World views

Question 1

Identify the painters of the paintings the Annunciation, Monsieur Bertin, Madame Moitessier and both Belisarius

Answer 1

Annunciation = Verrochio and Da Vinci
Monsieur Bertin = Ingres
Madame Moitessier = Ingres
Belisarius = Jacques-Louis David

Question 2

Prehistoric art:

Recognize parietal and portable art (and know their purpose)

Answer 2

Paretial art: Any prehistoric art found on cave walls, to commmunicate a message or just for fun
Portable art: prehistoric objects that were carved and created with various materials, art on objects by humans, could be rock, harpoons…

Question 3

Prehistoric art:

Whats a Venus statuette

Answer 3

Has a shape of the body of a woman, usually symmetric

Question 4

Egyptian art:

Differentiate different types a pyramids (+ know who built the step pyramid)

Answer 4

Step pyramid = Imhotep built it
Ramp pyramid
Around pyramids
Internal ramp

Question 5

Egyptian art:

Recognize “mastaba” and pylon temples and know their function

Answer 5

Mastaba = had underground burial chambers, housed a statue of the deceased
Pylon temples = MArked the entrance of the tombs

Question 6

Egyptian art:

Identify “relief” and “fresco” art

Answer 6

relief: Engraved, comes out of the stone
fresco: Mural paintings (no perspective)

Question 7

egyptian art:

Recognize Nerfertiti and Akhenaton (and know why he is still known today)

Answer 7

Nefertiti: Its a head of a woman with high black hat (hair?)
Akhenaton; is a grey statue crossing his arms. he is important because he changed the egyptian religion to worshipping a single god named Aten.

Question 8

Egyptian art:
Recognize Tutankhamon (and know why he is famous)

Answer 8

He is a mask of gold and blue color. He was one of the only acient tombs to be found nearly intact.

Question 9

Greek art:

Differentiate a Minoan palace from a Mycenaean one based on their plans

Answer 9

Minoan: huge, rectangles on top of each other, 1 big rectangle in the middle
Mycenaean: Kinda separated in different parts, not really symmetric

Question 10

Greek art:

Know a black figure from a red-figure and explain the importance of the second

Answer 10

Black comes from after the burning, red-figure remained the color of the clay

Details such as draperies and musculature were more easily delineated on Red-figure pottery because the artist could use thin lines of black paint (relief lines) instead of incisions to make details

Question 11

Greek art:

Recognize different order (doric, ionic and corinthian)

Answer 11

(see images)

Question 12

Greek art:

Know the statuette of type “kouros” (and give 3 common traits)

Answer 12

Man standing, pharaneon hair =>

1. Arms on the sides
2. Frontal is perfect symmetry
3. one leg is slightly advanced compared to the other one

Question 13

Greek art:

Recognize the Parthenon and the Grand Altar of Pergamon

Answer 13

Parthenon = many columns, stairs… (see pictures)

Grand Altar of Pergamon = huge stairs, just batiments around (square) the stairs

Question 14

Greek art:

Identify a Stoa and know its function

Answer 14

It’s really long, sometimes a red ceiling (toiture)

It was a modern shopping center

Question 15

Greek art:

Recognize colossal statues, namely Hercules (and identify 2 attributes)

Answer 15

• Social realism and naturalism
• Old age
• Baroque realism

Question 16

Roman art:

Recognize the Pantheon, a Triumphal Arch (and know the content of its relief), an Etruscan temple

Answer 16

Pantheon: high column, big dome behind, its relief: Portico, pediment, frieze, second pediment, intermediate block, domed rotunda

Triumphal Arch: images on its panels, like in the champs élysées

Etruscan temple: see drawing and pictures

Question 17

Roman art:

Recognize the Colosseum, explain its purpose, know its creator

Answer 17

“Colisée”, has 4 levels, it was built to take away focus on the war, was for shows, like gladiatorial games

Creator: Emperor Vespasian
TITUS FINISHED IT, he made the top level

Question 18

Roman art:

Recognize an equedestrian statue (and identify its rider)

Answer 18

On a horse, the rider is named Marcus Aurelius

Question 19

Roman art:

Recognize a Roman Basilica and know its function and origin

Answer 19

Huge, big, usually split in 3 aisles, was a place for buisiness transactions

a basilica is a large public building with multiple functions, typically built alongside the town’s forum. The basilica was in the Latin West equivalent to a stoa in the Greek East.

Question 20

Roman art:

Recognize the different orders (Tuscan and Composite)

Answer 20

Doric => Tuscan, Four sided and Corinthian => Composite

Question 21

Medieval art:

Differentiate between a Romanesque church and a Gothic one (either from the inside or the outside)

Answer 21

Romanesque: architecture = large, internal spaces, barrel vaults, thick walls, rounded arches, windows + doors

Gothic: bright, colourful, soaring, highness, flying buttresses, vertical lines

Question 22

Medieval art:

Recognize a “mosaic” and “stained glass” windows (and to be able to identify the characters)

Answer 22

Mosaic = tiny little squares or triangles and shapes, put together to form an image

Stained glass: many pieces of glass stained

characters: good samaritain window, glorification of the virgin…

Question 23

Medieval art:

Know why gothic artists turned to stained glass windows

Answer 23

To fill the interior with a mystical colored light = Holy Spirit

Question 24

Medieval art:

Recognize a tympanum and know its iconography (meaning) and purpose

Answer 24

triangular surface, semi-circular area enclosed by the arch above the lintel of an arched entranceway. Just to stylize relief sculpture

Question 25

Renaissance architecture:

Recognize Bramante’s Tempietto and Palladio’s Villa Rotunda (building or plan)

Answer 25

Tempietto = round, cross on the top (see image)

Villa rotunda = really square (see image)

Question 26

Renaissance architecture:
Know who conceived Santa Maria Novella’s façade or the Foundling Hospital’s façade and the latter, identify 3 elements of his style

Answer 26

By Leon Battista Alberti
=> Romanesque
=> Gothic
=> Classical

Question 27

Renaissance architecture:

Explain which problem Alberti and Palladio faced and how they solved it; and which solution became more popular

Answer 27

Alberti: (santa maria novella) The problem was putting a classical façade on a basilica, so he decided to put a façade in front of the other façade

alberti: upper part, he added the horizontal band in the middle, volu is what is on the side, the problem is putting a classical façade on a basilica.

Palladio: same problem, they both added volues

Question 28

Renaissance architecture:

Recognize Santa Maria presso San Satiro and explain what is special about Bramante’s sanctuary

Answer 28

(see image)
There is a trompe l’oeil at the end of the sanctuary to give an impression of fake depth. The church is made in T, but the depth gives the impression of a cross “t”

Question 29

Baroque architecture:

Identify Bernini’s, Borromini’s and Michelangelo’s dome

Answer 29

Michelangelo and Bernini = St-Peter’s
Bernini = Sant’ Andréa al Quirinale
Borromini’ = Saint Charles of the four fountains

Question 30

Baroque architecture:

Explain the problems with Maderno’s work on St. Peter’s

Answer 30

• Hid the dome michelangelo designed

- It’s not high enough, the emphasis is put horizontally and should have been put vertically