4th Sixth Weeks

Question 0

Technique used in building the Ise Shrine which the wallboards were slipped into slots in the pillars

Answer 0

Mortise and tenon

Question 1

A spiritual being or deity

Answer 1

Kami

Question 2

The beam at the crest of the roofs

Answer 2

Ridge pole

Question 3

Pre-Buddhist beliefs that developed in the Yayoi period

Answer 3

Shinto

Question 4

Amidst

Answer 4

The Buddha of immeasurable light and infinite

Life ruler of the western pure land

Question 5

Buddha triad

Answer 5

Buddha flanked by 2 bodhisattvas

Question 6

Mandorla

Answer 6

A lotus-petal shaped nimbus

Question 7

Pictures alternated with text

Answer 7

Hand scroll

Question 8

Japan’s most admired literary classic written around 1000 by murasaki shikubu. Heian court culture

Answer 8

Take of Genji

Question 9

Torrii busshi

Answer 9

Sculptor who was a descendant of a Chinese immigrant and sculptures a Buddha triad

Question 10

Native style paintings of Japan bright mineral pigments, lack of emphasis on strong brushwork, general flatness

Answer 10

Yamato-e

Question 11

What was the main art form of the jomon culture?

Answer 11

Cord markings, technique that the Jomon culture used to decorate earthenware vessels

Question 12

How do Jomon vessels differ from the Neolithic Chinese examples?

Answer 12

Japanese vessels are extremely thick and heavy

The harder thinner and lighter Neolithic Chinese earthenware emphasizes basic ceramic form and painted decoration

Question 13

Name the two cultures that had the strongest influence on the developed of Japanese art

Answer 13

Jomon period

Yayoi & Kofun periods

Question 14

What was the purpose of the greatest turmoil that were built during the juan period?

Answer 14

Recall earlier Jomon practices of placing the dead on sacred mountains

Question 15

How did Janie’s relate to the structures burial practice at Japanese tumuli included

Answer 15

the placement of unglazed ceramic sculptures “haniwa” on and around the pit grave mounds

Question 16

Name the largest/most important Shinto shrine in Japan

Answer 16

Ise shrine (kofun period)

Question 17

Acroterion

Answer 17

blocks or flat pedestals resting on the apex and on the lowest ends of the pediment to support statues or carved ornaments.

Question 18

fibula

Answer 18

clasp or safety pin used to fasten a woman’s gown at the shoulder

Question 19

Granulation

Answer 19

the fusing of tiny metal balls, orglanules, to a metal surface

Question 20

necropolis

Answer 20

arranged in an orderly manner along a network of streets, producing an effect veritable of the dead

Question 21

Tumulus

Answer 21

form of a mound(plural “tumuli”)

Question 22

Name four important Etruscan settlements.

Answer 22

a. Tuscany was the region centered on Florence(birthplace of Renaissance)
b. They controlled cities such as Turauinia, erveteri, vuivi and veii.
c. Etruria was the territory occupied by the Edtruscans.
d. They rely on religious beliefs and practices

Question 23

List four architectural characteristics of Etruscan temples

Answer 23

a. Columns made of wood
b. Columns were more widely spaced
c. Narrative statuary in terra costa
d. temples had 3 cells

Question 24

List four architectural characteristics of Greek temples

Answer 24

a. front of Greek temples indistinguishable
b. Columns placed on all sides
c. stone on peaks of temple roofs
d. sculptural mass from the outside and all directions

Question 25

List three stylistic characteristics of the Apula from Veii that distinguish it as Etruscan

Answer 25

1. energy & excitement
2. bright paint & rippling folds
3. huge swelling contours, plunging motion, gesticulation arms, fanlike calf muscles & animated face

Question 26

Where was it originally placed?

Answer 26

temple in the portonaccio sanctuary in Veii

Question 27

arcuated gateway

Answer 27

arch-shaped gateways

Question 28

Chimera

Answer 28

a monster of Greek invention with a lion’s bead, a body, and a serpant’s tail. Goat’s head on the left side of the lion

Question 29

Cista

Answer 29

Cylindrical container made of sheet bronze with cast handles & feet- used for women’s toilet articles

Question 30

Voussoir

Answer 30

Trapezoidal stone- used in early Greece & Mesopotamia

Question 31

Why is the Etruscan Capitoline Wolf so famous?

Answer 31

One of the most memorable portrayals of an animal in the history of world art

Question 32

Describe thee medium and technique used for decorating The Ficoroni Cist

Answer 32

Bronze with cast handles & feet and elaborately engraved bodies

Question 33

How might the subject on the reliefs relate to the political situation of the Etruscans in the 2nd BCE?

Answer 33

The Etruscans enjoyed its greatest prosperity it was the leading production center was Tarquina & that is where the sarcophagus of Lars Pulena was fashioned early in the second century BCE