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Caution: Wet Paint!
Begins with C
Burials
Natural World
Human Figure
100
medium of wet plaster and tempura
What is a fresco?
100
This is where you will find most early Christian frescoes.
What are the catacombs?
100
Wax death masks were made into Roman portrait busts that were kept here.
What is in the home?
100
In Early Christian art, Christ was often depicted as a man in charge of this type of animal
What are sheep?
100
the "perfect" classical greek female
What is Aphrodite of Knidos?
200
This culture is credited with creating the first frescoes.
What is Minoan?
200
The Etruscans created a statue of this mythical three-headed beast.
What is a chimera?
200
The seated statue of Khafre was built to house this.
What is his Ka?
200
The dying lioness is done in this type of relief.
What is bas-relief?
200
he is the first example of contrapposto
What is Kritios Boy?
300
The peaches fresco from Pompeii is the earliest known example of this
What is still life?
300
post-impressionist and pre-cubist known for his still-lifes and landscapes
Who is Cezanne?
300
Heinrich Schliemann referred to one of these as the “Treasury of Atreus.”
What is a tholos?
300
This culture created the “so called” snake goddesses.
What is Minoan?
300
sculptor of Hellenistic, Weary Herakles
Who is Lysippos?
400
This style of Roman Wall Painting utilizes thin, wispy, unrealistic architecture.
What is the third style?
400
The Doric metopes on the Parthenon depict, among other things, a struggle between the lapiths and these mythical creatures.
What are centaurs?
400
The Hegeso stele was created by this culture.
What is Classical Greek?
400
this sport was depicted on the walls of the Palace of Knossos
What is bull-leaping?
400
Rodin's pensive sculpture
What is the Thinker?
500
The fresco in the Villa of the Mysteries most likely depicts an initiation into the rites of this god.
Who is Dionysus?
500
This is where the Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius was placed by christians.
What is the Campidoglio?
500
His sarcophagus shows a combination of Christian themes with pagan imagery.
Who is Junius Bassus?
500
this American Hudson River School artist specialized in landscapes that depicted the majesty and purity of nature
Who is Bierstadt?
500
this David is effeminate, as was the style
What is Verrocchio's David?