Quiz 1

Front 1

“Old stone age”, period of nomadic, hunters and gatherers of the ice age.

Back 1

Paleolithic

Front 2

Sculpture that can be viewed from all sides, a.k.a “freestanding “

Back 2

Sculpture-in-the-round

Front 3

Carved sculpture that projects from the material surface.

Back 3

Relief

Front 4

Sharp, pointed tool used for carving fine lines.

Back 4

Burin

Front 5

Natural, earthen pigment.

Back 5

Ocher

Front 6

A painting on a wall

Back 6

Mural

Front 7

“New stone age”, period of settlement building, agriculture, and animal husbandry

Back 7

Neolithic

Front 8

Large stone

Back 8

Megalith

Front 9

Horizontal supports and cross beams, usually to span an entry or hall

Back 9

Post-and-lintel

Front 10

A black, naturally occurring, tar-like substance

Back 10

Bitumen

Front 11

Depicted in a manner that is flat, linear, and patterned

Back 11

Stylized

Front 12

Visual evidence or style that an artist has observed nature and incorporated those observations into an artwork

Back 12

Naturalism

Front 13

“Low” relief, when the carved image projects only very slight from the material surface.

Back 13

Bas-relief

Front 14

A conceptual view of a figure that combines frontal and side views

Back 14

Composite profile

Front 15

a. k. a. “Register”, a horizontal band of narrative imagery or decorative pattern.

Back 15

Frieze

Front 16

“Lost wax” method, a hollow casting method employed a clay model, layer of wax, and outer mold.

Back 16

Cire-perdue

Front 17

“Mountain”, a temple platform

Back 17

Ziggurat

Front 18

Glazed earthenware with a lustrous, glasslike, opaque surface in a variety of colors

Back 18

Faience

Front 19

A large, hypostyle hall

Back 19

Apadana

Front 20

A hard stone, usually dark gray or green in color

Back 20

Diorite

Front 21

The wedge-shaped alphabet invented by the Sumerians

Back 21

Cuneiform

Front 22

Early Egyptian tomb made of mud brick or stone with a flat top and four battered sides

Back 22

Mastaba

Front 23

The monumental gateway into the forecourt of a temple comprised of battered walls and tower-like molding with a central entrance

Back 23

Pylon temple

Front 24

A column, freestanding or engaged, shaped as a man, the male form of a caryatid

Back 24

Atlantid

Front 25

Mural painting on dry plaster

Back 25

Fresco secco

Front 26

A column that is affixed to a wall, usually for aesthetic reasons rather than as a support

Back 26

Engaged column

Front 27

A system or set of rules for depicting pleasing relationships among the parts of the body or architectural structures

Back 27

Canon of proportions

Front 28

Organized in such away that a mirror image is produced along a central, usually longitudinal or vertical, axis

Back 28

Bilaterally symmetrical

Front 29

Passageway or meeting hall comprised of columns that support a flat roof usually made of stone

Back 29

Hypostyle

Front 30

A metalwork process that produces a raised image by hammering the design from the backside, an artwork produced by the repoussé process

Back 30

Repouseé

Front 31

Mural painting on wet plaster

Back 31

Buon fresco

Front 32

Usually “string - -“ or “stone - -“ , a horizontal band of masonry

Back 32

Course

Front 33

A curved span comprised of cantilevered courses that rise to a point, a triangular arch

Back 33

Corbeled arch

Front 34

A beehive shaped tomb in the Ancient Aegean, a round temple in Ancient Greece and Rome

Back 34

Tholos

Front 35

Rough hewn stones of enormous size

Back 35

Cyclopean masonry

Front 36

The main, inner sanctuary of a temple

Back 36

Cella

Front 37

The large hall of an Aegean palace, usually with a central hearth framed by four columns that support the roof

Back 37

Megaron