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Indian Art
Chinese Art
Japanese Art
Pre-Columbian Art
African Art
100
A major aspect in Indian works.
What is ornamentation?
100
A religion that greatly influenced Chinese art.
What is Buddhism?
100
Buddhism aside, Japanese artists also drew influence from this country.
What is China?
100
Pre-Columbian cultures, such as the Maya and the Aztec, occupied this area
What is Central America?
100
A common purpose for African art.
What are religious ceremonies? (or 'What are rituals'?)
200
Consists of a mandapa, shikhara, and an entrance portico.
What is a Hindu temple plan?
200
This subject was often painted, beginning in the T'ang Dynasty, reaching its apex in the Sung Dynasty.
What are landscapes?
200
The period where screens of fortresses were beautifully painted.
What is the Momoyama period?
200
Often inscribed on the sides of Mayan temples.
What is the Long Count Calendar?
200
A painted heavily influenced by African art.
Who is van Gogh?
300
Ornamental relic mounds, first appearing in the Sunga dynasty.
What is a stupa?
300
A structure that is a surviving work of the Ming Dynasty.
What is The Great Wall?
300
A type of art that encompasses works of the Ukiyo-e painters.
What are wood-block prints?
300
This culture is responsible for the great cities of Machu Piccu and Cuzco.
Who are the Incas?
300
A disc-headed statuette created by the Ashanti culture.
What is an akua'ba?
400
A type of highly developed sculpture popular in southern India; their chief subjects were gods, humans and beasts.
What is medieval bronze sculpture?
400
Chinese painters relied on control of this aspect of painting.
What are brushstrokes?
400
A period unique do to the onset of dry-lacquer statues.
What is the Nara period?
400
Famous Peruvian sculptures of human heads that are astonishingly realistic.
What are the Mochica Portrait vessels?
400
These were the subjects of many African wood-carvings and statues.
What are ancestors?
500
Temples that were lavishly decorated inside, but had little ornamentation other than white marble on the outside.
What are Jain temples?
500
The construction of this building was influenced by Buddhism.
What is the pagoda?
500
An elegant, traditional means of painting during the Fujiwara period.
What is the Yamato-e tradition?
500
A strange sculptural, yet architectural, element of the Tolec culture.
What is an altantid?
500
The characteristic appearance seen in elegant figures of the Dogon culture.
What is abstract?