Review For Quiz 1 Flashcards
What is the Name of this monument?
Stonehenge
What are these?
Menhirs
Who is this?
King Menkaure and queen
Which painting is more advanced?
A is more advanced because it uses metaphor and allegory.
What is this called?
Serpent mound, from North America
What are the canonical views in Egyptian sculpture?
Full face, strict profile, vertically, from above
What is the name of this sculpture?
Stepped pyramid of Djoser by Imhotep.
Why are these columns important?
They are a form of architectural expression.
What natural object are these columns based upon?
Lotus.
What is the overall experience supposed to mimic?
The beginning of the world
What is the purpose of the temple of Ramsses 2.
- To serve as a temple for the Pharoh.
- To serve as a center for learning.
- To serve as a calendar.
What is this?
Palate of Narmer
Who is this?
Nefertiti, amaranth style
Name of this structure?
Temple of queen Hatshepsut.
Why is this significant?
Natural environment, surrounding landscape.
Which Kingdom?
New Kingdom
Seated scribe, what is the significance of this canon?
It demonstrates that AGE, SLACK BODY, AND INTELLIGENCE are all desirable traits.
Lady Sennuwy, what is the significance?
This middle/new kingdom sculpture demonstrates a change in the canon of Pharaonic sculpture.
Opening of the mouth ceremony, what is the significance?
Associated with the Egyptian book of the dead.
What is this an example of?
Persian Animal style art
What is this?
Ishtar Gate
What is this piece called?
Stele of Hammurabi
What is this?
Bronze head of Sargon.
Why is this piece significant?
It demonstrates that the near east was capable of large bronze.
Title
Standard of Ur
What is the term for this type of sculpture?
Sumerian Abu votive sculptures
What is the purpose of the big eyes?
Apotropaic, to ward off the evil eye
What are these for?
Funerary sculptures
What is the purpose?
A rhyton, a ceremonial drinking cup
What is the name of artifacts like these?
Frying Pan
What palace is this from?
From Knossos in Crete.
What culture?
Mycenaeans
Where is this located?
Mainland Greece
What mythological beast built it? (According to the Greeks)
Cyclops
What is this?
Kamare Style
What is the significance?
Kamare ware demonstrates an aptitude, and a sense of design that illustrated a love of nature and influenced Greek pottery.
Through what media did Archaic Greek painters express themselves?
Pottery painting
What style?
Red figure style?
What style?
Early phase Geometric
Identify
Dipylon Vase, like a grave marker. Typically large, named for the Dipylon cemetery.
What style?
Black figure style?
What order?
Ionian
What order of Architecture?
Corinthian
