Art Appreciation Chapter 9 Quiz

The Crowned Head of an Oni is rendered in a style that is:

naturalistic

The Palace at Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico was built for which culture?

Mayan

The Toltecs created massive columns as human figures that represented:

unconquerable warriors

What is not true about the Great Wall of China?

It was constructed with concrete arches of polygonal voussoirs

This climactic scene from the Heiji Monogatari reveals:

an attack on a medieval Japanese palace.

Picasso's mural Guernica expresses the artist's concern for:

the Nazi bombing of a small town in northern Spain.

Red Horse's Battle of Little Big Horn is a visual narrative about:

the defeat of General Custer by the Sioux.

What historical event inspired Hicks' painting of The Peaceable Kingdom?

The Treaty between Quaker William Penn and the Indians

The Chinese emperors were believed to be the Sons of Heaven who ruled by divine mandate.

True

Olowe of Ise carved a Maoi statue for the Nigerian Palace at Persepolis.

False

The Imperial Throne Room in Beijing's Hall of Supreme Harmony was a required pilgrimage destination for the entire Hindu population.

False

The Ara Pacis Augustae was a Byzantine mosaic placed in the apse of a Russian Orthodox Church.

False

Many cultures have devoted resources and expert craftsmanship to the creation of weapons for functional and ceremonial purposes.

True

Maya Ying Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial is located in New York City's Central Park

False

Assyrian palaces were decorated with ___________, winged creatures that had the body of a bull or lion and a human head.

lamassus

Royal men in Hawaiian culture used elaborate feathered fly whisks called _________.

kahili

The mid-19th century reconstruction of the British Houses of Parliament is identified as a ___________ Revival style.

Gothic

The splendor of The Hall of Mirrors in the Palace at Versailles was intended to reinforce the idea of King Louis XIV as the ___________ King, or the god Apollo.

Sun

The Arch of ___________ included a relief panel depicting the emperor being carried up to heaven on the back of an eagle, giving a visual image of his deification.

Titus

Andrea del Verrocchio created the ___________ Monument to Bartolomeo Colleoni.

Equestrian

The Palette of King Narmer glorifies the unification of ___________ by means of war.

Egypt

The iridescent green feathers of Moctezuma's Headdress were derived from the ___________.

quetzal bird

Riefenstahl's film Triumph of the Will established Hitler as the first media hero of the modern age.

True