Paleolithic Art...
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The Bronze Age
Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
Early Christian &Jewish
Byzantine & Islamic Art
100
The Hall of the Bulls resides in this cave system
What is Lascaux?
100
The term Mesopotamia translates as
What is the land between two rivers?
100
A mixture of water and clay used by Greek pottery painters to create black figures and details on vases
What is slip?
100
Two barrel vaults that intersect at a right angle
What is a groin vault?
100
With this sign Constantine did conquor, at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge
What is the Chi Rho?
100
The period of the destruction of images in the Byzantine Empire that began in the 8th century
What is iconoclasm?
200
The Woman from Willendorf was carved around a natural formation in the rock that became this feature
What is her navel/belly button?
200
A high man-made trapezoidal platform upon which temples were placed in the Bronze-Age Near East
What is a ziggurat?
200
The Orientalizing style of vase painting is associated with this Greek city state
What is Corinth?
200
The Pont du Gard at Nîmes is an example of one of these
What is an aqueduct?
200
A stone, tile, or piece of glass that makes up a mosaic
What is a tessera?
200
A many-columned hall
What is a hypostyle hall?
300
When a figure is shown in profile, except for a particularly descriptive part that is shown in 3/4 profile
What is composite pose or twisted perspective?
300
The Cycladic female figurines excavated in the Aegean are made in this medium
What is marble?
300
A female figure, maiden, often used as a grave marker in the Archaic Greek period
What is a kore?
300
The illusion created on a flat surface by which figure and objects appear to recede or project sharply into space
What is foreshortening?
300
The Old Testament prefiguration of events in the New Testament.
What is typology?
300
Masjid translate as ________ and provides the root of the word mosque
What is a place of prostration?
400
When an image is pared down to its geometric component parts
What is abstraction?
400
Imhotep may be the first acknowledged architect in western history who built this
What is the Stepped Pyramid of King Djoser?
400
The sculptural process used by the ancient Greeks to create bronze sculpture
What is the lost wax process?
400
The Roman innovation made possible by pozzolan sand/ash
What is concrete (that sets under water)?
400
The Synagogue of Beth Alpha was built with this building plan
What is a basilican plan?
400
Anthemius of Tralles and Isodorus of Miletus used this support system under the dome of Hagia Sophia
What are pendentives?
500
The sun in this picture is coming from this direction
What is east?
500
The object seen here as well as the small objects it contained (2 part answer)
What is bulla & tokens?
500
The vase shape associated with the burials of men
What is a krater?
500
The great engineer and architect who built for Trajan and was then executed by Hadrian
Who is Apollodorus of Damascus?
500
The building plan most often associate with mausolea in the ancient world
What is the central plan?
500
The centrally-planned building on the The Haram al-Sharif associated with Muhammad's Night Journey
What is the Dome of the Rock?
600
These wallowing bison are in a cave in this country
What is Spain?
600
The pharaoh Amenhoteo IV changed his name to
What is Akhenaten?
600
The master sculptor of the Parthenon complex
Who is Phidias?
600
Latin for the Altar of Peace
What is the Ara Pacis?
600
When artists assimilate images from other traditions (even religions) and give them new meanings either intentionally or unintentionally
What is syncretism?
600
The imperial-looking Christ as the Ruler of All as seen in the domes of Middle Byzantine churches
What is the Pantocrator?
700
The little extension on the top of the post shown here is called a
What is a tenon in a mortise and tenon joint?
700
A Persian audience hall such as that seen in Persepolis
What is an apadana?
700
The slight convex curve in the shaft of a column, introduced to correct the visual illusion of concavity produced by a straight shaft
What is entasis?
700
The Roman style of wall painting that replicates expensive inlaid stone
What is the First or Masonry Style?
700
The great church in Constantinople built by this guy
What is Hagia Sophia?
700
The empty niche in the qibla wall of a mosque
What is a mihrab?
800
The archaeologist whose work changed the way we understand Stonehenge, as seen on the Nova Secrets of Stonehenge documentary
Who is Mike Parker Pearson?
800
Archaeologists believe that this king may have unified upper and lower Egypt for the first time
Who is Narmer?
800
Columns shaped like female figures that support architecture
What are caryatids?
800
Large apartment complexes common in Rome's Subura
What is an insula?
800
The semicircular space at the end of the nave of a basilica
What is an apse?
800
The chapter heading in a Qur'an
What is a surah?