ARCHITECTURE
ARTISTS
TECHNIQUES
CONTEXT
NOTHING BUT CHURCHES!!!
100
The Temple of Amun-Re is emblematic of this structural type that allows light to enter while supporting the roof using columns.
What is a hypostyle hall?
100
This artist revolutionized painting through his application of glazing.
Who is Jan Van Eyck?
100
Greek vessels like the Niobides Krater use this process to create an image, where the red clay of the pot is left unpainted while black fills the background image.
What is Red Figure Technique?
100
This artist's most famous work, known as a symbolic expression for anxiety and alienation, was likely inspired by a traveling mummy exhibition.
What is "The Scream" by Edvard Munch?
100
This church is built on the site of a Christian martyred by the Romans, repurposed an already existing Roman building, and is the oldest still-in-use Basilica in Rome.
What is the Basilica of Santa Sabina?
200
This Indian Buddhist structure housed relics and was a pilgrimage site for circumambulation.
What is the Great Stupa at Sanchi?
200
This contemporary artist's work emphasizes architectural features and details of stadiums, like flags, columns, seats, and windows, are overlaid with building plans, charts, geographical maps, and multiple points of view.
Who is Julie Mehretu?
200
Artists of the Baroque period used this technique to create a sense of drama where forms emerge from the darkest shadows.
What is tenebrism?
200
The work by this artist was the first nude since the Classical period (work and artist)
What is Donatello's "David"?
200
This church is unusual in that it has a central (or radial) plan as opposed to a more typical axial plan.
What is San Vitale (Byzantine)?
300
What style is represented in the following structures?
What is Romanesque?
300
This artist used tilted perspective, flattened space, and isolated figures to capture the effects of racism and discrimination.
Who is Jacob Lawerence?
300
Sandro Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" used this specific type of painting medium.
What is egg-tempera?
300
Goya created this work as part of a series that was for no patron, and no profit (it was a purely for personal expression).
What is "Y no hai remedio (And there's Nothing to be Done) from Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War), plate 15" ?
300
Also known as the “Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption," this structure used the columns from Roman Christian churches (spolia).
What is The Great Mosque (Cordoba, Spain. Umayyad Dynasty)?
400
Situated along the confluence of two rivers, this ancient city was shaped in the form of a puma.
What is the City of Cusco?
400
This artist merged surrealism and cubism with his native country's Afro-Caribbean culture.
Who is Wilfredo Lam?
400
The Nkisi n'kondi (Power Figure) of the Kongos People draws its power from this.
What is hammering/driving nails into the wooden figure?
400
This artist studied with Rodin, later describing his departure from Rodin's teachings as “nothing can grow under big trees…”
Who is Constantin Brancusi?
400
The Chartres Cathedral's elongated spires, pointed arches, and flying buttresses are all features of what style?
What is Gothic Architecture?
500
This architectural movement commonly used cantilevered designs while striving to work in harmony with the site by using the organic quality of materials.
What is Modern Architecture? (what is the specific sub-genre seen in our image?)
500
"Black on Black" is an example by this artist (artists?), where she/they combined elements of Art Deco with the geometric designs of their Indigenous pasts.
Who is Maria (and Julian) Martinez?
500
"Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters," uses this type of carving technique.
What is sunken relief?
500
Moving away from religious, mythological, and neoplatonic motifs, this painting opened the era and tradition of the reclining female nude.
What is The Venus of Urbino (Titian)?
500
This mosque is unique in both the materials used in its construction, and that the minarets are built into the structure instead of being free-standing.
What is The Great Mosque of Djenné (Mali, Africa)?