Art test #3

Question 1

Some believe that the sculpture Woman of Willendorf was associated with which Paleolithic god?

Answer 1

The Great Mother Goddess

Question 2

Where was the earliest art, we know of found in 2002?

Answer 2

Blombos cave

Question 3

Which Neolithic structure features a ring of posts and lintels?

Answer 3

stoneheng

Question 4

The Mesopotamians built their temples, such as that of Ur-Nammu, on a type of structure called a _____.

Answer 4

Ziggurat

Question 5

Define Ziggurat.

Answer 5

rectangular or square pyramid that is stepped

Question 6

Early stone tools were developed about ________________.

Answer 6

2,000,000 years ago

Question 7

The word “Neolithic” means_______.

Answer 7

new stone age

Question 8

The ancient Sumerians developed the world’s first wheel, plow, and ________.

Answer 8

writing system

Question 9

The Pyramids of Egypt are among the world’s best-known examples of __________.

Answer 9

dry massenry

Question 10

Art from which culture portrays objects and parts of the human body from what that culture identified as their most characteristic angle?

Answer 10

Egyptian

Question 11

Why is Tutankhamen the best-known pharaoh today?

Answer 11

tomb was found intact

Question 12

Why did the characteristics of ancient Egyptian art change relatively little over time?

Answer 12

isolation

Question 13

What is a “Maiden.” Statue of a standing of a standing clothed young woman?

Answer 13

Kore

Question 14

Portrait Head of and Old Man is an example of _________ sculpture.

Answer 14

Roman

Question 15

Which building was designed to honor the goddess of wisdom and prudent warfare?

Answer 15

The Parthenon

Question 16

The meeting of decorative nomadic style and Christianity can be seen most clearly in illustrated books from which country?

Answer 16

Ireland

Question 17

Which cathedral demonstrates all three phases of Gothic architecture

Answer 17

Notre Dame

Question 18

The first Christian churches were patterned after basilicas that were used by the Romans as____________________.

Answer 18

Government buildings

Question 19

The first large sculptures, such as Christ of the Pentacost, since Roman times can be found in what part of Romanesque churches?

Answer 19

above the central doorway

Question 20

Early Christian art was created in private homes and underground burial chambers called __________.

Answer 20

catacombs

Question 21

Which piece is a Roman copy of a Hellenistic work, featuring a Trojan priest?

Answer 21

Laocoon

Question 22

Which country was never Romanized, but became Christianized, and after the fall of Rome became the major center of learning and arts in Europe?

Answer 22

Ireland

Question 23

Define “iconoclast.”

Answer 23

one who apposes creation of images of God. idolatry

Question 24

What was the function of the Roman Colosseum?

Answer 24

amusement

Question 25

Masaccio's The Holy Trinity fresco is considered to be the first painting based on the systematic use of ______ _______.

Answer 25

linear perspective

Question 26

Michelangelo's David has a naturalistic pose, set in contrapposto, demonstrating the influence of _________________.

Answer 26

Classical Greek art

Question 27

In Jan van Eyck's The Arnolfini Portrait, the woman is wearing a green dress to symbolize _________.

Answer 27

Fertility

Question 28

In The Conversion of Saint Paul, Caravaggio created drama through the high contrast of lights and darks and the use of extreme ___________.

Answer 28

foreshortening

Question 29

The influence of Neoplatonism would be most likely when, in a painting, a Renaissance artist highlights a ________ ______ _______.

Answer 29

Nude Paigen Goddess

Question 30

Many Baroque characteristics developed as propaganda for the ________ _________.

Answer 30

Counter reformation

Question 31

In the seventeenth century, in the Netherlands, the major patrons of paintings were _____ _______.

Answer 31

Wealthy merchants

Question 32

With its decorative and sensual qualities, the Rococo style was particularly suited to the extravagant and often frivolous life of ________________.

Answer 32

The French Airostocrasy

Question 33

In her painting Judith and the Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes, Artemisia Gentileschi demonstrates the close influence of which artist?

Answer 33

Caravaggio

Question 34

Which period in Europe Art was the artist Artemisia Gentileschi instrumental in turning toward the depiction of female religious heroes?

Answer 34

Baroque

Question 35

Define "Renaissance."

Answer 35

Rebirth of art and science

Question 36

Which artists created the first life-size free standing statue since Roman times?

Answer 36

Donatello

Question 37

What style of painting was developed by Pieter Bruegel after the Protestant Reformation as a new style of Northern European landscape painting?

Answer 37

Genre painting

Question 38

Which period in European art was dismissed by the following generations as "fluffy", and socially irresponsible?

Answer 38

Rococo

Question 39

Which style is characterized by emotion, drama, and interaction of sculptural forms with the surrounding space?

Answer 39

hellenistic

Question 40

Art style characterized by small-scale and ornate decoration, pastel colors, and asymmetrical arrangement of curves?

Answer 40

Rococo

Question 41

Which artist created a series of work in the style set by the illuminators of medieval calendars?

Answer 41

Pieter Bruegel

Question 42

The Protestant reformation gave way to which style of painting?

Answer 42

Genre painting

Question 43

What language became the language of scholarship for many Muslims, Christians, and Jews from the 8th to the 11th century?

Answer 43

Arabic

Question 44

Buddhist sculptors in which area developed a distinctive style, due to Alexander the Great conquering the area?

Answer 44

Gandhara

Question 45

What was the ancient religion of Japan, which was a form of ancestor and nature worship?

Answer 45

Shinto

Question 46

Where is the Court of the Lions located?

Answer 46

Grenada, Spain

Question 47

In what empire was a new religion created, combining elements from all the religions practiced in the empire?

Answer 47

Mughal

Question 48

In the Hindu religion, the god of destruction and creation is _________.

Answer 48

Shiva

Question 49

Who is one of the most famous monuments of Cambodia, built during the Khmer Empire?

Answer 49

Angkor Wat

Question 50

The Terra Cotta Warriors were found in the tomb of ___________________.

Answer 50

Qin Shi Huangdi

Question 51

Sesshu Toyo painted in a style that was called haboku, meaning _______ _____.

Answer 51

flung ink

Question 52

The Indus Valley is located primarily in the present-day country of ___________.

Answer 52

Pakistan

Question 53

In the evolution of Buddhist architecture, early burial mounds led most directly to the Indian ________.

Answer 53

Stupa

Question 54

What features abstract shapes commonly found on ancient bronze vessels that represent a composite animal whose symbolism is unknown?

Answer 54

Taotie Mask

Question 55

Which culture has traditionally held ceramic arts in high regard, was primarily sponsored by imperials, and had nearly continuous technical advances?

Answer 55

Chinese

Question 56

Because it alone could survive the very high heat of the kilns, which color did the Chinese use to decorate porcelain?

Answer 56

blue

Question 57

Japanese ukiyo-e prints depicted _____________.

Answer 57

every day life

Question 58

A new style of painting created by artists who refuse to teach for the new Mongol government?

Answer 58

Literat

Question 59

Korean potters use "liquid clay," known as ______, to fill in etched surface decorations

Answer 59

slip

Question 60

The technique of decorating architecture with tiles reached a peak of achievement in which country?

Answer 60

Persia

Question 61

Which culture was highly nationalistic, but experienced periods of borrowing culture and art that greatly influenced its development?

Answer 61

Japanese

Question 62

One of the greatest sculptors of Japan, who created a life size sculpture of a legendary Buddhist priest from India?

Answer 62

Unkei

Question 63

What technique did the Islamic culture perfect long before the Chinese?

Answer 63

luster pottery

Question 64

Shah Jahan commissioned this structure as a tomb for his favorite wife.

Answer 64

Taj mahal

Question 65

In a mosque, what form is used to mark the building's location and allow the faithful to be called to prayer?

Answer 65

Minaret

Question 66

In religious contexts, traditional Muslims disfavor ________________.

Answer 66

depicting the human form

Question 67

What is a Muslim theological school in which the history of Islam and the interpretation of the Qur'an are taught?

Answer 67

Madrasa

Question 68

The _______ is the niche in the wall of a mosque that points to Mecca.

Answer 68

Mihrab

Question 69

A high vaulted porch to mark an important building or entrance?

Answer 69

Iwan