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Art Basics
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Middle East
Prehistoric Art
Art of the Aegean
100
the primary colors
What are red, yellow and blue
100
Khufu had one built for himself
What are the Great Pyramids of Giza?
100
The Fertile Crescent was here
What is Mesopotamia - (present day Iraq)?
100
She is synonymous with fertility
What is the Woman From Willendorf?
100
Paint applied to wet plaster.
What is a fresco?
200
Painting, sculpture and photography are examples of these.
What are mediums
200
The first kind of pyramid
What is a stepped pyramid?
200
Made of glazed blue bricks, it is now in the Berlin Museum
What is the Ishtar Gate?
200
They were closed because too many people came to see it, causing damage.
What are the Lascaux caves?
200
The Minoans lived here
What is the island of Crete?
300
The conventional meanings of objects or details
What is iconography?
300
Akhenaten's time is called this.
What is the Amarna Period?
300
SANBAN
What are Sumerian, Akkadian, Neo-Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian?
300
An example of megalithic structure in England.
What is Stonehenge?
300
The Atreus Treasury was built using this method.
What is a corbeled vault?
400
The arrangement of colors, shapes and lines
What is composition?
400
The god most closely associated with Death
Who is Osiris?
400
the Heavenly and the Worldly
What is sacer and profanus?
400
The three major sites of cave painting in Europe.
What are Lascaux, Altamira and Chauve'
400
It was also known as the Labyrinth.
What is the Knossos Palace?
500
Dating objects by examining the rings of objects made of wood
What is dendrochronology?
500
stepped pyramids evolved from these
What is a mastaba?
500
The bottom register on the Great Lyre shows ne of these.
What is a scorpion man?
500
The earliest art objects, from c.75000 BCE were found here.
What is South Africa?
500
The main hall of a Mycenaean palace, they became the model for later Greek temples.
What is a megaron?