dynasty finished the Great Wall of China, after many generations of work.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
500
These wooden hemispherical masks were crafted by the Baluba people.
What is a kifwebe mask?
500
This tribe, noted for their masterful stone carving, often utilized a motif combining human and jaguar features.