Art Techniques and Materials
The Great Sphinx of Giza was carved from this type of stone.
What is Limestone?
This place was used for gladiatorial games.
What is the Colosseum?
This pharaoh, famous for the Great Pyramid of Giza, ruled during Egypt's old Kingdom.
Who is Khufu?
A Babylonian legal text that was written by the sixth king of the First Dynasty of Babylon.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
A Dramatic figure that depicts a headless wing sculpture.
What is the Winged Victory of Samothrace?
What the Seated Boxer is made out of.
What is Bronze?
A tomb that has a array of intricate frescos depicting scenes of a banquet.
What is the Tomb of the Triclinium?
A female pharaoh who ruled for 20 years.
Who is Hatshepsut?
During the Archaic period, this type of statue depicted the ideal male youth.
What is Kouros figures?
This art era in Greece is defined by dramatic and emphasized movement.
What is the hellenistic period?
A mural technique that involves applying water-based pigments to freshly applied plaster, creating a permanent part of the wall.
What is a fresco?
A marble temple to Athena on top of the Acropolis.
What is the Parthenon?
Siblings from mythology who killed the children of Niobe due to her pride.
Who is Artemis and Apollo?
These non naturalistic figures have large, bugged out eyes.
What are Votive figures?
This period created a shift in Egyptian style due to change in state religion. Amun to Aten the sun god.
What is the Amarna period?
This style of pottery features red figures against a black background, popular in classical Greece.
What is red-figure pottery?
A place similar to a shopping mall made of high groin vaults and flying buttresses.
What is the Markets of Trajan?
Known for bringing peace to the Greco- Roman world.
Who is Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus?
A large layered tomb depicting the Battle of the Romans and the Barbarians.
The Romans are shown as brave and heroic and the Barbarians are portrayed as scary-looking caricatures.
What is the Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus?
During this period relief craving of 2 winged bulls with heads of men were carved.
What is the Neo- Assyrian Period?
Sumerian Architecture that is elevated on a platform "to be closer to heaven"
What is the White Temple and its ziggurat ?
An Acropolis that first started as a market and than to a governmental building.
What is the Athenian Agora?
A unfinished sculpture of a a King and Queen entering the afterlife.
Who is King Menkaure and Queen?
A long lost greek painting preserved by Mount Vesuvius (a volcano that erupted in 79 CE) depicting one of the world's greatest military generals.
What is The Alexander Mosaic, Pompeii (100 B.C.E)
A sculpture standing on the right foot, left leg relaxed. Bearing more weight on one leg (unequal)
What is Contrapposto?