What are the main attributes of Greek Hellenistic art?
100
Hatshepsut's status as pharaoh
In the kneeling statue of Hatshepsut what does the royal male nemes headdress indicate?
100
Stonehenge
What is the most famous megalithic monuments from the Neolithic period in Western Europe?
100
Represent eternal wakefulness and duty
What do the Two Statuettes of Worshippers from Ancient Sumer represent?
100
Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt?
What does the Palette of Narmer commemorate?
200
Egyptians
The funerary practice of the Mycenaeans, covering the faces of the dead with gold masks, recalls what other culture?
200
Triangles
Cycladic figurines were rendered with a series of these simple geometric shapes.
200
The profile view
What view was used almost exclusively for the representation of animals in Paleolithic art?
200
Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia
What was the Code of Hammurabi?
200
The most significant resource for understanding Egyptian civilization and religious beliefs
Why are tomb interiors important when studying Ancient Egypt?
300
A standing nude figure of a young man known in Greek art
What is a kouros?
300
Island of Crete
Where was the largest and Cretan palace and legendary home of King Minos?
300
Health and fertility
What may Nude Woman from Willendorf have represented to the people that created her?
300
Narrative presented in registers or bands
What compositional device did they use?
300
The fenestrated part of a building that rises above the roofs of the other parts, first seen in its primitive form in the valley temple of the Pyramid of Khafre.
Definition of clerestory and where it was first seen?
400
Kritios Boy
What is the earliest example of the use of contrapposto in a statue?
400
The largest sculpture in the prehistoric Aegean. It consists of two great monoliths and a huge lintel.
What is The Lion Gate of Mycenae?
400
Regular appearance of human figures
What distinguishes Paleolithic paintings from Neolithic paintings?
400
Guardian in the form of a man-headed winged bull in Assyrian art of the Ancient Near East.
What is a Lamassu and where might you find one?
400
Deliberate artistic reaction against the established canon
Why was Akhenaton depicted as androgynous and misshapen?
500
Pericles and Phidias
Who were the patron of the Acropolis and the artistic director of the Acropolis?
500
Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt
The use of guardian figures on the Lion Gate is reminiscent of which other civilizations?
500
Hierarchy of scale
What is an artistic convention in which greater size indicates greater importance.
500
In Mycenaean architecture such as the Treasury of Atreus, a beehive-shaped tomb with a circular plan.
What is a tholos tomb?
500
The sculpture Hero and centaur (Herakles and Nessos?)