Global Prehistory
The anthropomorphic stele found near Ha’il, Saudi Arabia, is believed to have functioned as a
What is a Grave Marker
This sculpture within the Cornaro Chapel exemplifies Italian Baroque art with its dramatic sculptural interpretation
What is The Ecstasy of St. Theresa
The laws expressed on the Code of Hammurabi can be summarized as ________ fits the ___________
What is Punishment fits the Crime
This Realism painting by Courbet depicts ordinary working people and harsh labor realistically instead of as idealized or heroic subjects
What is The Stone Breakers
Contemporary artist Jeff Koons used inspiration from popular objects of low quality known as
What is Kitsch
This is the most obvious example in which Angel with an Arquebus differs from other angels we have seen in artwork
What is this angel is carrying a gun rather than a sword
These portable works of art found in Namibia suggest that they are the earliest known rock paintings in Africa
What is the Apollo 11 stones
The Calling of St. Matthew by this Baroque artist uses tenebrism to create an intense scene
Who is Caravaggio
The horizontal band containing triglyphs and relief sculpture that rests on columns in Greek architecture is known as this
What is a frieze
The figurative style of La Grande Odalisque by Ingres from 1814 was inspired by
What is Italian Mannerism
Song Su-nam's Summer Trees references the
Asian tradition of painting with this media
What is Ink
This manuscript was created to show Europeans the everyday history of the Aztecs
What is the Codex Mendoza
Once thought to show hunting scenes, scholars now believe this ancient art documented animal-based rituals
What are the Lascaux Cave Great Hall of the Bulls paintings
Who is Rembrandt
The foreshortening of figures and the use of 1 million small tiles in this Artwork conveyed the climactic moment of a great victory
What is the Alexander Mosaic
Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix captures this moment in time and was later turned into the musical Les Mis
What is the Parisian uprising of 1830 (caused by disillusionment with King Louis-Philippe, triggered specifically by the death of the popular anti-monarchist General Jean Maximilien Lamarque)
Frank Gehry selected titanium instead of more traditional materials like brick or cement when designing the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to create this effect on the surface
What is reflection from the sunlight
The painting Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo were considered this genre of painting
What are Casta Paintings
The physical features of this handheld tool suggest that it was important and valuable because it would have taken a long time and great skill to carve.
What is the Ambum Stone
The dramatic illusionism, emotional intensity, and grand decoration of the architecture and ceiling fresco in Il Gesu reflect the goals of what Catholic movement
What is the Counter-Reformation
In terms of function, the Book of the Dead is most similar to these 3 Dimensional works from the same time period
What are the Great Pyramids and Great Sphinx or Tutankhamun's tomb, innermost coffin (both were connected to the afterlife and helping the dead transition into the next world)
Photography was practiced by marginalized communities, women and minorities, at its earliest stage of development because there were none of these to ban the work
What is an Art Academie or Salon
Although Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth and Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration of the Negro, Panel no. 49 use very different media, they are similar in that both include this to represent racism
A divisional line
The Virgin of Guadalupe by Miguel González shows the influence of Asian art in its use of exotic materials such as this
What is mother-of-pearl
Scholars believe this sculpture with interlocking square and cylindrical forms was intended to help connect the physical and spiritual worlds
What is the Jade Cong
The façade of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane is considered Baroque because it uses these features to create movement and energy.
What are curving forms or curved lines?
The Standard of Ur, an ancient Sumerian work, shows that at an early date there was extensive trading between peoples as illustrated by the use of this semi-precious stone
What is lapis lazuli from Afghanistan
Manifest Destiny was a 19th-century American belief that the US was divinely destined to expand its territory across North America. What Romanticist painting and artist argued against it
What is the Oxbow by Thomas Cole
This visual element in Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s Trade (Canoe with souvenirs) contribute to the emotional expressiveness of the painting by alluding to massacre
What is visible drips of red pigment
The Portrait of Sor Juana reflects the importance of this in colonial Latin America by surrounding the figure with books and scholarly objects
What is education