Exam One - Part Three

Question 1

What is trompe l’oeil?

Answer 1

Trick of the eye. A two dimensional artwork designed to make the viewer believe it is three dimensional.

Question 2

What is a painting in fresco?

Answer 2

A painting on wet plaster that becomes a permanent part of the wall surface.

Question 3

What is the Julian calendar?

Answer 3

A calendar introduced my Julius Caesar in which the year contained 365 days and every four years 366.

Question 4

What is jurisprudence?

Answer 4

The most influential concept invented by the Romans. The technique for deciding how general laws could be applied to specific cases

Question 5

Characteristics of the roman Architecture?

Answer 5

Roman architecture was similar to the Greek architecture. Very sound, made of concrete

Question 6

Characteristics of the Pantheon?

Answer 6

Forms a perfect sphere, roman, has an oculus, made of concrete

Question 7

What is the Decalogue?

Answer 7

The Ten Commandments.

Question 8

Characteristics of the roman coliseum?

Answer 8

Engaged columns, stage, wooden floor, fights, trap doors, held musical entertainment.

Question 9

What is a cella?

Answer 9

Wide enclosed main space in roman architecture.

Question 10

What is tetrarchy?

Answer 10

Empire ruled by four.

Question 11

Who was Diocletian?

Answer 11

Roman emperor that insisted on Divine status. Created tetrarchy and banned Christianity.

Question 12

What are martyrs?

Answer 12

People who would die for faith.

Question 13

Who was Constantine?

Answer 13

The great, established two separate capitals, separated civil and military government, legalized Christianity, converted to Christianity, established Constantinople.

Question 14

What is monotheism?

Answer 14

Believing in only one God.

Question 15

What is polytheism?

Answer 15

Believing in multiple gods.

Question 16

Characteristics of judaism?

Answer 16

Monotheistic, it is a culture as well as a religion, covenants with God, waiting for a messiah.

Question 17

Who is David?

Answer 17

King of ancient Israel appointed because Saul was deemed a failure.

Question 18

Who was Jesus and Christianity?

Answer 18

You know this.

Question 19

Who was Islam founded by?

Answer 19

Mohammed.

Question 20

Where did the early Christians worship?

Answer 20

In catacombs or secrecy.

Question 21

What is a mosaic?

Answer 21

A decorative work for walls, vaults, floors, or ceilings, composed of pieces of colored material set in plaster or cement.

Question 22

Why is hajj?

Answer 22

A Muslims scared pilgrimage to Mecca.

Question 23

What is an iconoclast?

Answer 23

A person who did not believe in worshiping idols.

Question 24

What happens to Constantinople?

Answer 24

Slaughter of innocent by crusaders. Named Istanbul.

Question 25

What are the divisions of the Muslim faith?

Answer 25

Sunni Muslims, Shiite Muslims, Sufi muslims,

Question 26

Division of Christian Faith?

Answer 26

Idk.

Question 27

What is the kritios boy?

Answer 27

Ancient Greek sculpture of a boy with missing legs and arms.

Question 28

What is the chi rho?

Answer 28

The monogram of x and p the first two letters of Greek khristos. A Christian symbol.

Question 29

Characteristics of the temple of Athena Nike?

Answer 29

Greek, earliest fully ionic temple. Square shaped.

Question 30

Characteristics of the temple of Olympian Zeus?

Answer 30

Almost all gone, Corinthian columns, only the front is left.

Question 31

What is a hydraulos?

Answer 31

Roman water organ.

Question 32

Characteristics of the lance bearer?

Answer 32

A man who looks like he’s holding a lance but there’s nothing in his hand.

Question 33

Characteristics of Haggia Sophia?

Answer 33

Big Islamic building intended for Christian worship.

Question 34

Characteristics of the some of the rock?

Answer 34

Islamic building with a giant gold dome.

Question 35

The fates?

Answer 35

Relief sculpture of stuff.

Question 36

Laocoon and his two sons?

Answer 36

Guy in the middle with two little ones on the end, being attacked by snakes.

Question 37

What are sarcophagi?

Answer 37

Stone coffins, a notable type of roman sculpture.