History

Question 1

Stone Age

Answer 1

Stone Age (30,000 b.c.–2500 b.c.) Cave painting, fertility goddesses, megalithic structures. Lascaux Cave Painting, Woman of Willendorf, Stonehenge.

Question 2

Mesopotamian

Answer 2

(3500 b.c.–539 b.c.) Warrior art and narration in stone relief Standard of Ur, Gate of Ishtar, Stele of Hammurabi’s Code

Question 3

Egyptian

Answer 3

(3100 B.C-30 BC) Art with an afterlife focus: pyramids and tomb painting Imhotep, Step Pyramid, Great Pyramids, Bust of Nefertiti

Question 4

Greek and Hellenistic (850 b.c.–31 b.c.)

Answer 4

Greek idealism: balance, perfect proportions; architectural

orders(Doric, Ionic, Corinthian) Parthenon, Myron, Phidias, Polykleit

Question 5

Roman (500 b.c.– a.d. 476)

Answer 5

Roman realism: practical and down to earth; the arch Augustus of Primaporta, Colosseum, Trajan’s Column,

Question 6

Indian, Chinese, and Japanese(653 b.c.–a.d. 1900)

Answer 6

Serene, meditative art, and Arts of the Floating World Gu Kaizhi, Li Cheng, Guo Xi, Hokusai, Hiroshige

Question 7

Byzantine and Islamic (a.d. 476–a.d.1453)

Answer 7

Heavenly Byzantine mosaics; Islamic architecture and amazing
maze-like design Hagia Sophia, Andrei Rublev, Mosque of Córdoba, the
Alha

Question 8

Middle Ages (500–1400)

Answer 8

Celtic art, Carolingian Renaissance, Romanesque, Gothic St. Sernin, Durham Cathedral, Notre Dame, Chartres, Cimabue,

Question 9

Early and High Renaissance (1400–1550)

Answer 9

Rebirth of classical culture Ghiberti’s Doors, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Botticelli,

Question 10

Venetian and Northern Renaissance (1430–1550)

Answer 10

The Renaissance spreads north- ward to France, the Low

Countries, Poland, Germany, and England Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Dürer, Bruegel, Bosch, Jan van

Question 11

Mannerism (1527–1580)

Answer 11

Art that breaks the rules; artifice over nature Tintoretto, El Greco, Pontormo, Bronzino, Cellini

Question 12

Romanticism (1780–1850)

Answer 12

The triumph of imagination and individuality Caspar Friedrich, Gericault, Delacroix, Turner, Benjamin West

Question 13

Realism (1848–1900)

Answer 13

Celebrating working class and peasants; en plein air
rustic painting	Corot, Courbet, Daumier, Millet

Question 14

Impressionism (1865–1885)

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Capturing fleeting effects of natural light Monet, Manet, Renoir, Pissarro, Cassatt, Morisot, Degas

Question 15

Cubism, Futurism, Supremativism, Constructivism, De Stijl

1905–1920

Answer 15

Pre– and Post–World War 1 art experiments: new

forms to express modern life Picasso, Braque, Leger, Boccioni, Severini, Malevich

Question 16

Dada and Surrealism (1917–1950)

Answer 16

Ridiculous art; painting dreams and exploring the

unconscious Duchamp, Dalí, Ernst, Magritte, de

Question 17

Abstract Expressionism (1940s–1950s) and Pop Art
(1960s)

Answer 17

Post–World War II: pure abstraction and expression

without form; popular art absorbs consumerism Gorky, Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko, Warhol, Lichtenstein

Question 18

Postmodernism and Deconstructivism (1970– )

Answer 18

Art without a center and reworking and mixing past styles Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, Anselm Kiefer, Frank Gehry,