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16 Cards in this Set
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A long, horizontal strip of painting along a wall is known as ___
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A frieze
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As indicated by the "Boxing Children", what characteristic did Theran art share with Egyptian art?
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Frontal eyes on profile faces
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The reliefs on the two gold cups found in a royal grave at Vapheio were both made using which technique, in which an artist hammers out the scene from inside the cup?
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Repoussé
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In both Mycenaean and MInoan cultures, temples seem to have been located only
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In palaces
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What was megaron?
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The central structure of a palace in which Mycenaean kings or queens presided
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Although the identity of the man it commemorates cannot be known for sure, the famous gold work mask found in a Mycenaean grave is generally referred to as the Mask of ____?
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Agamemnon
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Statues of what type of animal crowned the entrance to the Mycenaean citadel?
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Lions
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Corbelling is used to make what type of architectural feature?
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An arch
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The typical characteristics of Kamares ware include ___
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Curvilinear designs that follow the form of the vessel
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In Minoan culture, snakes most likely represented ___
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Fertility
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Minoan paintings differed from Egyptian ones most notably in that
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Minoan figures were more curvilinear than Egyptian ones.
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The palace at Knossos exhibits all of the following features EXCEPT ___
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High, vaulting ceilings
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The "Toreador Fresco" is also known as ___
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The "Leaping Bull Fresco"
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Minoan civilizations made use of jars made from which material, the literal name of which is "cooked earth"
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Terra-cotta
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Minoan civilization is primarily associated with which island?
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Crete
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Early Bronze Age Cycladic marble figures generally represented ___
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Women
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