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Flashcards for identifying artworks based on their title, artist, date, materials, location, and art historical period.
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Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)
Artist: Unknown
Date: ca. 70–80 CE
Materials: Concrete, stone (Key term: vault, amphitheater)
Location: Rome, Italy
Period: Imperial Rome
Key terms: Barrel vault, groin vault, amphitheater, concrete, engaged column, Roman Basilica, arches, voussoirs, keystone, spolia
Pantheon
Artist: Apollodorus of Damascus (traditionally attributed)
Date: Completed 125 CE
Materials: Concrete, marble
Location: Rome, Italy
Period: Imperial Rome
Key terms: Dome, oculus, coffers, portico, pediment, Corinthian columns, central plan, concrete, spolia
Portraits of the Four Tetrarchs
Artist: Unknown
Date: ca. 300 CE
Materials: Porphyry (Key term: porphyry)
Location: Constantinople (now at Saint Mark’s, Venice)
Period: Late Antiquity
Key terms: Sculpture in the round, spolia
Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
Artist: Unknown
Date: ca. 359
Materials: Marble (Key term: sarcophagus, relief, register, frieze)
Location: Rome, Italy
Period: Late Antiquity
Key terms: Sarcophagus, relief (high/low), register (frieze), continuous narrative, Old Testament, New Testament, Christian iconography
Santa Sabina
Artist: Unknown
Date: 422–432
Materials: Brick, wood, marble
Location: Rome, Italy
Period: Late Antiquity
Key terms: Basilica plan, nave, aisle, apse, clerestory, Roman Basilica, spolia
Hagia Sophia
Artist: Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus
Date: 532–537
Materials: Brick, stone, mosaic
Location: Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey
Period: Early Byzantine
Key terms: Dome, pendentives, mosaic, basilica plan, central plan, spolia
Justinian, Bishop Maximianus, and attendants mosaic
Artist: Unknown
Date: ca. 547
Materials: Mosaic (Key term: mosaic, tesserae)
Location: San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy
Period: Early Byzantine
Key terms: Mosaic, icon, halo, continuous narrative, imperial iconography
Theodora and attendants mosaic
Artist: Unknown
Date: ca. 547
Materials: Mosaic
Location: San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy
Period: Early Byzantine
Key terms: Mosaic, icon, halo, imperial iconography
Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George
Artist: Unknown
Date: 6th or early 7th century
Materials: Encaustic on wood (Key term: icon, encaustic)
Location: Monastery of Saint Catherine, Mount Sinai, Egypt
Period: Early Byzantine
Key terms: Icon, encaustic, iconoclasm, halo, aniconic
Great Mosque
Artist: Unknown
Date: 706–715
Materials: Stone, mosaic
Location: Damascus, Syria
Period: Early Islamic
Key terms: Mosque, hypostyle, mihrab, qibla wall, minaret, courtyard arcade, aniconic, arabesque
Koran page with beginning of surah 18
Artist: Unknown
Date: 9th or early 10th century
Materials: Ink and gold on vellum
Location: Chester Beatty Library and Oriental Art Gallery, Dublin
Period: Early Islamic
Key terms: Manuscript, codex, illumination, parchment/vellum, kufic, Koran (Qur’an), scribe, aniconic
Purse cover
Artist: Unknown
Date: ca. 625
Materials: Gold, glass, cloisonné garnets (Key term: cloisonné)
Location: Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, England
Period: Early Medieval
Key terms: Cloisonné, animal style, spolia
Chi-rho page
Artist: Unknown, probably Iona monks
Date: Late 8th or early 9th century
Materials: Tempera on vellum
Location: Trinity College Library, Dublin (probably from Iona, Scotland)
Period: Early Medieval
Key terms: Manuscript, codex, illumination, Gospel Book, scribe, parchment/vellum, continuous narrative
Book of Kells
Royal portal, west facade of Chartres Cathedral
Artist: Unknown
Date: ca. 1145–50
Materials: Stone
Location: Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France
Period: Gothic
Key terms: Portal (tympanum, lintel, jambs, archivolts), Gothic, relief, sculpture in the round
Christ in Majesty, tympanum central portal
Artist: Unknown
Date: ca. 1145–50
Materials: Stone
Location: Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France
Period: Gothic
Key terms: Tympanum, Christ in Majesty, mandorla, relief, portal
Royal Portal, Prophets and Ancestors of Christ
Artist: Unknown
Date: ca. 1145–50
Materials: Stone
Location: Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France
Period: Gothic
Key terms: Portal, jambs, prophets, ancestors, kings, queens, relief, sculpture in the round
Virgin and Child and angels
Artist: Unknown
Date: ca. 1170
Materials: Stained glass
Location: Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France
Period: Gothic
Key terms: Stained glass, lancet window, rose window, Gothic, halo,
(Notre Dame de la Belle Verrière)
Chartres Cathedral
Artist: Unknown
Date: rebuilt after 1194
Materials: Stone, stained glass
Location: Chartres, France
Period: Gothic
Key terms: Gothic, pointed arch, flying buttress, rose window, nave, choir, clerestory, stained glass, lancet window, spolia
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