Egyptian Art
Islamic Art
Medieval Art
Classical Art
The Basics
100

This river is of great importance to Egyptian culture.

What is the Nile?

100

The structure in which Islamic worship takes place.

What is a mosque?

100

This type of medieval art looked back to the art of the Roman Empire for inspiration.

What is romanesque?

100

This monument located on the Acropolis in Greece is a temple dedicated to Athena.

What is the Parthenon?

100

A type of analysis that looks at the color, line, shape, form, space, texture, value, and color of a work.

What is a formal or visual analysis?

200

Egyptian kings were seen as this in human form?

What are gods?

200

The part of a mosque that functions to call Muslims to prayer.

What is a minaret?

200

The migrations of Germanic people caused the fall of this empire in the west.

What is the Roman Empire?

200

This city provides a wealth of archaeological information due to the fact that it was buried under volcanic ash.

What is Pompeii?

200

A kind of sculpture that is meant to be inhabited.

What is architecture?

300

This young Egyptian king's tomb was discovered with a huge amount of gold objects and walking sticks.

Who is Tutankhamen?

300
Artists from this empire were often employed to create mosaics for Islamic monuments.

What is the Byzantine Empire?

300

Oseberg, Mammen, and Urnes are styles associated with this culture.

Who are the Vikings?

300

This monument in Rome saw gladiator fights, mock sea battles, and executions among other things.

What is the Colosseum?

300

A set of works and artists that are understood as the most important in art and are taught as such.

What is the canon?

400

This Egyptian pharaoh was often depicted in typical male fashion despite being female.

Who is Hatshepsut?

400

This monument is believed to be the place where Abraham prepared to sacrifice Isaac.

What is the Dome of the Rock?

400

This type of page could often be found at the front of the gospels in Celtic gospel books.

What is a carpet page?

400

This Roman monument employs continual narration to show an Emperor embarking on the first Dacian Campaign.

What is Trajan's column?

400

The identification of subject matter and its symbolism.

What is iconography?

500

This Egyptian king moved the capital, changed the religion, and instituted a new artistic style.

Who is Akhenaten?

500

This architectural element indicates the direction of Mecca toward which Muslims should pray. 

What is the mihrab?

500

This ship burial contained a huge amount of international goods indicating a wealthy and multicultural grave site.

What is Sutton Hoo?

500

This kind of sculpture was a male type and was often used as a funerary marker.

What is a kore?

500

A type of sculpture that is carved into the substance.

What is a recessed sculpture?