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What are the two modes used to analyze a work of art?
formal and contextual analysis
What are examples of archival sources?
letters, documents, and art criticisms
Who analyzed historical and contemporary art?
Pliny the Elder
What is the name of the text written by Pliny the Elder?
Natural History
Who gathered biographies of Italian artists?
Giorgio Vasari
What is the book that Giorgio Vasari penned?
The Lives of the Artists
Which German scholar shifted to the study of stylish development from Vasari's emphasis?
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
What is the oldest work of art?
cave paintings in the Chauvet cave
The best-known small stone female from
the old stone age is ______. Venus (or Woman) of Willendorf
Where was the only cave painting located that depicts a human ?
Lascaux
The most well-known megalithic rock
arrangement is found in ______ Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England
Stonehenge consists of _____ and ______.
Sarsen (sandstone) and bluestone
Which marks the point at which the sun rises on the midsummer solstice?
"heel-stone"
Platform structures that evolved into stepped pyramids are called _____.
Ziggurats
Who was able to centralize the whole of Mesopotamia and when?
Hammurabi, the king of Babylon in 1792 bce
The oldest known legal code is called _____.
The Code of Hammurabi
The best-known artwork from Hammurabi period is known as ____
stone-stele
Who is the Sun god from whom Hammurabi is believed to have got inspiration for his code of law?
Shamash
Who dominated the northern part of Mesopotamia?
Assyrians
When was the hanging garden of Babylon constructed?
during neo-Babylonian period between 612-538 bce
What was the name of the gateway to the great ziggurat of the temple of Bel?
Ishtar Gate
The most important architectural achievement of Persians is ______.
The Palace at Persepolis
The style that is followed by most of the Egyptian art is _____.
hierarchical scale
An example of hierarchical scale is ______.
Palette of King Narmer
Which is the most famous of the Egyptian tombs?
Tomb of a boy king, Tutankhamun
What is the most famous of all the objects that are found in Tutankhamun's tomb?
Tutankhamun's burial mask
What is the earliest of the three cultures that flourished in the Aegean island?
Cycladic culture
Where did the Minoan culture develop?
Island of Crete
What are the two major forms of Minoan paintings?
Frescoes painted on palace walls and pottery designs
What are the styles used in building temples during the Archaic period?
Doric and Ionic
The style used in making floral ornament background in vase paintings is called _______
Corinthian style
Black figures with more linear and larger in scale used ______.
Athenian-style
A pose that was invented to show the body to its best advantage is called _____.
contrapposto
When was the Parthenon temple restored after being destroyed by Persians in 480 bce?
447 bce
What are the notable works of the Late Classical Period?
Venus de Milo and Laocoöon Group
Which artwork is the Etruscan civilization famous for?
Tomb decoration
Which two buildings remain as monuments to the engineering genius of the Romans?
Colosseum and Pantheon
What is the best-known art from Byzantium?
Mosaic work
What is the greatest architectural achievement in Byzantine architecture?
Hagia Sophia built in Constantinople
Name two examples of illuminated manuscripts.
Book of Kells and Coronation Gospels
When the Vikings culture merged with the Anglo-saxon found in England and Celtic Ireland, it resulted in a new artistic style called _____.
Hiberno-Saxon
Give an example of Romanesque architecture.
Saint-Sernin in Toulouse, France
What is the difference between Romanesque churches and churches built earlier?
stone-vaulted buildings
What is the name of the vault that is formed with a tunnel of arches in Romanesque Churches?
Barrel Vault
What is unique about Gothic style architecture?
pointed arches
Thin stones or ribs built under the intersection of vaulted sections of the ceiling are called _______.
ribbed vaults
What is the name of the additional bracing material and arch placed on the exterior of the building?
flying buttresses
Give an example of Gothic style architecture.
Chartres Cathedral in France
What Florentine is most associated with the transitional period from late medieval period to renaissance?
Giotto di Bondone
What is the major development during the Renaissance period?
development of paper money
What was the competition that was held in the city of Florence in 1401?
design of the doors for the city's new baptistery
Who won the competition about the design of the doors for the city's new baptistery?
Lorenzo Ghiberti
What does Ghiberti's panel design depict?
the sacrifice of Isaac
What name did Michelangelo give to the second door designed by Ghiberti?
"Gates of Paradise"
Who introduced the concept of double-shelled dome design?
Filippo Brunelleschi
Who used both linear and aerial perspectives in the frescoes?
Masaccio
Who is considered as the founder of modern sculpture?
Donatello
What is the best-known painting of Botticelli?
The Birth of Venus
Who are the models for the term 'Renaissance Man'?
Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
What special thing is used in the Mona Lisa painting?
Sfumato (smoke with mellowed colors and blurred outline)
What are the famous statues sculpted by Michelangelo?
Moses, The Dying Slave and The Bound Slave
How much time did Michelangelo take to complete the decoration of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
four years
Who was the most influential painter of the high Renaissance period?
Raphael Sanzio
One of the masterworks of Raphael Sanzio is ______.
Sistine Madonna
Who did the painting The Tempest?
Giorgione
What is the subject of the painting in The Tempest?
landscape
What is the most common technique used by Tintoretto?
dramatic angles
What does Tintoretto use to heighten the emotional impact of his subjects?
chiaroscuro
Who is mostly associated with the Counter-Reformation?
Dominikos Theotokopoulos - also known as El Greco
Who are considered the greatest artists of the Renaissance in northern Europe?
Matthias Grünewald and Albrecht Dürer
A great masterpiece of Grünewald is _____.
Isenheim Altarpiece
Which style of art has the greater sense of movement and energy?
Baroque art
Caravaggio used extremes of dark and light in his works, which is often termed as ______.
Caravaggesque
Who is the important woman amongst the Baroque artists?
Artemisia Gentileschi
What is the most important masterpiece of Gianlorenzo Bernini?
The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
The best-known work of Dutch artist, Rembrandt van Rijn is _____
The Night Watch
What is the name of the new genre of painting innovated by Jean-Antonie Watteau?
Fête galante
A style of art that instilled the revival of interest in the arts of Greece and Rome is called ______.
Neoclassicism
Which painting of Jacques Louis David illustrated republican virtues?
Oath of the Horatti
Which work of Gustave Courbet had political implication in the context of a wave of revolutions from 1848?
The Stonebreakers
Who is referred to as the first Impressionist?
Édouard Manet
Which is the well-known painting of Manet?
Luncheon on the Grass
Which artist emphasized the scientific rules of color?
Georges Seurat
What is the technique used by Georges Seurat?
optical mixing
What is considered a place of vice according to Van Gogh?
Night Café
A group of artists who felt dissatisfied with the industrial revolution banded together and they were known as _____.
Pre-Raphaelites
Pre-Raphaelites' emphasis on nature and sweeping curves gave way for ___________.
Art Nouveau
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque developed a new style of art called ______.
Cubism
A group of artists who combined the arbitrary colors of fauvists and the intense feeling in the works of Edvard Munch are called_____.
Die Brücke
Who led the Expressionist group, Der Blaue Reiter, in Germany?
Vasily Kandinsky
What was the first major showing of modern art in the U.S.?
The Armory Show
When did the Harlem Renaissance start?
1920s
What category of art did Duchamp invent?
ready-mades
Which group of artists was influenced by the theory of Sigmund Freud?
Surrealists
What is the name of the German school that was established for architecture and design between the first and second world wars?
Bauhaus
Whose style did the Abstract Expressionist artists follow?
Kandinsky
What are the two types of works used by Abstract Expressionists?
action painting and color field painting
What is one of the most famous works of Robert Rauschenberg?
Monogram
Who is the icon of pop art?
Andy Warhol
The artist mostly known for large, non-objective painting is ______.
Frank Stella
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