Module 1
A color's brightness or dullness.
What is Intensity?
A main contributor the the fall of the Assyrian Empire.
What is the cost of armies and palaces?
The two types of pottery used in Ancient Greece.
What is red-figure and black-figure pottery?
A type of art that survived iconoclasm.
What are books?
Term for the high potential of human nature.
What is Humanism?
The three primary colors.
What is red, yellow, and blue?
Wedge shaped parts that are pressed into clay with special writing tools.
What is Cuneiform?
The famous Greek temple, built to serve as a temple for the god of wisdom, Athena.
What is the Greek Parthenon?
These qualities describe a certain type of architecture: very tall buildings, stained glass windows, pointed arches, and flying buttresses.
What is Gothic architecture?
A word meaning "rebirth".
What is renaissance?
The place where all objects meet.
What is Vanishing Point?
The name of an Egyptian king who's tomb was famously never raided.
What is King Tut?
Trying to get a specific emotional response from a piece of art.
What is Expressionism?
The oldest surviving Islamic temple.
What is the Dome of Rock?
A famous chapel's ceiling that was painted using the fresco technique.
What is the Sistine Chapel?
The part of an artwork where the eye is drawn to.
What is Emphasis?
The largest pyramid of the Great Pyramids at Giza.
What is Khufu?
The technique used to make The Mask of Agamemnon out of gold.
What is repoussé?
The country from which Gothic architecture emerged.
What is France?
What is oil paint?
The three secondary colors.
What are orange, green, and purple?
A codified system of law created by Hammurabi.
What is the Stele of Hammurabi?
The three chief artistic achievements of the ancient Greeks.
What is pottery, architecture, and sculpture?
The reason that a significant amount of Byzantine art was destroyed.
What is Iconoclasm?
A work that focuses on depictions of natural scenery.
What is landscape?