The Annotated Mona Lisa: Pages 6 - 7

Question 1

Tower of Babel

Answer 1

• Bruegel the Elder
• 1563
• Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
• 270 feet high, 80 stepped towers, gates of solid brass, 120 lions brightly colored
• had a spiral stairway which mounted the summit to an inner sanctuary where Babylonians claimed their god slept

Question 2

The Hanging Gardens

Answer 2

• one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

- a series of four brick terraces, with lush flowering shrubs and trees, above the Euphrates River

Question 3

The First Urban Planners

Answer 3

• created architectural complexes that had an inner shrine, workshops, storehouses, and residential quarter
• used sun-dried brick as a basic building block

Question 4

The Palace of Sargon II

Answer 4

• was destroyed in 600 B.C.

- consisted of workshops, a ziggurat, a temple, residences, etc.

Question 5

The perennial pyramid

Answer 5

• many people thought its shape had magic powers

- pyramid shape used in different cultures

Question 6

Bas-Relief Sculpture

Answer 6

• consists of story with cuneiform and carved people/animals

Question 7

The Dying Lioness

Answer 7

• Nineveh
• c. 650 B.C.
• British Museum, London