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Ancient Egypt
It's Monumental
It's All Greek to Me
Life...
...and Death
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This Early Dynastic work depicted the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt.
What is the Palette of Narmer?
100
This structure at Saqqara utilized traditional Egyptian funerary practices in a way that gave rise to "true" pyramid construction.
What is the Stepped Pyramid of Djoser?
100
This type of sculpture figure was a depiction of the heroic ideal in Archaic Greek art.
What is the kouros (or kore)?
100
This Ancient Egyptian symbol represents everlasting life.
What is the ankh?
100
In Ancient Egypt, these were often set in elaborate, body-shaped caskets and adorned with painting, gold and jewels for such Kings as Tutankhamen.
What are mummies?
200
These are the attributes of kingship in Ancient Egyptian regardless of gender.
What are the kilt, linen headdress and false beard.
200
This Old Kingdom group of structures made out of granite and limestone are the tombs of Menkaure, Khafre, and Khufu.
What are the Great Pyramids at Giza?
200
In Greek sculpture, this type of stance shifts from rigid earlier poses to one where the weight of the figure is on one side more than the other in a more naturalistic rendering of the human form.
What is contrapposto?
200
This type of image from daily life such as these often adorned such vessels as hydrie in Ancient Greek red-figure and black-figure painting.
What is a narrative image? (Or "What is narrative imagery?")
200
These low, trapezoidal mounds were the traditional type of burial structure in Egypt and gave rise to such work as the Stepped Pyramid of Djoser.
What are mastabas?
300
Senusret, who ruled during the 12th dynasty of Ancient Egypt was a _______________ kingdom ruler. The art of the period that he ruled in was marked by a new level of emotionalism and naturalism in royal portraiture.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
300
This Classical Greek, sacred structure built in 447 b.c.e. and dedicated to the goddess Athena was among many buildings and statues in the Athenian Acropolis.
What is the Parthenon?
300
What are the three orders of Greek architecture?
What are Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian?
300
This early ____________ culture decorated the interior walls of its dwellings with vast, large-scale paintings of daily life.
What is the Minoan culture?
300
These are Ancient Egyptian scrolls of parchment with a selection of magic spells meant to help the deceased survive a “last judgment” and win everlasting life.
What are Books of the Dead? (Or "What is a Book of the Dead?"
400
This New Kingdom ruler, had her funerary temple complex with its multiple hypostyle halls constructed across the Nile from the capital city of Thebes instead of in Giza.
Who is Hatshepsut?
400
Often found on monumental buildings, these are sculptures of draped female figures that act as a columns that support an entablature.
What are caryatids? (Or what is a caryatid?)
400
The columns at the Parthenon have a subtle swelling and tilt in slightly. This architectural device is called ________.
What is entasis?
400
This New Kingdom pharaoh, who was married to Nefertiti, founded a new religion honoring a single god--"the life-giving sun disk Aten" thus ushering in a brief period of monotheism in Ancient Egypt.
Who is Ankenaten? (Or, who is Amenhotep III?)
400
This type of Ancient Greek vessel often depicted registers of narrative scenes that included funerary ceremonies and the types of funerary games and processions that would have been performed for heroic figures.
What is a krater?
500
This Ancient Egyptian artistic period is characterized by Greco-Roman influences.
What is the Late Egyptian period?
500
These corbel vaulted, circular burial chambers were often underground. The Minoans constructed monumental, above-ground ones.
What are Tholos tombs?
500
This period was characterized by small, marble, sculptures-in-the-round that would have also been painted and with hair that often depict people engaging in such leisure activities as playing music. The sea-faring culture was agrarian, made utensils and engaged in trade.
What is the Cycladic period?
500
Late & high classical Greek architectural campaigns not only included civic and sacred buildings but also these, which were primarily used for performances and are semi-circular, stepped depressions that lead to a rectangular raised platform that included ramps and a proscenium.
What are theaters? (Or what is the theater?)
500
In Late Egypt's Roman period, mummies found in the Fayum region of Lower Egypt often included a portrait of the deceased painted in this medium on panel that was inserted over the deceased's face.
What is encaustic?