Art History Quiz 2

Name: Chichén-Itzá: the Temple of Kukulkan or El Castillo,

Time: 1200 CE

Culture: Mayan

Place: Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico

Chacmool from Chichén Itzá

Mayan

Mexico

1200 CE

Ruler's head, basalt stone sculptures

900 BCE

Olmec

Mexico, San Lorenzo

Altar/throne 5 in La Venta

900 BCE

Olmec

basalt stone

Offering of the jaguar baby

Buried offering of miniature figures and monoliths, jade and other precious stones,

Olmec

900 BCE

La Venta, Mexico

Asokan Stambha (pillar),

250 BCE

Lauriya, India,

Buddha's Throne (Vajrasana),

Bihar, India,

c. 250 BCE

Great Stupa,

Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India,

c. 250 BCE

The Torana

Great Stupa, Sanchi, India

c. 250 BCE

Jataka stories,

Bharhut stupa,

Madhya Pradesh, India

2 century BCE

Borobudur Temple,

Java, Indonesia,

c. 860CE

Aristion of Paros, kore of Phrasikleia,

c. 550-540 BCE,

Myrrhinous, Greece

Parthenon (Temple of Athena Parthenos),

447-432 BCE

Iktinos and Kalikrates,

Akropolis, Athens,

Phidias, Athena Parthenos,

Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece, MODERN COPY of lost ivory and gold statue, ca.

438 BCE

Exterior, Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater),

concrete

Rome, Italy,

ca. 70-80 CE

Pair of clasp knife handles in the form of a murmillo and thraex,

middle of the 1st century CE, Szombathely, Hungary,

bone (handles) and iron (blades).

Anthemios of Tralles and Isidore of Miletus, Hagia Sophia Cathedral,

532-37 CE

Constantinople (today Istanbul),

Artists unknown, "Decisis" (Christ with Mary and St. John the Baptist),

mosaic,

Church of Hagia Sophia, ca. 1261 CE

ICON Christ Pantokrator, c. 6th century,

encaustic paint and gold on wooden panel,

St. Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt

The Dome of the Rock,

Jerusalem,

completed 691-92 CE, 72

The Blue Qur'an, gold on silver on indigo dyed parchment,

850-950 CE

Tunisia, probably ayrawan,

The reliquary of St. Foy, c. 1000 CE

Conques france

with later additions, gold, silver gilt, jewels, and cameos over a wooden core

Last Judgment Tympanum,

c. 1130 CE

Conques, France,

Angkor Wat,

c. 1113-45 CE

Angkor, Cambodia,

Khmer dynasty,

The Churning of the Sea of Milk,

low relief,

Angkor Wat, Cambodia

Choir, Basilica of St. Denis, Paris,

1140-44 CE,

planned with Abbot Suger of St. Denis

Virgin and Child, from

Saint Denis, France,

1260 CE.

Ivory with traces of paint and gilding

the Kennicott Bible, abstract ornaments,

Joseph ibn Hayyim,

1476 CE

The Great Mosque at Djenne,

adobe (mud brick)

Mali, Inland Niger Delta,

c. 1300 CE, restored 1907

Seated figure, possibly from Ile-Ife, found at Tada, Nigeria, l

ate 13th/14th century.

Copper with traces of arsenic, lead, and tin,

Nigeria

Kneeling figure, Mali, Inland Niger Delta region,

terracotta,

Djenné peoples,

13th century,