Art Appreciation UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Art Appreciation UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Egyptians believed that their _____ could inhabit their corpse and live on. - CORRECT
ANSWER- ka
The building system seen at Stonehenge is called _____. - CORRECT ANSWER- post and
lintel
The _____ introduced a new concept of royal...
Art Appreciation UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Egyptians believed that their _____ could inhabit their corpse and live on. - CORRECT
ANSWER- ka
The building system seen at Stonehenge is called _____. - CORRECT ANSWER- post and
lintel
The _____ introduced a new concept of royal power based on loyalty to the king. -
CORRECT ANSWER- Akkadians
Instead of creating figures with a variety of body types, Egyptians applied a _____, or system
of proportions. - CORRECT ANSWER- canon
The _____ was the Persian royal audience hall at Persepolis. - CORRECT ANSWER-
apadana
What was the daring innovation introduced in the victory stele of Naram-Sin? - CORRECT
ANSWER- A landscape setting
The oldest extant hollow-cast sculpture is _____. - CORRECT ANSWER- the head of an
Akkadian ruler
An arrangement of stones in a circle is called a _____. - CORRECT ANSWER- henge
The inhabitants of ancient _____ established the earliest city-states. - CORRECT ANSWER-
Sumer
Sumerian artists were the first to use art to _____. - CORRECT ANSWER- tell stories
The Neolithic architecture in northern Europe is described as _____ because it uses large
stones. - CORRECT ANSWER- megalithic
,Architect of the stepped pyramid of King Djoser, _____ is the first recorded name of an artist.
- CORRECT ANSWER- Imhotep
Inspired by the cult of Re, the pyramidal shape of the tombs at Gizeh symbolize _____. -
CORRECT ANSWER- the rays of the sun
Found at the temple of Amen Re at Karnak, the _____ or window level was an Egyptian
innovation. - CORRECT ANSWER- clerestory
The presentation of offerings to Inanna (Warka Vase) may represent a _____. - CORRECT
ANSWER- symbolic marriage
Greek temples reveal the influence of _____. - CORRECT ANSWER- Egyptian columnar
halls
Well-preserved Minoan frescoes were found at _____. - CORRECT ANSWER- Akrotiri
Large bronze sculptures were created using the _____ technique. - CORRECT ANSWER-
lost wax
At the time of the Trojan wars, wealthy Mycenaeans were buried in _____. - CORRECT
ANSWER- tholos tombs
How is the Parthenon imperfect? - CORRECT ANSWER- The stylobate is not straight.
Mycenaean masonry is called Cyclopean because of its _____. - CORRECT ANSWER- size
The Altar of Zeus celebrates the _____. - CORRECT ANSWER- victory of Attalos I over the
Gauls
Classical statues departed from the Archaic by abandoning _____. - CORRECT ANSWER-
the Egyptian pose
, Polykleitos created the _____ to accompany a treatise on the ideal statue of a nude male
warrior or athlete. - CORRECT ANSWER- Doryphoros
Funds from the _____ were used to finance Pericles's rebuilding of the Akropolis. -
CORRECT ANSWER- Delian League
Minoan painting introduced the first _____. - CORRECT ANSWER- pure landscape
_____ strongly influenced the pose of early Greek kouros figures. - CORRECT ANSWER-
Egyptian statues
The Greeks created the concept of _____, or rule by the people. - CORRECT ANSWER-
democracy
Cantilevered rows of stone formed a _____ above the lintel of the Lion Gate at Mycenae. -
CORRECT ANSWER- corbeled arch
Along with the patron goddess of Athens, Athena, the Parthenon celebrated the _____. -
CORRECT ANSWER- Athenian people
The heart of a Roman city is the _____. - CORRECT ANSWER- forum
_____ was Trajan's official architect and designer of his forum and markets. - CORRECT
ANSWER- Apollodorus of Damascus
In contrast to Greek architectural sculpture, the Etruscans placed sculptures on the _____ of
temples. - CORRECT ANSWER- roofs
Trajan's forum glorified his victories in two wars against the _____. - CORRECT ANSWER-
Dacians
Augustus consciously revived the _____ style in art and architecture to present his reign as a
Golden Age. - CORRECT ANSWER- classical
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