Paleolithic and Neolithic
Ancient Egypt
Bronze Age Aegean and Early Greece
Archaic and Early Classical Greece
High and Late Classical Greece
100
This cave in France has paintings that are at least 36,000 years old. The paintings primarily feature formidable wild animals.
What is Chauvet Cave?
100
During this period, the standards and conventions in ancient Egyptian royal art, which had been stable for centuries, radically shifted.
What is the Amarna period?
100
The so-called "Dark Ages" of ancient Greece was brought on by this event.
What is the Bronze Age Collapse?
100
This term describes the highlighted space and would have housed the cult statue of a deity in a Greek temple.
What is the cella?
100
This term describes the relaxed pose typical of Greek sculpture beginning in the Classical period.
What is contrapposto?
200
This Neolithic site was composed of circles of monoliths that were ritually buried.
What is Göbekli Tepe?
200
Arabic for "bench," this term describes the earliest stage of Egyptian tomb architecture.
What is mastaba?
200
This culture produced so-called "palaces," which might have actually been complexes comprises both domestic space and market space and that have been described as "labyrinthine."
What is the Minoan culture?
200
This cultural and political upheaval caused by this conflict marked the transition from Archaic Greece to Classical Greece.
What is the Persian War?
200
This architectural order was the last of the three canonical Greek orders to develop and is the most ornate.
What is the Corinthian order?
300
This Neolithic site utilized monoliths that were cut and secured according to techniques derived from carpentry.
What is Stonehenge?
300
This term is a synonym for "composite view" and is used to describe a convention for representing a human figure in ancient Egyptian art.
What is twisted perspective?
300
This culture from the Bronze Age Aegean produced highly stylized and simplified marble statuettes of humans that utilized a sort of canon of proportions deriving from superimposed circles.
What is the Cycladic culture?
300
These two characteristic features alternate across the frieze of a Doric building. On an Ionic building, there would instead be a continuous frieze.
What is triglyph and metope?
300
This sculpture, also called the Canon, was made as a demonstration of the ideal proportions and artistic qualities discussed in a treatise by Polykleitos.
What is the Doryphoros?
400
The function of these Paleolithic figures is unknown, but it is thought that they either served as fertility totems or communicated a state of fertility to outsiders.
What are "Venus" figurines?
400
After the Old Kingdom, pyramids were no longer built, and this was the preferred royal tomb structure.
What are Egyptian rock-cut tombs?
400
This culture used "cyclopean" masonry to produce citadels.
What is the Mycenaean culture?
400
This term describes one of the rigid, nude, athletic, life-size figures produced in Archaic Greece that served as either grave markers or votive offerings.
What is kouros?
400
Through metaphor, this is the message communicated in the sculptural program on the Parthenon.
What is the Greeks' victory over the Persians in the Persian War?
500
These figures, amalgamations of humans and animals, are relatively common finds from the Paleolithic world, and they suggest symbolic thinking, shamanism, and/or a system of mythology.
What are hybrid figures?
500
These are two motifs that symbolically refer to Upper and Lower Egypt, and they are deployed together to signify the unity of the two areas of ancient Egypt.
What are the lotus and papyrus?
500
This artifact is located at the entrance to the citadel at Mycenae and would have communicated a powerful message of strength and domination.
What is the Lion Gate?
500
This object is perhaps the earliest surviving life-size sculpture of a person from Greece.
What is the Nikandre Kore?
500
The Panathenaic Procession culminated at this building with the ritual gift of a new peplos to the sacred cult statue of Athena held inside.
What is the Erechtheion?