Aegean Art
Greek Art
Roman Art
Architecture
What Does It Mean?
100
This fresco shows a ritual game in which the participants eagerly vault over the bull’s back.
What is The Bull Dance?
100
Because human beings were central to the Greek culture and that they gave their gods human form we know this was the Greek ideal.
What is creating the perfect individual?
100
This civilization full of master architectural engineers and town builders, occupied much of central Italy before the Romans did.
Who were the Etruscans?
100
This is the flat triangular space under the cornice that is often filled with sculpture.
What is a pediment?
100
This is the Italian word that describes the position where the engaged leg is in the forward position.
What is Contrapposto?
200
Minoan and Myceneans were the Aegean civilizations that were the forerunners for which culture?
What is Greek culture?
200
During this art movement, when making statues, figures were stylized and did not represent real people.
What is the Archaic art movement?
200
The Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius was located in the piazza at the top of where?
What is Capitaline Hill?
200
This is part of the large and complex structure known as The Erectheum, and uses caryatids instead of columns to support it's architrave.
What is The Porch of the Maidens?
200
This is what is seen when there is a slightly curved tapering of a column.
What is entasis?
300
They had hilltop fortresses that were surrounded by walls of enormous stone blocks so large that the Greeks believed they were the work of the Cyclopes.
Who were the Myceneans?
300
It took architects, Iktinus and Kallikrates about 16 years to build this massive temple.
What is the Parthenon?
300
The Column of Trajan, once topped with a bronze statue of Trajan, now holds a statue of this man.
Who is St. Peter?
300
Columns that were easily identifiable by their volute (scroll-like design) on its capitals were made from this order.
What is the Ionic Order?
300
A place in the center of town where the people would come together to discuss things like the weather, art, battles, politics, and other gossip.
What is a forum?
400
This famous blind poet wrote about the Aegean civilizations of the Minoans and Myceneans long before archeologists even realized they were real places.
Who was Homer?
400
Greek artists were free to experiment as long as they worked toward which common goal?
What is beauty and harmony?
400
Many of these were made of the emperors so that their subjects would know what their ruler looked like.
What are Portrait sculptures?
400
Built in the 3rd century, this gigantic structure contained several pools of various temperatures, libraries, offices, meeting rooms, conversation areas and spaces for recreation.
What is The Baths of Caracalla?
400
Identify the middle part of the frieze shown here...
What is a metope?
500
Evidence shows that Minoans painted what spaces red, yellow and blue?
What are the plastered walls inside of their brightly colored buildings?
(will also accept: What are the plastered walls?)
500
Corinthian columns were used in this temple that was completed in the 2nd century under Roman emperor, Hadrian.
What is the Temple of Zeus in Athens?
(will also accept What is the Temple of Zeus?)
500
At least 2000 people chose to seek shelter within this town, and were overcome by the poisonous gases and hot ashes that clogged their lungs, which lead to their tragic deaths.
What is Pompeii?
500
This large structure had many rooms, running water, a sewage system, theater, storerooms, terraces and elaborately decorated quarters for the rulers.
What is The Palace of Minos?
500
At least 1,000 men were needed to raise or lower this useful part of the Colosseum.
What is a velarium?