Art Techniques and Materials
The Great Sphinx of Giza was carved from this type of stone.
What is Limestone?
This place was used for gladiatorial games.
What is the Colosseum?
This pharaoh, famous for the Great Pyramid of Giza, ruled during Egypt's old Kingdom.
Who is Khufu?
A Babylonian legal text that was written by the sixth king of the First Dynasty of Babylon.
What is the Law Code of Hammurabi?
A hellenistic dramatic figure that depicts a headless winged sculpture.
What is the Winged Victory of Samothrace?
What the Seated Boxer is made out of.
What is Bronze?
A tomb that has a array of intricate frescos depicting scenes of a banquet.
What is the Tomb of the Triclinium?
A female pharaoh who ruled for 20 years.
Who is Hatshepsut?
During the Archaic period, this type of statue depicted the ideal male youth.
What is Kouros figures?
This art era in Greece is defined by dramatic and emphasized movement.
What is the hellenistic period?
A mural technique that involves applying water-based pigments to freshly applied plaster, creating a permanent part of the wall.
What is a fresco?
A marble temple to Athena on top of the Acropolis.
What is the Parthenon?
Siblings from mythology who killed the children of Niobe due to her pride.
Who is Artemis and Apollo?
These non naturalistic figures have large, bugged out eyes.
What are Votive figures?
This period created a shift in Egyptian style due to change in state religion by Akhenaten. Amun to Aten the sun god.
What is the Amarna period?
This style of pottery features red figures against a black background, popular in classical Greece.
What is red-figure pottery?
Who did Trajan defeat?
The Dacians
What is Augustus known for?
Pax-Romana.
A large layered tomb depicting the Battle of the Romans and the Barbarians.
The Romans are shown as brave and heroic and the Barbarians are portrayed as scary-looking caricatures.
What is the Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus?
In what period were the Lamassu created?
Neo-Assyrian.
What is the culture of the White Temple and its ziggurat ?
Sumerian Architecture
What is the Athenian Agora?
An Acropolis that served as a market and a governmental building.
What is the medium of King Menkaure and Queen?
Greywacke
What does The Alexander Mosaic depict?
Battle of Issus, a great fight that occurred on November 5, 333 B.C.E. in what is now modern-day Turkey. It took place between the (Hellenic League) forces of the Macedonian-Greek Alexander the Great and the (Achaemenid Persian) forces of Darius III—a struggle which would ultimately result in a victory for Alexander.
A sculpture standing on the right foot, left leg relaxed. Bearing more weight on one leg (unequal)
What is Contrapposto?