Fight Club
These barbarians were finally defeated by the Greeks in the 5th century BCE.
Who are the Persians?
This Neolithic megalith in England is composed of circles of trilithons which may have functioned as a burial ground or solar calendar.
What is Stonehenge?
This little god clings to the hem of Augustus' statue from Primaporta.
Who is Cupid?
Erected to celebrate the defeat of Maxentius, this Roman arch was also the victory of Christianity and the empire's move to Constantinople.
What is the Arch of Constantine?
A shift in weight.
What is contrapposto?
In Exekias' black-figure amphora Achilles and Ajax are taking a break from this war to play a game of dice.
What is the Trojan War?
Male harp players, composed of geometric shapes, were found in the graves of this prehistoric Aegean island.
What is Cyclades or Cycladic art?
Eager to present himself as a simple ruler, this Mesopotamian from Lagash was typically shown with hands clasped and wearing a plain hat.
Who is Gudea?
This arch is typically used in Islamic architecture.
What is a horseshoe arch?
When important figures are depicted larger than others.
What is hieratic or hierarchical scale?
This part of the Roman amphitheater, where gladiatorial combats took place, was covered in sand to soak up blood from the fights.
What is the arena?
This life-size male figure in ancient Greece was typically used as a grave marker.
What is a kouros?
Who is Mary?
This is the arch-shaped space above the portal of a gothic church, often filled with sculptures.
What is a tympanum?
Shelves in catacombs where bodies are received and held.
What are loculi?
This 50 year period in Roman history involved the murder of one general after another.
Cloisonne purse covers and fibulae, amongst other valuable portable objects, believed to have been piled onto the dead king who was pushed into sea, was found in this Anglo-Saxon burial cache.
What is Sutton Hoo?
She was honored in a mosaic in Ravenna and was married to the emperor who commissioned the Hagia Sophia.
Who is Theodora?
A three-dimensional and hemispherical version of an arch.
What is a dome?
What is a Yakshi?
The Naram-sin stele from Akkad shows Naram-sin defeating this group of people from the Iranian mountains.
Who are the Lullabi people?
Epigonos was commissioned to sculpt a Gallic chieftain killing himself and his wife done in this style of sculpture.
What is the Pergamene Baroque style?
This enlightened figure opts to remain on earth in order to help other Buddhists attain nirvana.
What is a bodhisattva?
These are the three major styles of vaults used in arches.
What are barrel (1/2), groin (intersecting), ribbed (crossed)?
Triangular sections of a sphere used to transfer weight from the dome to piers beneath.
What are pendentives?