Periods
This period was chacterized by idealized figures, serene faces, restrained motion, and the contrapposto stance.
What was Classical Greece?
This describes the renewed interest in the individual after the Medieval period--interest in human potential, human reason and the human body.
What was humanism?
He saw Beatrice as the embodiment of divine love and used her as such in his Divine Comedy.
Who was Dante?
The name of this building in modern-day Istanbul means "Holy Wisdom."
What is the Hagia Sophia?
This author of Utopia was executed by Henry VIII
Who was Sir Thomas More?
This period was characterized by elongated features, drapery that completely concealed the body, gold backgrounds, etc
What is the Byzantine?
From these towers, muezzins issue the call to prayer in Islam.
He wrote the Aeneid and was described in the guide in the Inferno
Who was Virgil?
This building houses the rock from which Muhammad was thought to have ascended to heaven
What is the Dome of the Rock?
He described his belief in ideal forms through the Allegory of the Cave.
Who was Plato?
What is the Renaissance?
This was the use of arguments and counterarguments to show the synthesis between classical reason and Christian theology.
What was scholasticism?
This Babylonian king was responsible for one of the first written codes of law
Who was Hammurabi?
This statue shows the emperor of Rome in the orator's stance, breastplate on, accompanied by Cupid and a dolphin.
What was Augustus of Prima Porta?
This word describes the practice of lending money with interest
This period, which came after the classical period in Greece, was characterized by more emotion and movement (as seen in sculptures like Laocoon)
What was the Hellenistic period?
These are sculptures that protrude from the background but are not entirely separate from it.
What are relief sculptures?
This Italian banking family was one of the most influential of the Renaissance--commissioning major works of art, ruling cities and countries, and even becoming Popes.
Who were the Medicis?
This Hellenistic sculpture depicts the death of a defeated warrior, with the emotion and realism characteristic of the period.
What is the Dying Gaul?
She was one of the first lyric poets and one of the few female voices we have from antiquity
Who was Sappho?
This period of architecture was characterized by pointed arches, stained glass, flying buttresses and high ceilings.
What was Gothic?
This is the use of symbolism used in a piece of art (often drawn from stories or text).
What is iconography?
He was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the pope in 800 CE
Who was Charlemagne?
This sculpture by Michelangelo depicts Mary holding the dead Christ on her lap.
What is the Pieta?
This was the first introspective autobiography in western literature.
What was Confessions by St. Augustine