Artworks
Answer: The Starry Night
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Movement: Post-Impressionism
This ancient Egyptian writing system used pictures and symbols to record religious texts, names, and events.
What are hieroglyphs?
This architectural style is recognizable by rounded arches, thick walls, and relatively small windows.
What is Romanesque?
This Renaissance artist painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This 19th-century movement focused on capturing changing light and the appearance of everyday modern life rather than creating highly finished academic paintings.
What is Impressionism?
Answer: Impression, Sunrise
Artist: Claude Monet
Movement: Impressionism
This Egyptian pharaoh is famously represented by a colossal seated statue and is associated with the Great Sphinx at Giza.
Who is Khafre?
This architectural style replaced rounded arches with pointed arches and emphasized enormous stained-glass windows.
What is Gothic?
This technique uses mathematical principles to create the illusion that parallel lines converge in the distance.
What is linear perspective?
This artist's The Starry Night uses swirling brushwork and intense color to communicate more than a literal view of the night sky.
Who is Vincent van Gogh?
Answer: Olympia
Artist: Édouard Manet
Movement: Realism/early Modernism
Unlike Egyptian artists, Greek artists increasingly emphasized this quality in the human figure, creating bodies that appeared more natural and physically believable.
What is naturalism?
This Byzantine church was transformed into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople and is famous for its enormous dome.
What is Hagia Sophia?
Renaissance artists revived interest in these earlier civilizations, studying its sculpture, architecture, mythology, and philosophy.
What is ancient Greece and Rome?
Picasso and Braque developed this movement by breaking objects into geometric shapes and showing multiple viewpoints at once.
What is Cubism?
Answer: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Movement: Proto-Cubism/Cubism
This Roman building demonstrates the empire's mastery of concrete and features a massive dome with an opening at its center. It was turned into a Christian Church. The artist Raphael is buried here.
What is the Pantheon?
Medieval artists frequently used gold backgrounds because they were not attempting to create a realistic earthly environment. Instead, the gold suggested this.
What is a timeless or heavenly space?
Michelangelo's David was originally commissioned for this prominent location in Florence before being moved to the Palazzo della Signoria.
What is the Florence Cathedral?
Kandinsky, Marc, and Kokoschka are associated with this movement, which emphasized emotional expression over realistic representation.
What is Expressionism?
Answer: The Large Blue Horses
Artist: Franz Marc
Movement: Expressionism
The Augustus of Primaporta uses idealized anatomy, military imagery, and references to mythology to present its subject not simply as a man but as this kind of political figure.
What is an idealized ruler/propagandistic emperor?
The development of Gothic architecture was not simply about making churches taller. The structural system allowed walls to become more open, creating an environment in which this became a major part of the religious experience.
What is light?
Raphael's School of Athens places Plato and Aristotle at the center of a gathering of philosophers. Plato's upward gesture and Aristotle's downward gesture visually represent this difference between their philosophies.
What is Plato's emphasis on ideal forms versus Aristotle's emphasis on the physical world?
Rather than creating traditional paintings or sculptures, this movement often used everyday objects, performance, chance, and absurdity to challenge what could be considered art.
What is Dada?