Important People
Historical Context
Visual Arts Vocabulary
Performing Arts Vocabulary
Works of Art
100

This legendary heroic outlaw was originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature and film.

Who is Robin Hood?

100

The belief or worship of more than one god, common throughout most nations around 2000 BC - 400 AD.

What is polytheism?
100

This is a 2D area with a definitive border.

What is shape?

100

This style of music is to be performed without the usage of instruments, only voices.

What is a cappella?

100

This Egyptian sculpture, made of limestone and plaster, creates a perfect triangle with the subject's face and headdress.

What is the Bust of Nefertiti?

200

This Holy Roman Emperor, who was heavily inspired by Constantine and Charlemagne, was crowned in 926 and his reign marked the start of the Ottonian Period.

Who is Otto I?

200

This war between England and France started in 1337 and ended in 1453.

What is the Hundred Years War?

200

This is a principle of design that compares size or numbers between elements or figures.

What is proportion?

200

This term refers to the combination of instruments used in a piece of music.

What is instrumentation?

200

This Gothic cathedral, located in France, contains what is believed to be the tunic that the Virgin Mary wore.

What is the Chartres Cathedral?

300

This person was a female troubadour and composer of "A Chantar Me'er".

Who is Beatriz de Dia?

300

In this time period, from 1150 to 1500 AD, the goal of architects was to elevate churches goers to the most spiritual and heavenly realm possible.

What is Gothic?

300

This classical Greek order is most recognizable by the spiral shaped volute on the capital.

What is Ionic?

300

These professional poet-musicians from Germany wrote music during the High Middle Ages.

What are minnesingers?

300

This statue, made in the prehistoric times, looks like and animal with human features.

What is the Lion Man?
400

This troubadour wrote a chanson about being betrayed by his lover.

Who is Bernart de Ventadorn?

400

This elevated place in the center of a Greek city was occupied by temples.

What is an acropolis?

400

These are horizontal sections that can create several levels in an artwork.

What are registers?

400

This term refers to the relationship between different parts (i.e. instruments and voices) in a piece of music.

What is texture?

400

This vase, created during the Neolithic Period, is decorated with geometric shapes.

What is the Bushel with Ibex Motifs?

500

This female Mexican artist who sports a unibrow painted many self-portraits with her beloved pets.

Who is Kahlo?

500

This Aegean society focused on conquest but also participated in trade.

What is Mycenae?

500

This Ancient Roman technique involved making two-dimensional paintings appear to be three-dimensional by angling objects a certain way or making them appear smaller in the distance.

What is tromp l'oeil?

500

This is the method of sound production that shows how a note is played or heard, such as smooth and flowing or choppy and emphasized.

What is articulation?

500

This geometric and colorful painting by Pablo Picasso depicts a sad experience.

What is The Weeping Woman?

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