Barrons Diagnostic Test
Barrons Quizzes
Dates of Stylic Period
Name that Style
Grab Bag
100
This piece of architecture used groin and barrel vaults and it had a retractable canvas roof but it was not used for chariot races
What is the Colosseum
100
This is what pages from medieval books are made from.
What is callum/vellum/animal hide
100
Mannerism
What is 1520s
100
Pink, Whimsical, France
What is Rococo
100
This piece of architecture is a Doric temple with Ionic elements
What is the Parthenon
200
This region is where Cylinder seals are most commonly found
What is the Near East
200
This is the attribute of Saint Matthew usually seen in manuscripts.
What is an angel/ winged man
200
Classical Period Greece
What is ca480-323 BCE
200
Androgynous males, elongated necks, thin arms and long fingers
What is Amarna Period Egypt
200
This artist painted many self-portraits
Who is Rembrandt van Rijn
300
This ancient civilization was uncovered by Sir Arthur Evans in the early twentieth century.
What is Crete
300
This is the part of a building that is defined by the space between two arches
What is a spandrel
300

Amarna Period Egypt

What is ca. 1350 BCE

300
First revival of classical art beyond the ancient world
What is Carolingian
300
The gradual transition from light to dark in a painting
What is chiaroscuro
400
This is a transitional element between a dome and a wall
What is a squinch
400
The Egyptian canon of proportions believed that while most of the body should be portrayed in profile, frontal views were permitted of the shoulders and this part of the body
What is the eye
400
Art of the Warrior Lords
What is ca 600/7th century
400
The sculpture of this time period stresses movement; figures are caught in mid-motion, mouths open, with the flesh of one figure yielding to the touch of another
What is Baroque (Italian Baroque ie. Bernini is also acceptable)
400
He commissioned Michaelangelo to make a sculpture of Moses.
Who is Pope Julius II
500
This statue by Praxiteles from the fourth century BCE represents the ideals of late classical sculpture.
What is Hermes and Dionysos
500
This separated the apse from the transept and the nave of a church.
What is an iconostasis.
500
Iconoclasm
What is ca. 800 CE
500
This period is heavily influenced by a spirit of individuality, the sublime in nature and the unconscious world of dreams and fantasies.
What is Romanticism.
500
Art Historians have disputed between these two artists about who is the true painter of Pastoral Symphony
Who are Giorgione and Titian