Sculptures of WCA

Question 1

Materials used in sculptures vary according to region and locality. Archeologists believed that their sculpture is a result of natural erosion and not of human artistry. Frequently carving may have mythological or religious significance.

Answer 1

Pre-Historic Sculptures

Question 2

Venus of Willendorf

Answer 2

Pre-Historic Sculptures

Question 3

Venus of Brassempouy

Answer 3

Pre-Historic Sculptures

Question 4

It is carved from limestone with
excessively heavy breast and abdomen
used as charm to ensure fertility.

Answer 4

Venus of Willendorf

Question 5

A sculpture of a lady with the hood. It
is a fragmentary ivory figurine from
the Upper Paleolithic Era that
realistically represents human face
and hairstyle

Answer 5

Venus of Brassempouy

Question 6

Symbolic elements such as forms, hieroglyphics, relative size, location, materials, color, actions, and gestures were widely used. Their tombs required the most extensive use of sculpture.

Answer 6

Egyptian Sculptures

Question 7

The _____ has the most common materials used for sculptures are wood, ivory, and stones.

Answer 7

Egyptian Sculptures

Question 8

Realistic with heavy lided eyes, slender neck, determined chin,and oure profile under her heavy crown

Answer 8

Queen Nefertiti

Question 9

An example of portraits presented in rigid postures and
were simple and powerful with
very little show of private emotion

Answer 9

The Pharaoh Menkaure and his Queen

Question 10

Early _____ sculptures were tensed and stiff, their bodies were hidden within enfolding robes. After three centuries of experiments, Greek sculptures had finally evolved and showed all the points of human anatomy and proportion.

Answer 10

Greek Sculptures

Question 11

One of the most popular styles was the Hellenistic style. Hellenistic denotes a preference in sculpture for more elaborated patterns, mannered arrangement of figures and groups, and an emphasis on the representation of movement for dramatic effects.

Answer 11

Greek Sculptures

Question 12

Shows an attitude of maximum tension, full of compressed energy, and about to explode an action.

Answer 12

The Discobulus

Question 13

Most sculptures are made of monumental terra-cotta. They did not attempt to compete with the free standing Greek works of history or mythology but rather they produced reliefs in the Great Roman triumphal columns with continuous narrative reliefs around.

Answer 13

Roman Sculptures

Question 14

Queen Nefertiti

Answer 14

Egyptian Sculpture

Question 15

Used for the burial of Roman General involved in the campaign of Marcus Aurellius

The best known and most elaborate of all sarcophages (It is a box-like funeral receptacle for a dead body. Comes from a Greek word sarx meaning “flesh” and phagein meaning “to eat”)

It depicts battle scenes between Romans and Germans

Carved in marble

Answer 15

The Portonacio Sarcophages

Question 16

The dominant themes in Byzantine sculptures are religious, everyday life scenes, and motifs from nature.

Answer 16

Byzantine Sculpture

Question 17

Animals were used as symbols (dove, deer, peafowl) while some had acrostic signs (form of writing in which a message is formed by taking the first letter, syllable, or word of different lines and putting them together) that contained a great theological significance.

Answer 17

Byzantine Sculpture

Question 18

Some of the famous sculptural pieces are reliquaries, altar frontals, crucifixes, and devotional images. Small individual works of art were generally made of costly materials for royal and aristocratic patrons. These lightweight devotional images were usually carried during processions both inside and outside the churches.

Answer 18

Romanesque Sculpture

Question 19

have a greater freedom of style. They no longer lay closely against the wall, but begun to project outward. Figures were given their own particular attitudes instead of being set into particular patterns and are more lively and realistic.

Answer 19

Gothic sculptures