AP Art History Jeopardy!

Pre-history

100

Stonehenge used this method of construction in which two posts support a horizontal beam.

What is post-and-lintel?

200

This material is extremely hard to carve, and is seen as a symbol of wealth

What is jade?

300

This is the name of an upright stone slab used as a grave marker

What is a stele?

400

Under this individual's reign, a short-lived artistic revolution in which undulating curves and anecdotal content replaced the cubic forms and impassive stillness of earlier Egyptian art.

Who is Akhenaton?

500

This work of narrative art commemorates the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt into a single under the rule of a divine pharaoh ca. 3000 BCE.

What is the Palette of King Narmer?

Ancient Greece/Etruscan (pre-Rome)

100

In the High Classical period (ca. 450-400 BCE), this canon served as the template for the perfect statue.

What is Polykleitos' canon of proportions?

200

Instead of marble pediment statuary, the Etruscans used this form of statuary to decorate the roof.

What is terracotta statuary?

300

Utilizing registers to tell a story, this mosaic shows the development of trade, as well as telling a historical narrative

What is the Standard of Ur?

400

During this artistic period, sculptors explored new subjects- Gauls with strange mustaches and necklaces, impoverished old women- and treated traditional subjects in new ways- athletes with battered bodies and faces, and openly erotic goddesses.

What is the Hellenistic Period (Ancient Greece)?

500

This is best described as the base of a Sumerian temple

What is a ziggurat?

Ancient Rome

100

The Colosseum utilizes these to distinguish between levels on the outside of the structure.

What are columns? 

200

This term means superrealistic and was used for portraits of old men from distinguished families during the Republic.

What is veristic?

300

This artwork was created to present Augustus's new order as a Golden Age equaling that of Athens under Pericles.

What is Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace)?

400

Diocletian (r. 284-305 CE) reestablished Roman order by creating a new power. He created statues in honor of this power to portray identical and equal rulers.

What is the four tetrarchs?

500

This style wall painting is recognized for its delicate linear fantasies sketched on monochromatic backgrounds.

What is the Third Style?

Early Medieval

100

This term is used to describe handwritten books that were embellished with gold and silver leaf.

What is an illuminated manuscript?

200

This patron and ruler built Hagia Sophia, San Vitale, and rebuilt the monastery at Mount Sinai in Egypt.

Who is Justinian?

300

These are the three purposes the Hagia Sophia has served as over time.

What is a church, a mosque and a museum?

400

This is a style of art that involved melting wax mixed with pigment to create a painting

What is Encaustic?

500

The Bayeux Tapestry depicts this battle. 

What is the Battle of Hastings?

Gothic or Romanesque

100

This type of architecture utilizes flying buttresses.

What is Gothic?

200

This architecture style utilized rounded arches and rounded groin vaults.

What is Romanesque?

300

Radiating chapels were found in what type of Medieval Church?

Both!

400

The Chartes Cathedral reflects this period of architecture.

What is Gothic?

500

These are the two places a Rose Window would be located.

What is above the apse, and on the western facade?