Classical and Byzantine

Question 1

What are the dates of the Hellinistic Period?

Answer 1

323-31BC

Question 2

What are the dates of the Byzantine Empire?

Answer 2

330-1453AD

Question 3

What were the dates of the First Byzantine iconoclasm?

Answer 3

726-787AD

Question 4

When were the dates of the Second Byzantine iconoclasm?

Answer 4

814-842AD

Question 5

When was the Parthenon built?

Answer 5

447-432BC

Question 6

Plural of Kouros

Answer 6

Kouroi

Question 7

Plural of Kore

Answer 7

Korai

Question 8

Metope

Answer 8

Between two triglyphs

Question 9

What was first, Black figure painting or Red?

Answer 9

Black

Question 10

What dates are black figure painted pots generally?

Answer 10

Pre-530BC

Question 11

What dates are red figure painted pots generally?

Answer 11

Post-530BC

Question 12

Name of a pot with one side red figure painting, other side black

Answer 12

Bilingual

Question 13

What is a Kylix?

Answer 13

A drinking bowl

Question 14

What was the name of the event where scholars met to drink and discuss philosophy?

Answer 14

Symposium

Question 15

What gender were most of the consumers of Greek pots?

Answer 15

Male

Question 16

Name of a Greek prostitute present at a symposium

Answer 16

Hetaira

Question 17

Name of the Laocoön discoverer

Answer 17

Guiliano da Sangillo

Question 18

Artists of the Laocoön

Answer 18

Hegesandros, Polydoros, Athenodores

Question 19

Year Laocoön is thought to have been made

Answer 19

AD79

Question 20

What style of statues were from Pergamon?

Answer 20

Hellinistic

Question 21

Where was the Laocoön found?

Answer 21

Rome

Question 22

What period of Antiquity did ancient Roman art look to?

Answer 22

Hellenism

Question 23

When did Christ begin to be depicted in Roman art?

Answer 23

4th century

Question 24

Where was hailed as the first wholly Christian country?

Answer 24

Constantinople

Question 25

When was Dura Europos built?

Answer 25

Middle of AD3rd century

Question 26

Why was there no need for naturalism in early Christian art?

Answer 26

It would distract the congregation’s attention

Question 27

When was the arch of Constantine built?

Answer 27

312-315AD

Question 28

What are the dates of the classical period?

Answer 28

479-323BC

Question 29

Was the Roman Empire monotheistic of polytheistic?

Answer 29

Polytheistic

Question 30

What nationality were the Byzantines?

Answer 30

Greeks, but they called themselves Roman

Question 31

When was the last pagan church closed, signifying the rise of Christianity?

Answer 31

6th century

Question 32

Where is Hagia Sophia?

Answer 32

Constantinople

Question 33

When was Hagia Sophia built?

Answer 33

Sixth century AD

Question 34

Why didn’t Western viewers like Hagia Sophia?

Answer 34

Broke Classical

Question 35

When was the San Vitale built?

Answer 35

526-547

Question 36

What shape is the San Vitale?

Answer 36

Octagonal

Question 37

What was the subject of the mosaics in San Vitale?

Answer 37

Mosaics give vision of viewer’s place in the universe and history

Question 38

When was Sant’ Apollinare built?

Answer 38

549

Question 39

How are the apostles represented in Sant’ Apollinare?

Answer 39

Sheep

Question 40

How did the Byzantine style avoid problems of iconography

Answer 40

Simplified styles avoided realistic representation