In much African Art this body part is overly enlarged in the belief that it holds one's life force.
What is the head?
100
This mastery of brushstroke was often reverred by the Chinese as the highest art form.
What is calligraphy?
100
This artistic style translates into "pictures of the fleeting floating world."
What is Ukiyo-e?
100
This Yucatan civilization is best known for its temples and elaborate calendar.
What is the Maya?
100
This painting, known for the sitter's enigmatic smile, is perhaps the most famous painting in the world.
What is the Mona Lisa?
200
The Ashanti culture "birthed" these dolls, known to them as "akua'ba"
What are fertility dolls?
200
During China's early dynasties, this material was used to create high quality castings that were both meagerly and ornately adorned.
What is bronze?
200
This impressionist, known for his numerous depictions of dancers, was influenced by Japanese color-prints.
Who is Degas?
200
In this culture representations of human hearts, hands, and sacrificial scenes were common.
What is the Aztecs?
200
This Renaissance master paints himself among other philosophers in The School of Athens.
Who is Raphael?
300
This 20th century Cubist was insipired by abstract, conceptual African art used during religious ceremonies.
Who is Picasso?
300
Buddhist sculpture flourished for 600 hundred years before reaching its peak during this dynasty.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
300
This structure, erected during the Edo period is known for its merging of outdoor and indoor spaces.
What is the Katsura Palace?
300
This pyramid, built by the Mochicas, is the largest pyramid in South America.
What is Pyramid of the Sun?
300
"The Contest", known by many experts as the birth of Renaissance, was won by this artist.
Who is Ghiberti?
400
This West African culture is known forr its free standing ancestor figures that can be pierced with iron hooks to counteract the life force in teh wood.
What is the Dogon?
400
This monochrome style of painting from the Sung dynasty represented Taoist and Confucian views.
What is landscape painting?
400
This name for a Japanese hanging scroll, often set up on a silk brocade.
What is kakemono?
400
The Incas, who built Machu Pichu and other imposing fortresses, was the only South American civilization to surpass this other South American culture.
What is teh Chan Chan?
400
Stressing grace, beauty, and harmony, Botticelli's painting the birth of this goddess broke many Renaissance ideals.
What is Venus?
500
THis culture creates masks using a powerful style also used in 7th to 9th century Greek art.
What is Fang?
500
During this dynasty Chinese figural which represented figures as robust reached its peak.
What is T'ang Dynasty?
500
This shrine, rebult after WWII, honored both the emperor and the emperor's wife, Empress Shoken.
What is the Meiji Shrine?
500
The colossal and realistic Basalt heads, carved by the Olmecs, were created during this period.
What is the Formative Period?
500
Mantegna's use of this technique in "Dead Christ" succesfully creating the allusion of a figure in space, as well as a compressed Christ.