The Americas
The Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon are found on what sacred road at Teotihuacan?
The Avenue of the Dead
Orients the direction of prayer in a Muslim mosque
Mihrab
What is a humanist?
Someone who studies antiquity. In the Renaissance, the triumph OVER antiquity is key.
The representation of a thing, place, or idea in the form of a human being
Personification
Where were both the Sipan earspools and the peanut necklace found?
A tomb!
What allowed Gothic buildings to be built higher than Romanesque buildings?
Pointed arch
Which book features a set of comparative prompts "correlating sacred and temporal time"?
Tres Riches Heures
A reminder of death, such as a human skull or skeleton, meant to suggest the ephemeral nature of life on earth
Memento mori
Which culture uses a "stirrup spout" vessel?
Moche
What type of religious building did we discuss at Dura Europos?
A synagogue
What innovation does Masaccio's "Trinity" in Florence employ?
The single vantage point
The arm of a cruciform (cross-shaped) church that is perpendicular to the nave
Transept
A person dressed as a Teotihuacano deity
ixiptla
What material is the Good Shepard of Ravenna composed of?
Mosaic tile
Who is know for his use of sfumato, or the deliberate blurring between figures?
Leonardo DaVinci
Quechua word for the Andean concept of convergence, or "two into one," the point at which two things come together, often to create a third and different thing
tinkuy
In royal art, Pakal imagined himself as which Maya deity?
The Maize God
The tympanum of the Church of Sant-Foy depicts what?
The Last Judgement
Who painted the Scrovegni Chapel?
Giotto
An image that symbolizes an idea, concept, or principle, often moral or religious
Allegory