Prehistory
1st depiction of nudity in art
What is Venus (Woman) of Willendorf
3 aesthetic features of Egyptian art
What are composite pose, move towards realism, larger eyes, limited clothing, red/yellow more men/women, hieratic scale for gods, etc.
Lincoln Memorial is based upon ________________.
What is Zeus at Olympia sculpture
2 reasons Rome fell and began the Dark Ages
What are budget mismanagement, printing money, limited technological development, outsourcing, etc.
1st artist name known in history
Who is Imhotep
Term for when women artistically capture the spirit so the men can kill the animal
What is sympathetic magic
The most influential visual artwork ever developed in Mesopotamia was ________________.
What is Stela of Hammurabi
Most important artwork in Classical art
What is Iliad
__________ architecture incorporated pointed arches, stained-glass windows and flying buttresses
What is GOTHIC
Pyramid of Djoser is based upon what earlier artwork
What is a ziggurat
Most significant artistic invention of Prehistory
What is Art
Reason why early civilizations developed where they did
What is access to river water as humans die afte 72 hours without water
Artwork that defines male gender even today
Spearbearer
Style of Romanesque Church that is highly decorated and encourages people to worship for long periods every day
What is Cluniac
What author invented our modern understanding of Hell
Who is Dante
Most common form of architecture today
What is post and lintel
4 major inventions of the Mesopotamian time period
What are writing, legal codes, irrigation, agriculture, city-states, taxes, literature, god in art, etc.
Name 3 artists from ancient Greece
Who are Homer, Polykleitos, Praxiteles, Phidias, Chares of Lindose, etc.
Inventor of Gothic Art
What is Abbot Suger
Term for colorful, expensive Medieval books for Christians who couldn't read
What are illuminated manuscripts
Name three Prehistoric artworks
What are Venus of Willendorf, Lascaux Caves and Stonehenge (or others)
3 conepts of death Egypt gives to 72% of world today
What are at death you become an ancestor, ancestral spirits are 10-100x more powerful, ancestral spirits help living by praying to the gods, and/or reward/punishment for behaviors in life
3 ways ancient Roman art and architecture is different from Greek art
What are verism, Corinthian columns, clothing, dome, arch, arcade, concrete, etc.
Rise of a specialized workforce that you had to join to have a middle class job in Medieval world
What are Guilds
Name 3 out of the 4 most influential cultures from Art History 1
What are Mesopotamia, Greek, Rome and China