Art History Exam Review

The paintings of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo are ________than those by Diego Rivera

Painted for an unknown patron, Fragonard's The Swing suggests the _____ of his clientele.

The ____is located within a mestaba and acts as a chapel for offerings and mourners

Why did Romans use concrete?

After the Russian Revolution, artists collectively created propaganda art called

How is the Renaissance a combination of past time periods?

The name of still-life paintings with a moralizing theme were very popular in the 17th century

The Great Pyramids at Giza were originally faced with a veneer of polished

How does the Augustus of Primaporta differ from Greek Classical sculpture?

A bronze sculpture called____was created based on The Canon of Polykleitos

The technique of painting on a wet plaster surface is called

The animals at Lascaux were painted following a style called

Mondrian's interest in abstraction was an attempt to bring___________ to the world

The wall of the prayer hall that is closest to Mecca is called the ___wall

____was the first architect of Il Gesu

The themes implied in Bill Viola's The Crossing speak to all of the following, except

Which of the following is NOT a characteristics of Mannerism?

______were huge stepped structures surmounted by a shrine or temple

Prehistoric images of people wearing masks, like Running Horned Woman indicate interest in

The Hawaiian feather cape was created to be a

The Umayyad architects of the Great Mosque of Cordoba borrowed from Roman architecture by

What religious theme unites the mosaics at the Church of San Vitale

The content of Paik's work, Electronic Superhighway

Gothic cathedrals differ from those built in the Romanesque period in their

An atrium is...

The word "Neolithic" means

The text that is included in Rebellious Silence is

Alfred Steiglitz was the chief proponent of European Modern art in

The word megalithic means

Why were feathers considered such prestigious objects in Hawaii?

Who ran the Roman Republic?

Helen Frankenthaler influenced other artists with her innovative process and technique of

Oppenheim's Object relates to Duchamp's Fountain because they both...

Where is the vanishing point in Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper?

Which object symbolizes the unification of Egypt and the beginning of the dynastic period?

_____was painted in the refectory of a monastery

Sumerian votive figures possess_____that reflect Mesopotamian devotional beliefs.

The Great Sphinx is thought to be a portrait of

In the 15th century Italy, wealthy families, such as the ____in Florence, were powerful patrons

The artist of the Alexander Mosaic likely intended to celebrate ancient Greek art by

Pathos is a characteristic of which period of Ancient Greece?

In the Old Kingdom, pharaohs were typically portrayed as____in sculptures

Guardian figures, called lamassus, combined features from all of the following EXCEPT____

A ____is literally a "city of the dead"

What allows the dome of Hagia Sophia to appear to float mysteriously?

_____was the subject of the East Pediment of the Parthenon

David's painting Oath of the Horatti became an emblem of the French_____

A_____or fully enlightened being that chooses to guide people to Nirvana.

The sculptor Polykleitos wrote a treatise called____a set of rules for the ideal human figure

Communities during the Romanesque Period sought to own___because it enhanced their prestige

How was Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon innovative?

What divided the city of Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City, into four quadrants?

Which of the following would NOT be seen in a Greek Kore figure?

Which feature of Etruscan temples most resembled temples built in Greece?

Claes Oldenburg created sculptures from__________of consumer culture during the Vietnam War.

____was commissioned to paint the Scrovegni Chapel

What are the 3 periods of Greece in order?

The content and themes of Mariko Nori's Pure Land

The cave of Lascaux is in the country

The simplest form of construction used to span space is______and _______

The Code of Hammurabi is significant as both a work of ancient Mesopotamian art and as

The_____was created for a hospital that specialized in the care of patients with skin diseases

Frank Lloyd Wright's use of flat, horizontal planes in Fallingwater characterize what movement?

Like most New Kingdom temples, the Temple of Hatshepsut is built along a

In both red and black figure vase painting, the areas that were painted in slip would be ____