Art Appreciation Test 2

Front 1

What important invention separates the prehistoric period from historic times?

Back 1

writing

Front 2

Name and briefly describe three methods for deducing the likely age of an object.

Back 2

radio carbon dating- used only once living tissues (Carbon 14 half-life)
stratigraphy- layers, distance and known rates of depostion
dendrochronolgy- tree ring dating, english record goes back 5,000 years

Front 3

T/F. Woman of Willendorf is named for the family of the artist that created it.

Back 3

False

Front 4

According to the currently accepted view, humanity is about ____ million years old.

Back 4

2

Front 5

The two major divisions of prehistoric man are the Paleolithic period and the Neolithic period. Give the approximant dates for the two periods:

Back 5

a. Paleolithic from 100,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE
b. Neolithic from 10,000 BCE to 3,000 BCE

Front 6

It is commonly believed that the last Ice Age ended around ________ years ago.

Back 6

10,000

Front 7

Paleolithic objects tend to be ________ while Neolithic objects tend toward the ________.

Back 7

naturalistic; geometric

Front 8

T/F. Is has been established that Woman of Willendorf is a Paleolithic image of the Creator.

Back 8

False

Front 9

Paleolithic cave paintings in southern Europe are approximately __________ years old.

Back 9

25,000

Front 10

The two inventions that separate the Neolithic from the Paleolithic periods are:

Back 10

agriculture and herding

Front 11

Name and locate the four river valleys where civilization is thought to have begun:

Back 11

1. Nile River Valley in Egypt
2. Tigris Euphrates in Iraq
3. Indus River Valley in Pakistan
4. Yellow River Valley in China

Front 12

The term Mesopotamia means literally "_________".

Back 12

between the rivers

Front 13

The Epic of Gilgamesh is major work of _________ literature

Back 13

Sumarian

Front 14

The ancient city of Ur is thought to have been the birthplace of ________.

Back 14

Abraham

Front 15

The Sumerian Cade of Ur-Nammu is an earlier version of the more famous written legal system known as the code of ___________.

Back 15

Hammurabi

Front 16

The term ________ means an upright stone set as a memorial or marker.

Back 16

stele

Front 17

The main form of Mesopotamian temple architecture was the __________.

Back 17

ziggurat

Front 18

Give the approximate dates for the three major periods of Egyptian history:

Back 18

a. Old Kingdom 2,900- 2,300 BCE
b. Middle Kingdom 2,200-1,600 BCE
c. New Kingdom 1,400-1,000 BCE

Front 19

Egyptian pyramids are essentially elaborate ______.

Back 19

graves

Front 20

One overriding concern of Egyptian artists was building for _________.

Back 20

eternity

Front 21

When the size of human figures in an artwork is determined by social rank, this is known as __________ scaling.

Back 21

hieratic

Front 22

In hieroglyphics, proper names are circled, and this is known as _______________.

Back 22

cartouche'

Front 23

The New Kingdom Pharaoh Akhnaten instituted an unusual period of Egyptian culture known as the ________ revolution.

Back 23

amarna

Front 24

The Hippopotamus is revered by the Egyptians as Mut, god of Chaos. State one reason why this might be so.

Back 24

the hippos are eating the rice.

Front 25

The main reason why we know so much about Egyptian history is because of the discovery of the ____________

Back 25

Rosetta Stone

Front 26

The Rosetta Stone was discovered by ___________'s troops when they occupied Egypt in the early 19th century.

Back 26

Napoleon

Front 27

North American tribes are commonly separated into four main groups:

Back 27

1. Eastern Woodlands
2. Plains
3. Pacific Northwest
4. Southwest

Front 28

The earliest know civilization in Central America was know as the ______

Back 28

Olmec

Front 29

T/F. The Maya culture developed a calendar that was accurate to one day in 6,000 years

Back 29

True

Front 30

Put the Mesoamerican civilizations in chronological order and link them with their emblematic city:

Back 30

Olmec-Teotihuacan
Maya-Chichen Itza
Aztec-Tenochtitlan
Inca-Machu Picchu

Front 31

One of the main reasons Cortez was able to subdue Montezuma at Mexico City with a small band of men was that ___________ had decimated the native population.

Back 31

small pox

Front 32

T/F. Greek art began with Egyptian idea and standards.

Back 32

True

Front 33

Give the approximate dates for the three main periods of Greek history.

Back 33

Archaic 700-450 BCE
Classical 450-400 BCE
Hellenistic 400-100 BCE

Front 34

Although Greek sculptors are most will-known today, Grook painters were most celebrated during the Greek period. State one reason why this might be so.

Back 34

because their works have been destroyed over time.

Front 35

Briefly describe the two Epic poems of Homer

Back 35

Illiad: The Battle of Troy
Odyssey: Journey back home from Troy.

Front 36

The condition in which the knees, hips, and shoulders of a sculpture or figure are poised at different angles is known as __________.

Back 36

contrapposto

Front 37

Greek classical art emphasizes what two character traits?

Back 37

reason and virtue

Front 38

A system which governs the ideal proportions of an artwork is known as a _______.

Back 38

canon

Front 39

The Parthenon is named after Athena ___________, meaning ____.

Back 39

Parthenas; virgin

Front 40

If all the columns of the Parthenon were extended upward, they would meet a point about a _________ above the structure.

Back 40

mile

Front 41

Name three things Western Culture has taken almost directly from Roman Civilization.

Back 41

1. calendar
2. festival
3. law

Front 42

In Rome, the temple dedicated to all the gods was called the __________.

Back 42

Pantheon

Front 43

The main form of Roman Temple Architecture was the _________.

Back 43

Basilica

Front 44

One reason Constantine converted to Christianity was because he had a dream in which God promised he would be victorious in battle if he fought under the symbol now called the _______.

Back 44

Chi-Rho

Front 45

Christian architecture in the Eastern Roman Empire followed the ________ while Christian architecture in the Western Roman Empire followed the ________.

Back 45

dome; basilica

Front 46

"Pantocrator" is defined as ___________.

Back 46

ruler of all

Front 47

The most famous Byzantine Emperor was ______ and his greatest achievement was the erection of the _________ ________. In the city of ____________. It is now a _________ in the ciry of ____________.

Back 47

Justinian; Hagia; Sophia; Constantinople; mosque; Istanbul

Front 48

The Roman Empire fell around ________. While most of Europe fell into cultural chaos, __________ became the major European center of leaning.

Back 48

476 CE; Ireland

Front 49

St. Jerome translated the Bible into Latin. This translation was called the __________ because Latin was the language of hte common people. The original texts of the bible were written mainly in ___________ and __________

Back 49

Vulgate; Hebrew; Greek

Front 50

Carolus Magnus, better known as ____________, displaced the ______________- as the leader of the Franks.

Back 50

Charlemange; Marovingians

Front 51

One term to describe the period from 400 CE to 1400 CE is the "Age of _______."

Back 51

Faith

Front 52

The upward reach of the Gothic cathedral was intended to symbolize the triumph of spirit over the ________ _________

Back 52

material world

Front 53

The two main innovations that allowed Gothic cathedral walls to soar were the:

Back 53

a. pointed arch
b. flying buttress

Front 54

The term "Renaissance" means "rebirth". What exactly has been reborn?

Back 54

classical culture

Front 55

One distinguishing factor between the naked and the nude is thought to be ________.

Back 55

dignity

Front 56

______________ was convinced by the Christian mystic Savanorola to destroy his "pagan" works.

Back 56

Botticelli

Front 57

The three major artists of the high Renaissance:

Back 57

a. DaVinci-painter
b. Michelangelo-sculpture
c. Bramente-architect

Front 58

The smoky effect of blurred edges in DaVinci's paintings is called ___________.

Back 58

chiaroscuro

Front 59

By placing Christ at the vanishing point in the center of hte last supper, DaVinci associates Him with ____________.

Back 59

infinity/God.

Front 60

Raphael is believed to have integrated the technique and feeling of two major Renaissance artists:

Back 60

Davinci and Michelangelo

Front 61

One major project of the Renaissance was to reconcile __________ with the ideals of Greece and Rome

Back 61

Christianity

Front 62

Oil painting was discovered in the early 1400s by the __________ Brothers

Back 62

VanEyck.

Front 63

T/F. The Maya temples were used for human sacrifice.

Back 63

True

Front 64

Naturalistic Roman portraits can be interpreted as a growing respect for the __________.

Back 64

individual

Front 65

Romans did not invent it, but they used it extensively in the architecture.

Back 65

concrete

Front 66

one way to recognize Northern Renaissance works is by the impressive level of ___________.

Back 66

detail