Art Materials
The material often used for sculptures by Romans and Greeks in the Classical era.
What is marble?
This era introduced one-point perspective and oil painting to Western art.
Compared to earlier churches, Gothic cathedrals were filled with this substance.
What is light?
The Romans stole most of their best art and architecture from this culture.
Who are the Greeks?
The type of painting material was invented in the Renaissance.
What is oil paint?
This era often depicted humans in their most ideal form.
What is the Classical era?
In ancient Greek culture, sculptures of ideal human figures regularly represented these.
What are the gods?
This era emerged during tremendous economic growth in key European port cities.
What is the Renaissance?
The type of paint is applied directly into wet plaster.
What is fresco?
This era was the first to depict deities as ideal human beings.
What is the Classical era?
Renaissance art regularly depicted these kinds of subjects.
The Medieval era occurred after this historic collapse.
What is the fall of the Roman empire?
One of the two engineering marvels that made Gothic cathedrals so tall.
What are flying buttresses or vaulted arches?
This era developed tall, bright churches in order to create a more transcendent space.
What is the Medieval/Gothic era?
Medieval art is entirely Christian because this entity rose to social power after the fall of the Roman empire.
What is the Catholic Church?
This part of Europe first began depicting non-religious art during the late Renaissance.
What is Northern Europe?
The material that monks wrote on to scribe religious texts in the medieval era.
What is vellum?
This era was the first to depict patrons (buyers) within the art work.
What is the renaissance?
Painted on the ceiling of the Sistine chapel, one of Michelangelo's most famous masterpieces depicts this subject.
What is the story of creation?
While most of Europe collapsed during the Dark Ages, this country's art and culture flourished at that time.
What is Ireland?