A Leap of Faith
What the Function?
It's Your Funeral
Go For Baroque
It's All Greek To Me
100
Visitors to Mecca perform this ritual as they walk around the Kaaba.
What is circumambulation?
100
This Mesopotamian stele wasn't just art—it laid down the law.
What is the Law Code Stele of Hammurabi?
100
Unlike the pyramids, this female king's temple was not intended to be a tomb.
Who is Hatshepsut?
100
Painters used these dramatic techniques to add contrast to their work.
What is Tenebrism / Chiarascuro?
100
Greek columns started simple and got more elaborate over time with these three orders.
What are Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian?
200
Gothic cathedrals stand apart from their Romanesque little sisters with this architectural innovation.
What are flying buttresses?
200
When this was used in a ceremony, the audience would most likely have felt that the wearer was filled with energy from ancestors or spirit forces.
What is a Kwakwaka’wakw transformation mask?
200
This Greek statue type marked graves and looked like a heroic teenager forever.
What is a Kouros/Kore?
200
This church ceiling explodes with illusion, 3D plaster, and divine light.
What is Il Gesu / Triumph of the Name of Jesus?
200
The Seated Boxer really went through it, and his beaten and bruised expression is characteristic of this era of Mediterranean sculpture.
What is the Hellenistic era?
300
This Islamic architectural feature ensures worshippers face Mecca—directionally divine.
What is a mihrab?
300
These big eyed little guys serve as physical representations of prayers and devotion, often placed in temples to offer perpetual worship.
What are votive figures?
300
Egyptians believed this object housed the ka and ensured a smooth afterlife journey.
What is a sarcophagus?
300
Rubens’ created this dramatic series of 24 paintings to show the life of the French queen.
What is the Marie de’ Medici Cycle?
300
The Etruscans didn’t do boring tombs—this one’s got leaping dancers and fresco parties.
What is the Tomb of the Triclinium?
400
This Hindu temple features a towering vimana and was built for the worship of Shiva in South India.
What is Lakshmana Temple?
400
These African masks are intended to honor an important individual in society.
What are Mblo masks?
400
The Catacomb of Priscilla was full of these horizontal shelves for burial - if you were lucky, you had your own, but if you were poor, you may have been sardined in there with a few other bodies.
What are loculi?
400
This lavish palace was as extra as the Sun King...I mean Louis XIV.
What is Versailles?
400
This ancient structure in Rome doubled as a sports arena and a demonstration of concrete engineering.
What is the Colosseum?
500
This Islamic prayer hall in Spain features horseshoe arches and a hypostyle design to accommodate communal prayer.
What is the Great Mosque of Cordoba?
500
This Aztec calendar stone isn’t about keeping dates—it’s about keeping cosmic order.
What is the Sun Stone (Calendar Stone)?
500
This elaborate burial site in China was filled with over 8,000 life-size warriors ready to serve in the afterlife.
What is the Terracotta Army/Warriors?
500
This sculpture by Bernini is based on a very intense dream had by this woman.
Who is St. Teresa?
500
This complex served as the center of Greek culture, and is often thought of as the birthplace of democracy.
What is the Parthenon / Athens?