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Which of the following cultures did not have a written language? |
Cycladic |
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True or false: the earliest surviving paintings are found in caves. |
TRUE |
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What style is the Church of Sainte-Foy at Conques? |
Romanesque |
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What is depicted on the Sumerian Standard of Ur? |
peace and war |
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What are the tall towers adjoining a mosque called? |
minarets |
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Who developed a canon of harmonious proportions to be used for the portrayal of the ideal human body in sculpture? |
Polykleitos |
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Which of these cultures was part of Mesopotamia? |
Assyrians |
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What did the Parthenon in Athens originally house? |
A large statue of Athena |
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What are the small pieces of glass that make up a mosaic called? |
tesserae |
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Metopes are a part of which architectural order? |
Doric |
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True or false: all Islamic manuscripts include a portrait of Allah. |
False |
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True or false: the Emperor Constantine recycled sculpture from earlier monuments to use on his triumphal arch. |
True |
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What period is the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna from? |
Byzantine |
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What is the medium used for the depiction of Theodora and Attendants in the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna? |
mosaic |
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Which two Gothic architectural innovations allowed cathedral walls to be built higher than before? |
flying buttresses and rib vaults |
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The Dome of the Rock belongs to which culture/period? |
islamic |
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What is the most common subject of Cycladic sculptures? |
female figures |
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What artifact made it possible to decipher hieroglyphics? |
the Rosetta Stone |
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Where have the earliest examples of Christian art been discovered? |
catacombs |
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True or false: the Egyptians took a haphazard approach to building the pyramids, suggesting that they did not have a strong understanding of math and geometry. |
False |
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What does the Great Stupa contain? |
The Buddha Remains |
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Match the site with the country in which it is located. Use each term once: |
Japan: Taian Teahouse China: Tomb of Qin Shi Huangdi Cambodia: Angkor Wat India: Great Stupa |
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True or false: the Taj Mahal was built by the Mughal Emperor Jahangir to celebrate the birth of his first son. |
False |
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Where were the terracotta warriors found? |
the tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi |
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True or false: a Chinese scroll is likely to comprise only illustrations and not include any writing. |
FALSE |
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True or false: the Japanese tea ceremony has its roots in Zen Buddhism. |
TRUE |
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Where did Buddhism originate? |
India |
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What are some of the oldest human-made objects found in the Americas? |
Clovis Points |
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What is the Raimondi Stela? |
A stone monument |
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Which term applies to indigenous art from South America? |
Andean |
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Why have Paracas textiles survived from ancient times? |
the climate in Peru is very dry |
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Why was gold important to the Moche culture? |
it was associated with the sun |
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What animal is represented in Incan art to celebrate its role in textile manufacture? |
llamas |
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What is Machu Picchu? |
Mountaintop city in Peru |
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Where is the Aztec Pyramid of the Sun located? |
Teotihuacan |
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True or false: the only people ever sacrificed by the Aztecs were prisoners of war. |
FALSE |
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Who built the cliff dwellings in the American Southwest? |
Anasazi |
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Which period in European art came first? |
Renaissance |
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Why does art from Africa and the Pacific Islands tend to look the same over long periods of time? |
maintains traditional methods |
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Artemisia Gentileschi was influenced by the style of which other artist? |
Caravaggio |
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A "deposition" scene shows which of the following |
Jesus’ body being taken down from the cross |
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Which Biblical figure was depicted frequently in Renaissance and Baroque sculpture? |
DAVID |
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Match the kente cloth color with its meaning. |
green: growth and good health red: strong political or spiritual feelings yellow: holy and precious gold: royalty, wealth, and spiritual purity |
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The Arnolfini Portrait is a part of which period in art? |
Northern Renaissance |
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Why did the Yoruba of western Nigeria create sculptures twin figures? |
To represent a twin that died at birth or infancy |
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What was innovative about Brunelleschi’s design for the dome of Florence cathedral? |
it was built without the need for wooden centering |
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What do the Moai of Easter Island represent? |
defied ancestors who were chiefs |
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What does linear perspective do? |
represent the illusion of three-dimensional space in two dimensions |
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What do cowrie shells represent in the arts of both Africa and the Pacific Islands? |
fertility |
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What is depicted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? |
scenes from Genesis |
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Which culture is known for making terra-cotta heads with prominent holes in the pupils, nostrils, mouth and ears? |
Nok |
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Which of the following design elements relate to Baroque art and architecture? |
Which of the following design elements relate to Baroque art and architecture? |
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True or false: abstract designs and patterns can convey information that is as important, recognizable, and specific as both representational and narrative imagery. |
TRUE |
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When are African masks most meaningful to the groups that made them? |
when they are worn in ceremonial performances |
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Which of the following influenced the art made from 1700 to 1865? |
Industrialization, The Age of Reason, revolutions in France and America |
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True or false: in the French Academy, individual portraits and landscapes were considered more valuable than any other subject matter. |
False |
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What was the primary subject matter of the the Hudson River School? |
American landscapes |
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In portrait photography of the 1860s, how long were exposure times? |
seconds |
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What is the subject of Eugene Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People? |
July Revolution of 1830 in France |
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True or false: Gustave Courbet’s Stonebreakers alarmed upper-class viewers because it reminded them of recent uprisings by the poor. |
TRUE |
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True or false: the ornate and fanciful style called Rococo was only fashionable in France. |
FALSE |
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What is Jacques-Louis David’s painting The Oath of the Horatii about? |
duty and self-sacrifice |
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Which statement about artist William Blake is accurate? |
He believed in personal and creative freedom, rebelled against the teachings of the Royal Academy and did not accept Christian values |
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True or false: Goya painted an unflattering portrait of the Spanish royal family because he disliked them and wanted to insult the king. |
FALSE |
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What does Fragonard’s The Swing depict? |
Flirtation between two young aristocratic lovers |
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Artists in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were inspired by works from which period in history? |
The middle ages |
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What is William Hogarth’s series Marriage a la Mode about? |
an arranged marriage in which the couple behave immorally |
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What inspired Joseph Mallord William Turner to paint Slave Ship? |
a real-life incident |
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Why did North American cities in the late eighteenth century choose neoclassicism as their architectural style? |
it represented ideals to which they aspired |
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Who was called the Sun King? |
Louis XV |
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Which was the biggest influence on Henry Ossawa Tanner? |
Gustave Courbet |
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Who built Monticello? |
Thomas Jefferson |
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Who visited Salons, such as the one depicted in Pietro Martini’s print of 1785? |
public, painters, and critics |
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In addition to being inspired by ancient Greece and Rome, what did Neoclassical paintings, such as those by Jacques-Louis David and Angelica Kaufmann, try to accomplish? |
a convey a moral message |
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What role did photography play for the artist Thomas Eakins? |
he used photography to study anatomy and proportion |
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True or false: Roy Lichtenstein challenged traditional notions of the subject matter and appearance of fine art painting by embracing everyday subjects. |
TRUE |
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Vincent van Gogh used thick application of paint in his work Starry Night. What is this technique called? |
IMPASTO |
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What formal element did Mark Rothko focus on? |
COLOR |
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Why was the Eiffel Tower built? |
to welcome visitors to a World’s Fair |
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Which of the following approaches is characterized by artworks that have aggressive lines, rough textures, and personal narrative? |
neo-expressionism |
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Alexandre Cabanel’s Birth of Venus is an example of which type of painting |
ACADEMIC |
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What does conceptual art emphasize? |
THE IDEAS BEHIND THE ARTWORK |
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Which artist repeatedly painted studies of the mountain he had seen throughout his childhood and later observed from his studio window? |
Paul Cezanne |
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Art objects from which place influenced Picasso in his creation of Demoiselles d’Avignon? |
Africa |
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A painting by which artist provoked the comment by a critic that gave the Impressionists their name? |
Claude Monet |
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Which statement is true about Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Moulin de la Galette? |
It depicts the new urban middle class |
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True or false: Edgar Degas was fascinated by observing ballet dancers, both in practice and during performance. |
TRUE |
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What aspect of Edouard Manet’s Le Dejeuner sur l’Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) made viewers uncomfortable when it was first exhibited? |
the nude woman seated next to fully dressed me, the sketchy painting technique, the way the woman looks out at the viewer |
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True or false: Camille Claudel’s sculpture The Waltz received some criticism for being too erotic. |
TRUE |
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True or false: twentieth-century artists continued the exploration in representation started by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. |
true |
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Who painted Paris Street: Rainy Day? |
Gustave Caillebotte |
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True or false: Paul Gauguin liked to paint subjects from modern, industrial cities. |
FALSE |
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Georges Braque’s Houses at L’Estaque is part of which movement? |
cubism |
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How did Jackson Pollock make his paintings? |
He dripped paint onto a canvas on the floor |
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What does Rineke Dijkstra’s series Mothers focus on? |
depicting mothers with their newborn children |
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Who is the artist of Dead Christ? |
Mantegna |
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Bis pole sculptures were made by which culture? |
Asmat |
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What does the term "vanitas" in art reference? |
the fleeting nature of life |
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What is Shiva Nataraja responsible for doing? |
dancing the world into existence, balancing contradictory qualities, for example creation and destruction, bringing to life the endless cycle of birth and rebirth |
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True or false: artists have often been influenced by scientific discoveries. |
TRUE |
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True or false: astrolabes were used by Muslims to determine the direction of Mecca. |
TRUE |
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Which of these artworks reveals a culture’s understanding of astronomy? |
The Maya flint depicting a crocodile canoe with passengers, The Aztec Sun Stone, Muhammad Mahdi al-Yazdi’s astrolabe |
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True or false: because restorers accidentally removed the original varnish, the Sistine Chapel ceiling looks brighter than it was in Michelangelo’s time. |
False |
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Which of these terms applies to Georges Seurat’s Sunday on La Grande Jatte? |
pointillism |
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True or false: "Trompe l’oeil" means "fool the eye." |
TRUE |
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Who advised artists in his treatise On Painting that paintings should look like illusionary windows? |
Leon Battista Alberti |
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Which statement is true of the oculus in the Camera degli Sposi in the Ducal Palace in Mantua, painted by Andrea Mantegna? |
It is just a painted illusion |
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True or false: William Hogarth’s False Perspective demonstrates incorrect applications of the laws of perspective. |
true |
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What is it called when columns are intentionally designed to swell at the midpoint? |
entasis |
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What elements have an ambiguous reflection in Edouard Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergere? |
the barmaid, liquor and wine bottles, the bar top |
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True or false: the term "iconic" refers to something that has become famous and has widely recognizable characteristics. |
TRUE |
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True or false: Mayan bloodletting rituals were only enacted on slaves. |
false |
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What technique was used to create the portrait of King Akhenaten, his wife Nefertiti, and their three daughters? |
a sunken-relief carving |
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Which statement is true of the Stela of Hammurabi? |
it has an entire law code written on it |
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What is the medium of Henry Moore’s Recumbent Figure? |
stone |
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What does Theodore Gericault’s painting Raft of the Medusa depict? |
the results of a shipwreck off the coast of West Africa |
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Which of these artists created a war artwork that was an interactive performance? |
Wafer Bilal |
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When and where was the artist of Olympia working? |
19th Century France |
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Which artwork did Carrie Mae Weems make? |
You Became A Scientific Profile |
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Why did Mary Richardson attack the Rokeby Venus in 1914? |
she wanted more rights for women |
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What medium is Kahinde Wiley’s Portrait Bust of Cardinal Richelieu? |
painting |
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What does Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe convey? |
he agitation of the artist’s internal reality through his painting |
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What kind of artworks do the Guerilla Girls make? |
feminist posters and pamphlets |
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What is the subject matter of Myron’s Discus Thrower? |
A Greek Athlete |
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Menkaure and His Wife, Queen Khamerernebty was made by sculptors from which culture? |
Egyptian |
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What does Francisco Goya’s Second of May, 1808 depict? |
Spanish civilians attacking French soldiers |
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What movement influenced the Untitled Film Stills series? |
Feminism |
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Timothy O’Sullivan’s famous photograph of dead bodies on a deserted battlefield was taken during which war? |
American Civil War |
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Auguste Rodin made which of the following artworks? |
Walking Man |
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What does the layout of The Dinner Party allude to? |
the Last Supper, a coven of witches, an ancient sign for woman |
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True or false: Emil Nolde’s Crucifixion was admired by Adolf Hitler. |
FALSE |
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Why were some against Maya Lin’s design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial? |
it was black stone, it wasn’t a traditional monument with figures, it descended into the ground |
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What happened to the woman featured in Migrant Mother after Dorothea Lange photographed her? |
she was ashamed of the photograph |
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What element is part of the 9/11 Memorial in New York City? |
water |
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