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
This type of capital was most frequently used during the Hellenistic Period of Greek art and later in the Roman civilization
What is the Corinthian capital?
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
Long, longl long after its creation, this structure was damaged by citizens and architects who used it as an instant quarry for marble when constructing other buildings in the city.
What is The Colosseum?
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
This statue, named after its sculptor, stands apart from others of its time thanks to its contrapposto pose.
What is the Kritios Boy?
200
The Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius was located in the piazza at the top of where?
What is Capitaline Hill?
200
This Archaic Doric temple at Paestum was built about 550 BC and now stands in ruins BUT it was once a powerful structure with very heavy columns that budged and tapered toward the top.
What is The Bassilia?
(will also accept: What is the Tempe of Hera?)
200
This is what is seen when there is a slightly curved tapering of a column.
What is entasis?
300
The plan of this place is so complex that it survived in Greek legend as the Labyrinth of the Minotaur.
What is the Palace at Knossos?
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
The Three Goddesses sculpture from the east pediment of the Parthenon lead the viewer's eye over the bodies and to this central event of the pediment's composition.
What is the birth of Athena?
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
This type of statue typically shows a horse.
What is an equestrian statue?
