Early Art
True or false: The Venus of Willendorf is one of the oldest known representations of the human figure
True
Wood carvings, both masks and sculpture-in-the-round, were the typical artistic products of this place.
What is Africa?
Name two of the four major artistic breakthroughs of the Renaissance.
What are oil on stretched canvas, perspective, chiaroscuro, and pyramid configuration?
Caravaggio was known for perfecting the use of this in his paintings - one of the four major art breakthroughs of the Renaissance.
What is chiaroscuro?
This "-ism" brought with it a revival of Greek and Roman history in art.
What is Neoclassicism?
This is the name of the caves in France where some of the first paintings were discovered.
What are the Lascaux Caves?
African masks would later inspire this artist to pioneer the Cubist movement.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
This early Renaissance artist painted "The Birth of Venus."
Who is Boticelli?
Rembrandt and Vermeer were among the artists that had their work stolen from this Boston museum.
What is the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum?
John Singleton Copley painted a portrait of this man, which now hangs in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.
Who is Paul Revere?
"Books of the Dead" containing declarations and spells to help the deceased in the afterlife were commonly used by these people.
Who are the Egyptians?
Name one of the three main styles of Medieval Art.
What are Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic?
This famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci shows the moment after Christ tells his disciples that one of them will betray him.
What is "The Last Supper"?
This artist is the most well-known of the Spanish Baroque period, and painted "Las Meninas" - considered by some to be the world's greatest painting.
Who is Diego Velazquez?
David's masterpiece, "The Death of Marat," has been compared to the sculpture "Pieta," by this Renaissance artist.
Who is Michelangelo?
This country created some of the earliest vase designs in the Geometric Style.
What is Greece?
Small pieces of colored stone were used to make images called these, and were common in the Byzantine style.
What are mosaics?
This Northern Renaissance artist is considered a forerunner of Surrealism.
Who is Hieronymus Bosch?
This palace appeared beautiful from the outside, but contained many dirty secrets (and surfaces).
What is the Palace of Versailles?
"The Third of May, 1808," is this artist's response to the slaughter of 5,000 Spanish civilians.
Who is Francisco Goya?
This former Roman temple was built to honor all gods.
What is the Pantheon?
This gothic cathedral was constructed over the course of six centuries.
What is Cologne Cathedral?
This German Renaissance artist was the first to use printmaking as a major medium for art.
Who is Albrecht Dürer?
This style of art was essentially decorative and nonfunctional.
What is Rococo?
"Saturn Devouring His Son" is from a series of paintings Goya made on the walls of his home, the group of which have come to be known by this title.
What are the black paintings?