Paleolithic Period
She was probably created as a fertility symbol.
What is the Venus of Willendorf?
Most of Egyptian life revolved around this.
What is death/the afterlife?
Mesopotamian art was create primarily for this purpose.
What is worship?
This place may have given color to the myth of the Cretan Labyrinth.
What is the Palace at Knossos?
Greece and Egypt had strong economic relations as evidenced by this.
What are the Kouroi?
The delicate lines carved in the Venus of Lespugue indicated to us that this was around quite early?
What is weaving?
This architectural staple first appeared in Egypt.
What is the column?
Sumerian sculptors primarily began sculpting from this shape.
What is a cylinder?
A painting done on wet plaster.
What is a Fresco?
Kouroi means this in Ancient Greek.
What are youths?
This is a wall-mounted sculpture in which the three-dimensional elements are raised from a flat base
What is a relief?
The Egyptian God of the Sun.
What is Ra?
This was what the central place of worship was called in Mesopotamia.
What is a ziggurat?
The Boxers at Thera, shows most movement in what aspect of the work?
What is its contour?
This came before the Archaic period in Greek art.
What is the Geometric Period?
Many early works depict animals with their heads turned back. This is called ______.
What is alarm pose?
In Egyptian art, this person was probably the largest depicted.
Who is the Pharaoh?
This is the precious stone that the Ishtar Gate was made to resemble.
What is Lapis Lazuli?
The Harvester Vase, depicting singing men is crucial to history because for the first time we see a freedom in this type of expression.
What is emotional?
The Greek style of this is characterized by the figural depictions in red color on a black background.
What is Red-figure vase painting?
This was probably a sanctuary for religious rituals, one of the earliest known art.
What is the Hall of Bulls?
Egyptian art, while not particularly realistic is usually described as _______.
What is flat?
Mesopotamian script.
What is cuneiform?
In the dagger that depicted men on a lion hunt showed great _______.
What is movement?
Bronze sculptures in ancient Greece were ________ in scale.
What is small?