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Mayan and Aztecan Art
Indian Architecture
Sub-Saharan Art
South American Art
Edo-Period Japanese Art
100
This is the region of the Americas in which Mayan and Aztecan art was primarily found.
What is Central America?
100
The are the most famous remains from the Maurya Dynasty? Hint: they were topped with Lotus capitals and aminal sculptures.
What are the edict pillars.
100
This material was most commonly used in sculpture and carving.
What is wood?
100
These are the two great cities of the Incan empire, known for their architectural and engineering skill.
What are Cuzco and Machu Picchu?
100
The Edo period emphasizes a return to these three aspects of traditional Japanese artwork.
What are literature, calligraphy, and painting?
200
This Aztec city, its capital that was founded by 1344, is a great architectural work overall and is a great feat of engineering due to the causeways built to and from the city.
What is Tenochtitlan?
200
This period in Indian artistic history is often considered a "golden age".
What is the Gupta period?
200
This is, in African animist religions, considered as vital energy as well as a living state.
What is "being"?
200
This civilization was known for agricultural terraces, entensive roads, bridges, mountain cities, and craftsmanship in stone carving and metalwork?
What is the Incan civilization?
200
The name for wood-block prints that depict everyday scenes; the name translates as "pictures of the fleeting floating world".
What is Ukiyo-e?
300
These two periods of the Mayan civilization, lasting from 300 B.C.E. to 300 C.E., marked the development of many artistic achievements; these included writing, the development of the calendar, and the building of greatly-stylized palaces and temples.
What are the Formative and Proto-Classic periods?
300
These, painted in vivid primary colors, are best recognized by the protruding eye.
What are Jain manuscript illuminations?
300
This people's sculpture is characterized by free-standing ancestor figures with cylindrical torsos, abstract softwood masks, and decorative, cubistic high-relief ancestor figures.
What is the Dogon culture?
300
These popular tourist attractions, which can only be truly seen from the air, are considered to be linked to religious practices, as they are littered with oyster shells and purposely thrown pottery.
What are the Nazca Lines?
300
These ornamental buttons are characteristic of Edo Period artwork.
What are netsuke?
400
This was inscribed on nearly all Mayan monuments that date from the Classic Period (300 C.E. to 900 C.E.).
What is the "Long Count Calendar"?
400
These are the two primary materials used in the composition of Indus Valley statuettes.
What are steatite and limestone?
400
This people, known for sculpture of religious cult objects, inhabited Southwestern Nigeria.
What is the Yoruba culture?
400
This people created the largest pyramid in South America, the Pyramid of the Sun.
What is the Mochica people?
400
This is the approximate range of years of the Edo Period of Japanese art.
What is 1615 to 1867?
500
Aztec artwork often assumed a morbidity in its representations of sacrifices to this Aztecan god.
What is Huitzilopochtli?
500
This type of artwork includes some of the earliest depictions of Buddha.
What is Ghandara art?
500
The most reknowned example of Ashanti metalwork; this was formerly a symbol of Ashanti royalty.
What is the gold encrusted stool?
500
These are the two Incan fortresses best known for their display of Incan craftsmanship and ingenuity in design.
What are Sacsahuamán and Ollantaytambo?
500
These two artists created the Deer Scroll.
Who are Koetsu and Sotatsu?