Prehistoric art
A period called the "Old Stone Age".
What is Paleolithic ?
The area surrounding the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers was a fertile river valley called:
What is Mesopotamia?
In Roman sculpture, some humans are depicted realistically or unflatteringly realistic, as you can see in ....
What is the Head of a Roman Patrician?
Human shaped is anthropomorphic, while animal shaped is called.
What is Zoomorphic?
A female became a saint when she was stoned to death for converting to Christianity. A church was created in her honor and it is a great example of an early Roman basilica.
The materials which the Apollo 11 stones were made with.
What is charcoal on stone?
Egyptian Pyramids are built as a part of a greater complex called a ...... (an area used for burials)
What is necropolis?
Eturian sculptures were once brightly painted but it has worn away with time and only the ....... material bases remain. (Like the sarcophagus of the spouses)
What is terracotta?
In islamic architecture we can find ornamental handwriting that is used as a decoration on walls. This is called:
What is calligraphy?
A cylindrical box used for cosmetics, now in the Louvre, is among the best surviving examples of the royal ivory carving tradition in Al-Andalus (Islamic Spain).
What is the Pyxis of al-Mughira?
When humans started settling, men and women started developing different works. That is called:
What is stratification of labor?
A paper-like writing surface made from the ..... plant.
What is papyrus?
An Egyptian sarcophagus that had three coffins for the kings’ body. The outer two coffins were crafted in wood and covered in gold along with semiprecious stones like lapis lazuli and turquoise. The inner coffin was made of solid gold.
What is Tutankhamun’s tomb ?
This type of architecture style in Europe uses diagonal vaults that cross onto one another and create a rib-like appearance) to support the buildings' roofs.
What is Romanesque architecture?
This Byzantine church was completed in 537, then became a Latin Church during the 4th Crusade, then was reclaimed by the Eastern Orthodox Church, then became a Mosque and then finally in 1934 became a museum.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
This pictograph on a cave wall shows the main figure running and the humans in the background in movement , art historians believe that this work was made to symbolize survival.
What is Running Horned Woman ?
In Egypt, the canon of proportion showed people's shoulders are frontal, the rest of the body is in profile (shown from one side), men are depicted tallest while women and children are shorter. During the ................(1346-1336 BCE), artists began to break the canon of proportions and depicted humans with protruding stomachs, softer limbs, and more realistic-looking bodies
What is the Amarna Period?
This object was found in one of the largest graves in the Royal Cemetery. Made with colorful mosaic tiles made from shell (from Persian gulf), red limestone (from India), blue lapis lazuli (from Afghanistan). The main panels are known as “War” and “Peace.”
What is Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur?
These are manuscripts that tell a story using both words and images.
What are illuminated manuscripts?
This woodcut print piece was made by a German artist who elevated printmaking to the level of an independent art form. This print shows two nude figures in contrapposto from a bible scene, and it belongs to the Italian Renaissance.
What is Adam and Eve by Durer?
It was a vase that was buried in the graves of deceased people, suggesting that it was a funerary item. It was a ceramic painted with animal figures.
What is Bushel with Ibex Motifs ?
In Rome, new advancements in architecture like the .........was used to collect rainwater.
What is the impluvium?
An open civil and social heart space in a Roman city, this forum included a temple. Forums built by Roman emperors during the Roman imperial period mainly to showcase power.
What is Forum of Trajan?
In the Northern Renaissance painting, works picturing domestic scenes and other everyday activities become popular as well.
What are Genre paintings?
This painting from the Northern Renaissance, shows two roles that God plays: A judge (condemns human sin) and a shower of mercy (forgiveness).
What is the Allegory of Law and Grace, by Lucas Cranach the Elder?