Grrrr…eat Animals in ArtPrehistory
Caution:
Wet Paint!
Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day
Artistic Genius
Location, location, location
100
culture created many bas relief sculptures of lion hunts
What is Assyrian?
100
This is the definition of fresco
What is painting on wet plaster?
100
These ancient Mesopotamian structures were built out of mudbricks and had temples on top.
What are Ziggurats
100
Polyklietos sculpted during this period of Greek art.
What is Classical?
100
The part of Egypt around the Nile delta in Northern Egypt is called (upper or lower?)
What is Lower Egypt
200
In Early Christian art, Christ was often depicted as a man in charge of this type of animal.
What is Sheep?
200
This culture is credited with creating the first frescoes.
Who are the Minoans
200
Constantine’s contained sculpture from great Emperors of the Pax Romana
What is a Triumphal Arch?
200
He was the architect of King Zoser/Djoser’s burial complex.
Who was Imhotep?
200
This is the country where Altamira cave is located.
What is Spain?
300
A hyena was depicted in cave paintings only once that we know of, and it was in this cave.
What is Chavet?
300
The peaches fresco from Pompeii is the earliest known example of this.
What is a still life?
300
The Lion’s Gate contains this kind of arch around its relieving triangle.
What is corbelled?
300
Sculpted Hermes with the Infant Dionysus, and is famous for his use of “S-Curve.”
Who was Praxiteles?
300
After the Peloponnesian Wars, this city became the cultural center of the Greek world.
What is Pergamon?
400
The mythical dragon of the Ishtar Gate
What is Mushushu?
400
This style of Roman Wall Painting utilizes thin, wispy, unrealistic architecture.
What is the 3rd style?
400
The porch of caryatids is found on this building on the Athenian Acropolis.
What is Erechtheion?
400
He made a name for himself painting black figure vases in Archaic Greece.
Who was Exekias?
400
Mesopotamia is located between these two rivers
What are the Tigris & Euphrates?
500
The sperpapods on the Palette of Narmer symbolize this.
What is the unification of upper and lower Egypt?
500
The fresco in the Villa of the Mysteries most likely depicts an initiation into the rites of this god.
Who was Dionysus?
500
Of the three pyramids at Giza, he had the smallest.
What is Menkaure?
500
These two architects designed the Parthenon
Who were Iktinos & Kalikrates
500
Hammurabi was a leader here.
What is Babylon?
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