Art Appreciation 2 Quiz

TITLE:  Sarcophagus with reclining couple

PERIOD/LOCATION: Etruscans - Europe

TITLE:  Aule Metele (Orator)

PERIOD/LOCATION: Etruscans - Europe

TITLE: Portrait of Augustus as a general

MATERIAL: copy of a bronze original

PERIOD/LOCATION: Roman Empire - Europe

TITLE: Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater) MATERIAL: concrete and marble PERIOD/LOCATION: Roman Empire - Europe

TITLE: Yoke

PERIOD/LOCATION: Veracruz culture- Americas

TITLE: City of Teotihuacan

PERIOD/LOCATION: Teotihuacan culture - Americas

TITLE: Portraits of the Tetrachs MATERIAL: Porphyry PERIOD/LOCATION: Roman Empire - Europe

TITLE: Restored view of Old Saint Peter’s, Rome

PERIOD/LOCATION: Roman Empire - Europe

TITLE: Cubiculum from the Catacomb of Saints Peter and Marcellinus

PERIOD/LOCATION: Roman Empire - Europe

TITLE: Justinian, Bishop Maximianus, and attendants

PERIOD/LOCATION: Byzantine - Europe

ARTISTS: Anthemius and Isidorus TITLE: Hagia Sohpia PERIOD/LOCATION: Byzantine - Europe

TITLE: Dome of the Rock PERIOD/LOCATION: Islamic world - Near East

TITLE: Great Mosque, Damascus PERIOD/LOCATION: Islamic world - Near East

TITLE: Hypostyle prayer hall, Great Mosque, Spain PERIOD/LOCATION: Islamic world - Europe

TITLE: Historical Buddha (Shakyamuni) PERIOD/LOCATION: Sixteen Kingdoms - Asia

TITLE: Bodhisattva, probably Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) PERIOD/LOCATION: Northern Wei - Asia

TITLE: Tōdaiji PERIOD/LOCATION: Nara period - Asia

TITLE: Hinged clasp from the Sutton Hoo ship burial MATERIAL: gold, glass, and cloisonné garnets PERIOD/LOCATION: Early medieval - Europe

TITLE: Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne PERIOD/LOCATION: Carolingian - Europe

TITLE: Schematic plan for a monastery at Saint Gall PERIOD/LOCATION: Carolingian - Europe

TITLE: Muisca raft (tunjos) MATERIAL: gold PERIOD/LOCATION: Muisca - Americas

ARTIST: Chakalte’ TITLE: Relief with Enthroned Ruler PERIOD/LOCATION: Maya - Americas

TITLE: Serpent Mound PERIOD/LOCATION: Mississippian - Americas

TITLE: Hummingbird MATERIAL: layer of pebbles scraped to reveal light clay ground PERIOD/LOCATION: Nasca - Americas

TITLE: Plan and reconstruction, Santiago de Compostela PERIOD/LOCATION: Romanesque - Europe

TITLE: Reliquary of Sainte  Foy PERIOD/LOCATION: Romanesque - Europe

TITLE: Ambulatory and radiating chapels of Saint Denis PERIOD/LOCATION: Gothic - Europe

ARTIST: Fan Kuan TITLE: Travelers among the Mountains and Streams PERIOD/LOCATION: Song Dynasty - Asia

TITLE: David Vases MATERIAL: porcelain PERIOD/LOCATION: Yuan Dynasty - Asia

ARTIST: Zhao Mengfu TITLE: Autumn Colors on the Qiao and Hua Mountain PERIOD/LOCATION: Yuan Dynasty - Asia

TITLE: Genji visits Murasaki, Tale of Genji, Heian period PERIOD/LOCATION: Heian period- Asia

TITLE: Kandariya Mahadeva temple, Khajuraho PERIOD/LOCATION: Medieval - South Asia

TITLE: Interior of Sainte-Chapelle, Paris PERIOD/LOCATION: Rayonnant Gothic - Europe

TITLE: Figure of a King (oni) PERIOD/LOCATION: Ife culture- Africa

TITLE: Great enclosure PERIOD/LOCATION: Great Zimbabwe - Africa

TITLE: Court of the Lions, Alhambra MATERIAL: stone and stucco PERIOD/LOCATION: Islamic world - Europe

TITLE: Cliff Palace PERIOD/LOCATION: Ancestral Puebloan - Americas

ARTIST: Giotto TITLE: Lamentation Arena Chapel PERIOD/LOCATION: Proto-Renaissance - Europe

ARTIST: Filippo Brunelleschi TITLE: Sacrifice of Isaac PERIOD/LOCATION: Renaissance - Europe

ARTIST: Donatello TITLE: Saint Mark, Orsanmichele PERIOD/LOCATION: Renaissance - Europe

ARTIST: Jan van Eyck TITLE: Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife MATERIAL: oil on wood PERIOD/LOCATION: Renaissance - Europe

TITLE: Forbidden City,  Beijing PERIOD/LOCATION: Ming Dynasty - Asia

Patrician

a Roman freeborn landowner

Plebian

the Roman social class that included small farmers, merchants, and freed slaves

Tetrarchy

Greek, “rule by four.” A type of Roman government established in an attempt to foster order by sharing power with potential rivals

Basilica

a public Roman building used for legal and civic proceedings. In Christian architecture, a church somewhat resembling the Roman basilica, usually entered from one end and with an apse at the other.

Catacombs

Subterranean networks of rock-cut galleries and chambers designed as cemeteries for the burial of the dead.

Prefiguration

: in Early Christian art, the depiction of Old Testament persons and events as prophetic forerunners of Christ and New Testament events.

Pendentive

a concave, triangular section of a hemisphere, four of which provide the transition from a square to the circular base of a dome.

Mosaic

patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces (tesserae) of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls or floors.

Congressional mosque

: a city’s main mosque, designed to accommodate the entire Muslim population for the Friday noonday prayer.

Bodhisattva

in Buddhist thought, a potential Buddha who choses not to achieve enlightenment in order to help save humanity

Cloisonné

a decorative metalwork technique employing cloison, or “paritions” in French. This is where a cell of metal wire is created to hold enamel, stones, or pieces of colored glass.

Renovatio imperii

Latin for “renewal of the Roman Empire.” This was a goal for Charlemagne, who sought to revive the glory of Early Christian Rome.

Monastic order

an organization of monks living according to the same rules, often set apart from the secular world

Effigy mounds

ceremonial mounds built in the shape of animals or birds by native North American peoples

Romanesque

“Roman-like,” a term used to describe the history, culture, and art of medieval western Europe from ca. 1050 to ca. 1200

Pilgrimage

a journey of moral or spiritual significance, typically to a shrine or other holy locations

Reliquary

a container for holding relics

Barrel vault

also called a tunnel vault, it is semicylindrical in cross-section and is in effect a deep arch or an uninterrupted series of arches over an oblong space

Rib vault

a vault in which diagonal and transverse ribs compose a structural skeleton that partially supports the masonry web between them

Pointed arch

a narrow arch of pointed profile, in contrast to a semicircular arch

Garbha griha

: Hindi for “womb chamber,” in Hindu temples this space is the holy inner sanctum that typically housed the god’s image or symbol.

Shikhara

Hindi for “mountain peak,” these are the beehive-shaped towers found in northern-style Hindu temples.

Porcelain

: a ceramic made by heating material, generally kaolin, in a kiln – involving vitrification (making into glass)

Yamato-e:

also known as native-style painting, a purely Japanese style that often involved colorful, decorative representations of Japanese narrative or landscapes

Attributes

elements that allow objects, artists, or subjects to be identified

stucco

construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water. It is applied wet and hardens to a dense solid. It is used as a decorative coating for walls and ceilings

Pueblo

a communal multistoried dwelling made of stone or abode brick by the Native Americans of the Southwest. Upper-case Pueblo refers to various groups that occupied such dwellings.

Kiva

a square or circular underground structure that is the spiritual and ceremonial center of Pueblo Indian life.

City-state

an independent, self-governing city

Foreshortening

The use of perspective to represent the apparent contraction of an object that extends back in space

Linear perspective

: The use of perspective to represent the apparent contraction of an object that extends back in space

classical

Lowercase classical refers more generally to Greco-Roman Art and culture

Oil painting

a painting technique using oil-based pigments that rose to prominence in Northern Europe in the 15^th century