Architecture
This is the Islamic place of worship.
What is a mosque?
Art can be considered this when it is used to purposely mislead its audience, particularly when it has political subject matter.
What is propaganda?
8,000 of these were found in a Qin Dynasty tomb proving that the emperor believed he needed the protection in the after life.
What are soldiers?
In our intro to ethics, this is the object in the example I used that could have run over 1 or 5 people; it was your choice.
What is a trolley?
This is the term that Adolf Hitler used to refer to modern art, which he thought was inferior, sickly, and corrupt.
What is Degenerate?
Stonehenge is an excellent example of this architectural style; it's the simplest way to span a doorway and raise a roof.
What is post-and-lintel construction?
Apparently the new state of South Carolina was not too happy with their commissioned portrait of this American leader, because he appeared too lofty, and they preferred him to look more peaceful, tranquil, and matter-of-fact.
Who is George Washington?
This is an important symbol of Catholic worship, traditionally represented by bread and wine.
What is the Eucharist?
This is the object that Mexico has continually asked a museum in Vienna, Austria to be repatriated; to which the answer is always "no."
What is a feathered headdress?
This is a work of architecture from the ancient Near East; a huge mud brick, platform-like structure, that was a hub of Near Eastern life.
What is a Ziggurat?
The [blank] plan church is the most traditional of layouts for a Christian church, and contains a nave, aisles, transept, and apse.
What is a Basilica plan?
Meaning to "break images" this term refers to the destruction or prohibition of images, usually in religious art.
What is Iconoclasm?
This is an image in Buddhist worship that is a symbolic representation of the universe; in Tibet they are sometimes made form sand and destroyed as soon as they are completed.
What is a Mandala?
Damien Hirst often used dead animals in his work, but he received even more criticism when he used these in his work, "In and out of Love."
What are Butterflies?
This was painted on to Michelangelo's Last Judgement altarpiece in order to censor the "inappropriate" aspects of the fresco.
What are "modesty cloths"/clothes/fabric?
This is a feature of Gothic cathedrals; it is an exterior arch that supports weak points in the interior pointed arches.
What is the Flying Buttress?
This artist challenged racial and gender identity when he appropriated an image of a woman bitten by a snake, and replaced her with a modern, black man.
Who is Kehinde Wiley?
This term refers to traditional religious public practice.
What is Liturgy?
This term refers to the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them.
What is Appropriation?
The Parthenon features rows of columns that have a simple capital and no base, so they belong to this order.
What is Doric?
This word refers to a wall in an Islamic house of worship that faces the direction of Mecca.
What is the Qibla wall?
John Trumbull painted a heroic commemorative portrait of General Warren at this battle in the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Bunker's Hill?
In an Islamic place of worship, this is the term for the altar or pulpit where the Imam delivers special prayers.
What is the Minbar?
She is the postmodern photographer who questioned originality when she photographed the photographs of Walker Evans.
Who is Sherrie Levine?
The funerary practices of these early Italian peoples show that they believed the after life was much like this life; even their elaborate terra cotta sarcophagi show that if you're married in this life, you're married in the next as well.
Who are the Etruscans?