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Artistic devices used to glorify a ruler's image include an idealized image and ____.
symbols
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In the Egyptian sculpture Menkaure and His Wife, Queen Khamerernebty, the figures are shown ____.
standing side by side
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(Emperor Justinian and His Attendants) In this image, Justinian is shown as a(n)____.
emperor-priest
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(Emperor Justinian and His Attendants) This image is an example of a(n) ____.
mosaic
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(Emperor Justinian and His Attendants) The twelve figures flanking Emperor Justinian in this image allude to ____.
the twelve apostles
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The Crowned Head of an Oni demonstrated the Yoruba and Benin skill in ____.
metallurgy
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In ancient Hawaii, only royalty could own or wear precious objects made of ____.
feathers
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Royal kahili were simply ____.
fly whisks
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Triumph of the Will was a film glorifying ____.
Hitler
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Palaces are different from ordinary residences by ____.
their grand size
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Achaemenid architecture is especially distinguished by ____.
its grand use of columns
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Versailles was built in the ____ style.
Baroque
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The Lamassu was a figure that stood on ____.
five legs
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The Houses of Parliament were built in the ____ style
Gothic Revival
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The Maori Meeting House represented the ____ of a great ancestor.
body
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To remember military victories, the Romans built ____.
arches
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An apotheosis means that someone has become ____.
deified
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A warrior on horseback is called a(n) ____.

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equestrian
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The Benin Plaque with Warrior and Attendants represented the king's ____.
power
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Picasso’s Guernica dramatized the 1937 destruction of the Basque capital during the ____.
Spanish Civil War
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The Palette of King Narmer glorifies ____.
war
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The Assyrians dominated the Near East for over three hundred years and were known for their ____.
ruthlessness and brutality
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A fantastic creature, the Lamassu had the head of a ____.
human
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England’s Houses of Parliament used new building materials such as ____.
cast iron
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The first to photograph war, ____ made 3,500 photographs covering both sides of the U.S. Civil War.
Matthew Brady
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____ have symbolized peace in Western art.
\-doves

\-winged allegorical figures

\-women
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A ruler’s image is often ____, meaning it is depicted without flaws and often with youthful vigor.
idealized
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The Palette of King Narmer represents the forceful ____.
unification of Egypt
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To emphasize Christianity in the image The Emperor Justinian and his Attendants, a soldier’s shield displays the ____, an ancient symbol of Christ.
Chi-Rho
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The film ____ established Adolph Hitler as the first media hero of the modern age.
The Triumph of the Will
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Abandoned prior to Spanish conquest, the ____ created Palenque, a large palace complex with high platforms and relief sculpture.
Mayans
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The ____ in China was built as a sign of Imperial power and as an instrument to maintain power.
Forbidden City
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The seat of power for King Louis XIV of France, ____ was originally Louis’s grandfather’s hunting lodge.
Versailles
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The ____ of China, considered to be a “wonder of the world,” is a monumental example of war architecture.
Great Wall
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Known for its cinematic technique, the film The Battleship Potempkin used ____ to allow viewers to piece together the story from fleeting images.
montage
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Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial in Washington, D.C., was designed to glorify the Vietnam War. (T/F)
False
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Guernica was a temporary memorial honoring the victims of September 11. TF
False
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Emperor Justinian’s wife, Theodora, was depicted as having equal rank and power to her husband. TF
True
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Hawaiian royal objects were made of materials that were taboo to all others except royalty.
True
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The imagery in Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will was strictly documentary and was not manipulated by the director. TF
False
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King Louis XIV of France was also called the Sun King because he identified himself with the god Apollo. TF
True
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The Palette of King Narmer was used for mixing black eye makeup worn by ancient Egyptian men and women.
True
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Art protesting a particular war was first seen____.
two hundred years ago
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Francisco Goya's The Executions of May 3, 1808, sympathize with____.
Spaniards
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Both Kathe Kollwitz and George Grosz____.
protested against wars
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Much of John Heartfield’s art protested against ____.
Nazi Germany
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David Alfaro Siqueiros protested against the ____.
Spanish Civil War
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Robert Motherwell believed that abstraction communicated best____.
The struggle between life and death
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The Surrealists believed in automatism, which includes the idea of____.
Intuition
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Tomatsu Shomei's photographs are of victims of ____.
The atomic bomb
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Eugene Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People is  ____ in its portrayal of fighting as thrilling, dangerous, and liberating.
romantic
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Leon Golub's Mercenaries I is particularly imposing because of its____.
large size
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Lewis Hine's photos of child laborers have long ____, which fully documented their youthfulness. 
titles
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Jacob Lawrence did a series of paintings describing the tribulations of____.
African Americans
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The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti was done by____.
Shahn
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jacob Lawrence's artistic style was____.
flat and simple
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William Kentridge created charcoal drawings and film animations reflecting the causes and injustices of ____.
apartheid
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Edward Kienholz's work is based on his experiences as ____.
a mental hospital worker
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Ester Hernandez uses ____ to make her artistic protests.
humor
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Yinka Shonibare's Mr. and Mrs. Andrews without Their Heads is a parody of a work by____.
Gainsborough
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Abrogio Lorenzetti's Allegory of Good Government was____.
fresco
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The ____ Codex Borbonicus is a religious calendar that was made during the period of the Spanish conquest.
Aztec
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(Francisco Goya The Executions of May 3) This painting was ____.
painted six years after the event from sketches the artist made
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(Francisco Goya The Executions of May 3) The function of this painting was to ____.
illustrate an event that occurred when Napoleon Bonaparte’s army occupied Madrid
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(Käthe Kollwitz The Outbreak (Losbruch)) This work is an example of art as ____.
social protest
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(Käthe Kollwitz The Outbreak (Losbruch)) The subject matter in this work deals with ____.
the Peasant War in Germany in the sixteenth century
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The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti uses ____ as a protest strategy.
narrative
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Osorio’s mixed-media ____ The Scene of the Crime (Whose Crime?) affirms the worth of Puerto Rican culture in New York, while depicting how the people are depicted in mass media.
installation
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____ did a series of forty-one paintings on the life of Francois-Dominique Toussaint-L’Ouverture, a slave who led a revolt in Haiti that resulted in the abolition of slavery there in 1794.
Jacob Lawrence
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In Jacob Lawrence’s tempera paintings, the use of space and color, as well as the bright patterns of handmade rugs, indicate the influence of ____.
Cubism
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The Aboriginal Memorial commemorates all the native peoples of Australia who died as a result of the ____.
European Settlement
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____ is an African American artist who creates life-size, cutout silhouette figures based on racist imagery of the slave era in the United States.
Kara Walker
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Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Allegory of Good Government was painted when ____ was still a patchwork of city-states in constant turmoil, rather than a unified nation.
Italy
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In The Ambassadors, Hans Holbein the Younger portrays Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve as ____, indicated by the objects on the table between them, which reflect their interest in culture, arts, mathematics, and astronomy.
humanists
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The ____ is the normal, existing state of affairs, which appears natural or inevitable instead of constructed or evolving.
status quo
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The nineteenth-century French artist ____ was known for his pointedly satirical, political cartoons.
Honore Daumier
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Robert Motherwell was influenced by the Surrealist concept of ____, which incorporates intuition, spontaneity, and the accidental when creating artwork.
automatism
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Robert Motherwell’s Elegy to the Spanish Republic was made in response to the influenza epidemic of 1918. TF
False
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Tomatsu Shomei’s Senji Yamaguchi of Urakami is an example of documentary photography. TF
True
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Most social protest works of art are designed to prescribe specific changes and actions. TF
False
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Edward Kienholz’s The State Hospital uses ugliness to criticize the way society deals with people it deems incompetent. TF
True
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Hatoum’s Light Sentence deals with personal identity, the body, surveillance, and control. TF
True
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Viola’s series titled The Passions is based on ____ paintings of figures in sorrow, ecstasy, or astonishment.
Renaissance and Baroque
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The Study for the Portrait of Okakura Tenshin showed the Japanese characteristics of ____.
flat shapes and contour lines
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In Pollock’s Lucifer, the style of painting called ____ involved the motion of the artist’s entire body.
action painting
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Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet featured ____ to show the artist's state of mind.
thick paint
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Chuck Close uses ____ to convey importance in his portraits.
scale
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Nancy Burson's Faces are portraits of children with ____.
unusual faces
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Lucian Freud's Leigh under the Skylight is a portrait of ____.
a unique man
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Rembrandt's portraits reveal that The Netherlands encouraged ____.
individualism
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Frida Kahlo's many self-portraits show her face as ____.
unemotional
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A Yakshi is a representation of ____.
fertility
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According to Protagoras, man is the ____ of all things.
measure
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Doryphoros translates to ____.
spear bearer
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The Doryphoros is idealized in several ways, including ____.
its restrained emotions
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Traditional African sculpture portrays the frontal view as ____.
symmetrical
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Many African sculptures considered the head and ____ as most important.
neck
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Laocoön and His Sons revealed ____ Greek attitudes about the body during the Hellenistic period.
changing
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Medieval Christians felt the ____ was more important than the ____.
soul/body
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Eadweard Muybridge's photos of human bodies revealed his ____ attitude towards the human body.
detached