I Rule
Holy Books
What is the Meaning of This?
Sculpture
A Place to Die
100
My uncle Julius Caesar adopted me.
Who is Augustus?
100
This is the holy book of the Muslims.
What is the Quran?
100
A Medieval brooch typically used to fasten garments.
What is a fibula?
100
This type of Roman sculpture emphasizes wrinkles and was popular during the Roman Republic.
What is Veristic?
100
The standard tomb type in early Egypt that derived from the Arabic word for 'bench.'
What is a mastaba?
200
My son Titus led the Jerusalem wars.
Who is Vespasian?
200
This is the Chi-rho page from this Hibernian-Saxon book.
What is the Book of Kells?
200
The shift of weight in the body that suggests movement.
What is contrapposto?
200
Sculptures of this figure often include mudras rather than facial expressions.
Who is the Buddha or Siddhartha Gautam?
200
These underground tunnels were used for the burials of early Christians and Jews.
What are the catacombs?
300
My palace, the Domus Aurea, had an artificial lake.
Who is Nero?
300
A book of Muhammad's sayings which explicitly prohibits figural representation.
What is the Hadith?
300
An almond-shaped nimbus surrounding a holy figure, such as the Buddha or Christ.
What is a mandorla?
300
Etruscans were experts at sculptures made out of this material.
What is terracotta?
300
The Hindu release from the cycle of rebirth.
What is moksha?
400
I was Trajan's chosen successor and a fellow Spaniard too.
Who is Hadrian?
400
The term used to describe a full decorative page in a Gospel book filled with interlace and geometric designs.
What is a carpet page?
400
Comes from the Greek, "writing of images," and which refers to content and subject of an artwork.
What is iconography?
400
The entrance to the Parthenon was enlarged to accommodate her statue.
Who is Athena Parthenos?
400
St. Peter was supposedly crucified here, upside-down, where Nero held his chariot races.
What is Nero's Circus?
500
My father, Constantius Chlorus, was Diocletian's Caesar of the West until he died and I became the first Christian emperor.
Who is Constantine the Great or Constantine I?
500
There was a shrine in the temple at Dura-Europos for this holy book.
What is the Torah?
500
A niche in the wall of a mosque that points toward Mecca.
What is a mihrab?
500
This Hindu god is shown dreaming the origins of the universe on the Deogarh Temple in U.P. India.
Who is Vishnu?
500
A church bears the shape of this important Christian symbol.
What is a crucifix or cross?