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Prehistoric
Egyptian
Greek
Roman
Christian
100
This began over 27,000 years ago
What is art?
100
These are the 3 major periods of Egyptian history
What is the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and the New Kingdom?
100
A tall ancient Greek jar with two handles
What is an amphora?
100
Two features blended for Temple Architecture
What are Etruscan and Greek?
100
Subterranean networks of galleries and chambers designed as cemeteries for the Christian dead, many of them sainted martyrs.
What are the catacombs?
200
Name some characteristics of the prehistoric people
They lived in caves, survived by hunting and gathering, no organized government or religion, gradually evolved into learning how to use tools to make things, and art was made for practical purposes to help with hunt or please natural forces
200
Much of the sculpture was destroyed in the Middle Kingdom by...
Who are the invaders and the New Kingdom rulers?
200
What are the three periods of Greek history?
What are the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods?
200
Also called a cross vault; needs less buttressing
What is a groin vault?
200
Period where Jesus appeared with a halo, purple robe, and a throne
What is the Period of Recognition?
300
Figure was made of stone and resembled a very robust and large woman
What is the Venus of Willendorf?
300
The artwork during the New Kingdom was depicted in a much more ___________ way
What is realistic?
300
A male youth
What is a kouros?
300
Latin for the sand, coating the floor that soaks up the blood of the combatants
What is an arena?
300
First made using beach pebbles, later on used marbl; creating complex volumes and images; color was placed not blended; larger pieces could be viewed at a distance
What is a mosaic?
400
This was used as an astronomical calendar
What is Stonehenge?
400
The place where a body was preserved and protected in a stone coffin
What is a sarcophagus?
400
A pose in which the weight of the body is balanced on one leg while the other leg is free and relaxed; S-curve
What is contrapposto?
400
Hole at the top of a dome that allows light to come in
What is an oculus?
400
Cruciform means...
What is cross shaped?
500
Where were there paintings of animals and everyday life?
What is a cave?
500
Early form of picture writing
What are hieroglyphics?
500
A quality that causes people to feel sympathy and sadness
What is pathos?
500
Name the three innovative engineering techniques developed by the Romans?
What are roads, aqueducts, and arch bridge?
500
A diptych has how many plates?
What is two?