Paleolithic Art
What does "Paleolithic" mean?
Old Stone (Age)
Who was the supreme goddess that governed all?
Maat
What was the name of Homer's famous story?
The Illiad
Name of the famous Egyptian Pharaoh tombs?
Pyramids/The Great Pyramids
This artist supposedly cut off his own ear
Where was art first found?
Caves in France, Spain, Africa
What was the soul called in Ancient Egypt?
Ba/Ka
Name an ancient Aegean City
Mycenae, Corinth Knossos, Phaistos
Name of one of the first tombs designed by Egyptians (shaped like a trapezoid)
Mastaba
This artist painted "American Gothic," a famous painting that features a farmer and his wife.
Grant Wood
Name one of the caves where art was found
Altamira, Lascaux
Who was the most powerful ruler Egypt has ever known?
Ramsay the Great
Name the King that we think the Minotaur myth came from
Minos
Name the architecture "shape" of the Stonehenge stones
Post and Lintel
This artist invented the painting style "Cubism" and loved animals
Pablo Picasso
Why did cavemen paint abstract images?
Tell a story, calendar, explain hallucinations, count
Where are the famous mummies now?
Cairo
Give an example of cross-cultural artistic influence in Greece
Chinese-like frescoes in Crete, Egyptian like Sarcophagus
Obelisk
This artist/inventor could write with both hands at the same time, backwards
Leonardo Da Vinci
Why do we think the cave paintings were spiritual?
Horned people drawings, they didn't paint animals they ate
What is the name of Ramsay the Great’s Temple?
Abu Simbel
Who is the God of Light and Music?
Monolith
This artist gave a speech in a scuba suit, and once tried to live weeks without drinking water
Salvador Dali