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Art History Exam with Complete Solutions Graded A+ What do the violin-shaped objects found in the Cyclades suggest? - Answer-that women's figures evolved from them Linear A allows archaeologists to read ancient Minoan. T or F? - Answer-False What are Minoan complexes built around? - Answer...

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What do the violin-shaped objects found in the Cyclades suggest? - Answer-that
women's figures evolved from them

Linear A allows archaeologists to read ancient Minoan. T or F? - Answer-False

What are Minoan complexes built around? - Answer-a central courtyard

What is the purpose of a relieving triangle? - Answer-it takes the weight off of an
opening

Which medium requires a ground of gesso, sanded, then reapplied, and sanded again
on the support before applying paint? - Answer-tempera

_______ describes when paint is applied thickly, often with a palette knife rather than a
brush. - Answer-Impasto

A glaze is typically made with which medium? - Answer-oil

What is one advantage of acrylic paint over oil? - Answer-the vehicle is water instead of
oil

Which medium uses hot wax as a binder? - Answer-encaustic

If you needed a white highlight on a watercolor painting which medium would you
choose? - Answer-gouache

What binder does tempera require? - Answer-egg yolk

A rhyton is _________. - Answer-a drinking vessel

Which culture did the early Greeks model their kouroi after? - Answer-Egyptians

A _____ is a city or city-state. - Answer-polis

What were the periods of Greek culture called that lasted from approximately 900 to 480
BCE? - Answer-Geometric, Orientalizing, Archaic

what is one main difference between a kouros and a kore? - Answer-Kore are always
dressed

, What event marked the beginning of the Classical Period in 480 BCE? - Answer-the
sacking of Athens by the Persians

A culture like the Greeks that has a large pantheon of gods is called _____. - Answer-
polytheistic

What was the singular development seen in Kritios Boy that heralded a new naturalism
in sculpture? - Answer-contrapposto

The decoration from the Orientalizing period suggests ____ - Answer-contact with
Egypt, Syria, and the Near East

The Lady of Auxerre was made during the ______ - Answer-Orientalizing period

Exekias was known for his _____ - Answer-black-figure painting on ceramics

Why was Julius Caesar killed? - Answer-The Senate was afraid he was about to have
himself declared Emperor.

Many of the decorations at Pompeii were done in _______ - Answer-mosaic

Rome was originally a/an __ - Answer-hereditary kingdom

This style of portraiture was popular during the Roman Republic. - Answer-verism

We know about Roman painting from the ______ - Answer-frescoes at Pompeii

Who killed Julius Caesar? - Answer-a number of Senators

When a number of Roman arches are placed side by side, against one another, you get
a ____ - Answer-barrel vault


What does the term "genre" refer to in art? - Answer-A classification of an artwork by
form, content or style

In art, the term Vanitas refers to: - Answer-The concept of human life and happiness as
fleeting, short-lived.

A fundamental purpose common to most art forms is the underlying intention to appeal
to, and connect with, human emotion. T or F - Answer-True

What does the term "formalism"refer to in art? - Answer-The artistic value of a work of
art is determined solely by its formal qualities, or how it is made.

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