Stone Age Art
The date that the oldest cave paintings were created
What is 30,000 BCE?
The rivers where Ancient Mesopatamian Art originated
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The sea where the three islands originated
What is the Aegean Sea?
The typical column styles of Greek art
What are Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian?
The material that the Romans discovered, which had contributed to architecture
What is concrete?
Wild Card: The country that was ruled by Nubia for a period of time
What is Egypt?
The reason why there are less examples of Mesopotamian art
What is Mesopotamian being vulnerable to invasion?
The types of art that the Cycladic culture produced
What are female sculptures, pottery, and marble bowls, and marble jars?
The period when the best known ancient Greek art was created
What is the Classical Period?
It allowed the forming of bridges and aqueducts
What is the curved arch?
The reason why cavemen began to make art in rock shelters during the Middle Stone Age
What is the climate/ temperature warmed?
Style of art that uses relative size to portray status
What is a hierarchical scale?
The legend that came from the Minoan culture
What is the Minotaur, half-man, half-bull?
Shows the body to its best advantage, also known as counter-positioning
What is contrapposto?
They were monuments to the engineering genius of the Romans
What are the Colosseum and the Pantheon?
The difference between the cave paintings and rock paintings
What is the depiction of human beings?
Technique that presents figures as clearly as possible, which became the standard for centuries
What is fractional representation?
The types of art that the Minoan culture produced
What are frescoes and pottery designs?
One of the most admired works of all ages
What is the Parthenon?
The types of sculptures that the Romans produced
What are reliefs, sculpted portraits, and statues?
The most common art forms associated with the New Stone Age
What is rings or rows of stones
The date at which King Tutankhamun's tomb was found
What is 1922?
Things that the Mycenaeans were known for
What are elaborate tombs, burial practices, and relief sculptures?
The period in which Corinthian columns became more popular
What is the Late Classical Period?
Wild Card: The most important architectural achievements of the Persian Empire
What is the palace at Persepolis?