First Semester Exam Flashcards
Ancient paintings have been discovered in several locations which include;
Chauvet, France;
Lascaux, France; and Altamira, Spain.
The Willendorf Venus was discovered in what counrty?
Austria
The term ________ refers to one of the “big stones” used in the construction of a site such as ___________.
megalith; Stonehenge
The term _________ refers to the category of megalithic structures that includes Stonehenge.
cromlech
____, the god of the moon was the considered the resident god at Ur.
Sin
What army is credited with capturing Jerusalem, destroying its temples, and deporting many of the Hebrews?
The Babylonian army
________, the ancient Egyptian leader, ruled circa 3,000 B.C.E. and is credited with unifying both Upper and Lower Egypt.
Narmer
The new style of art that was developed during the rule of Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten was known as the ______ style.
Amarna
A ________ and ________ is found on the jade disc known as Pi.
dragon; phoenix
Common among the people of Thera were;
elaborately decorated homes, clay pipes which connected the toilets and bathes to sewers, and straw which was used to reinforce the walls of their homes.
The _____ was the creature which was associated with male virility and strength by the inhabitants of _____.
bull; Crete
________, the legendary Minoan queen is credited with giving birth to the Minotaur.
Pasiphae
Penelope was the wife of who?
Odysseus
The term _________ is translated to mean “top of the city”, and refers to the portion of an ancient Greek city-state that functioned as its religious center.
Acropolis
The agora refers to the portion of an ancient Greek city-state that served as…
public meeting place, marketplace, and civic center.
The ______ is the columns swell about one-third of the way up and contract again near the top.
entasis
The term demes are a part of the Athenian political system and refer to small local areas comparable to ________ or _____.
precincts; wards
The illustrations in the metopes on the four sides of the Parthenon depicts battles between the Greeks and four enemies;
the Trojans, giants, Amazons, and centaurs.
Who was among those who stabbed Gaius Julius Caesar on the floor of the Senate?
Marcus Junius Brutus
________ refer to the wax death masks used to create the high level of naturalism in portrait busts.
Imagines
In the sculpture of Augustus of Primaporta, Cupid is pictured riding a ________.
dolphin
Augustus did not view the writings of Ovid favorably, thus….
permanently banishing him from Rome.
The literary pieces that celebrated Augustus’s gift of farmlands to veterans of the civil wars was the _________.
Georgics
Each level of the Colosseum used a different architectural order: on the ground floor the _______ order, the _____ on the second, and the __________ on the third which was favored by the Romans.
Tuscan, Ionic, Corinthian
The Pantheon contained an ______, a circular opening at the top, which Hadrian conceived of as the “_____________.”
oculus; Eye of Jupiter
The term __________ refer to land-owning aristocrats who served as priests, magistrates, lawyers, and judges in ancient Rome.
patricians
The term __________ refer to the poorer class who were the craftspeople, merchants, and laborers in ancient Rome.
plebeians
Anglo-Saxon law was based on the idea of the ________, or “life-price” of an individual.
wergild
The epic poem, ________, provides an account of a Scandinavian warrior who rids a community of __________ that have ravaged the land.
Beowulf; monsters
Augustine is credited with building a cathedral at _________ and a church dedicated to St. Paul in _______.
Canterbury; London
Bishop ________ designed the Lindisfarne ________.
Eadfrith; Gospels
Roland’s horn was made from the ivory of an __________ tusk.
elephants
The dining hall where monks ate their meals was known as the _________.
refectory
The ____________ is the elongated arched masonry structure spanning an interior space and shaped like a half cylinder.
barrel vault
The _________ refers to wedge-shaped stones that form the arch in a Romanesque church.
voussoir
Chartres was considered the center of _______________ throughout the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
the cult of the Virgin
The tunic Mary wore at Jesus’ birth was considered the most cherished relic at the _____________.
Chartres Cathedral
The chief purpose of the stained-glass programs in all ____________ was to tell the stories of the Bible.
Gothic cathedrals
One of the stained-glass windows at the Chartres Cathedral shows the genealogy of Christ. The window called “___________” depicts the Virgin Mary as descended from Jesse, the father of __________, Thus fulfilling a prophecy in the book of ______.
Tree of Jesse; King David; Isaiah
In a gothic church, the ___________ was traditionally built against an exterior wall to provide support for more windows and brace it against strong winds.
flying buttress
The figure of Saint Theodore found on the jamb of Chartres’ south transept portal stands in a _____________ position.
contrapposto
The trivium consisted of:
Grammar
Rhetoric
Dialectic
________ was the first city to found a university, establishing itself as a center for the study of ___.
Bologna; law
_____ was mandatory, and students studied _____ in all courses of their first four years of study.
Latin; Latin
_____________ played a significant role in organizing theology students in Paris.
Robert de Sorbon
_____________, a logician and author of the treatise Sic et Non taught by the dialectical method.
Peter Abelard
Trotula is widely recognized as the author of ___________________.
On the Diseases of Women
______________ wrote the Summa Theologiae and was one of the prominent spokesmen for Scholasticism.
Thomas Aquinas
The Gothic church at ______________ features the highest ratio of glass to stone.
Sainte-Chapelle
Ambrogio Lorenzetti is credited with painting the fresco known as the _________________________.
Allegory of Good
Government
Fifth Symphony
Beethoven; German
Unfinished Symphony
Schubert; Austrian
New world symphony
Dvorak; Czech
Tonight We Love
Tchaikovsky; Russian
Toreador Song
Bizet; French
Grand March
Verdi; Italian
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Rachmaninoff; Russian
Swan Lake
Tchaikovsky; Russian
Blue Danube Waltz
Strauss ll; Austrian
Bolero
Ravel; French
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Mozart; Austrian
The Barber of Seville
Rossini; Italian
The Ride of the Valkyries
Wagner; German
Fanfare for the Common Man
Copeland; American
The Hallelujah Chorus
Handel; German
Wedding March
Mendelssohn; German
Lullaby
Brahms; German
Greensleeves
Williams; American
Ave Maria
Schubert; Austrian
