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Brunelleschi's arcade of the Ospedale degli Innocenti deviates from Roman
architecture, which ___________________.
A. employed post and lintel architecture
B. featured pointed arches
C. combined columns with straight architraves
D. used only solid walls
The burial site discovered at Sutton Hoo revealed the grave's occupant had been buried
in a ________________.
A. bed
B. ship
C. throne
D. stone sarcophagus
Sir Arthur Evans named the Minoan civilization after the legend of __________, whose
half-man, half-bull son was said to live in a maze below the palace.
A. Europa
B. Paris
C. Apollo
D. King Minos
The Belgian artist James Ensor frequently used _______in his terrifying paintings,
which combined aspects of Symbolism and Expressionism.
A. weapons
B. femme fatales
C. demons
D. masks
The moai found at Rapa Nui have no _________.
A. hair
B. eyes
C. hands
D. legs
What architectural element of the choir at the Abbey Church of Saint-Denis was
introduced at the time of Abbot Suger's redesign?
A. the ambulatory surrounding the apse
B. the radiating chapels
C. the ribbed groin vaults and external buttresses
D. non-load-bearing walls filled with stained glass
The practice in Benin to make memorial sculptures for the shrines of royal ancestors
derives from similar traditions in ____________.
A. Nok culture
B. Ife
C. Portugal
D. Great Zimbabwe
Throughout the colonial period and after World War II, many African artists trained in
__________.
A. Japan
B. Europe
C. China
D. India
The ancient land of Kush, ____________, was chosen as the site of the Temple of
Ramses II since it was the source of his gold, ivory, and exotic skins.
A. Thebes
B. Aswan
C. Nubia
D. Memphis
The earliest evidence for our human existence comes from __________.
A. southern Africa
B. northern Africa
C. western Africa
D. eastern Africa
__________ explorers first arrived in the Americas in 1519.
A. Japanese
B. African
C. European
D. Chinese
Which of these works by Michelangelo was made in Rome?
A. the Piet (Fig. 21-9)
B. David (Fig. 21-10)
C. Tomb of Giuliano de" Medici with Allegorical Figures of Day and Night (Fig. 21-17)
D. Vestibule of the Laurentian Library (Fig. 21-18)
Pope Julius II's private library was painted by __________.
A. Giorgione
B. Michelangelo
C. Tintoretto
D. Raphael
Saarinen wanted to evoke the excitement of air travel in his expressive and swooping
design for a/an __________.
A. art museum
B. skyscraper
C. airport terminal
D. house
Stonehenge was created in __________ phases of construction and activity, starting in
3000 BCE during the Neolithic Period and stretching over a millennium and a half into
the Bronze Age.
A. eight
B. two
C. ten
D. four
In its day, art of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries was called the _______________,
but Giorgio Vasari, an artist and art historian of the sixteenth century, coined the term
"Gothic" as a pejorative reference to its rejection of the classical principles that
regained popularity in the Renaissance.
A. French style
B. International style
C. Church style
D. Denisian style
Charles IV made __________ the capital of the Holy Roman Empire.
A. Paris
B. London
C. Munich
D. Prague
The ___________ style of English architecture heralded the Renaissance in its
regularity and balance.
A. Vesperbild
B. Perpendicular
C. Parler
D. Norman
Despite Louis XIV's extravagant surroundings and clothing in the portrait of him by
Hyacinthe Rigaud, the artist also made him appear _______________.
A. tired and aged
B. as a beneficiary of the people
C. God-like
D. surprisingly human
Which figure does NOT exemplify the exacting naturalism that characterizes Flemish
portraiture of the fifteenth century?
A. the woman in Jan van Eyck's Double Portrait of A Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife
(Fig. 19-1)
B. the figure in Jan van Eyck's Man in a Red Turban (Fig. 19-12)
C. the Virgin in Dieric Bouts's Virgin and Child (Fig. 19-18)
D. the donor in the Mrode Altarpiece by the Master of Flmalle (Fig. 19-10)
The ideals of Daoism and Confucianism were formulated during the __________
dynasty.
A. Eastern
B. Zhou
C. Xia
D. Shang
__________ considered ancient Roman equestrian portraits in his design for
Gattamelata (Fig. 20-15).
A. Verrocchio
B. Donatello
C. Ghiberti
D. Alberti
The Bull's-Head Rhyton (Fig. 4-10) would have been used _____________.
A. to pour ritual libations
B. as a votive statue
C. to carry water
D. as a tomb guardian
Which of the following features is NOT characteristic of West African mosques?
A. adobe brick
B. battered walls that slope inward toward the top
C. projecting wooden beams called torons
D. tall, narrow, engaged columns that act as buttresses
The Tempest (Fig. 21-24) is the most famous work of __________, a short-lived painter.
A. Romano
B. Corregio
C. Rossi
D. Giorgione
Accomplished, educated women of the upper class often hosted __________, which
were intimate, fashionable, and intellectual gatherings.
A. satires
B. tours
C. salons
D. academies
A __________ was often part of a handscroll and could consist of inscriptions related to
the work, such as a poem or comments by various owners of the scroll over time.
A. index
B. antiphon
C. forward
D. colophon
The Venetian artist __________ proclaimed he wanted to combine Titian's color with
the drawing of Michelangelo.
A. Michelangelo
B. Romano
C. Tintoretto
D. Veronese
Which of the following is NOT a type of ceramics?
A. Porcelain
B. Earthenware
C. Kiln
D. Stoneware
Several changes, including ___________ in the final product suggest that tapestry
weavers did NOT slavishly follow Raphael's cartoons.
A. eliminating several figures
B. leaving the background a solid color
C. staging the scene in front of a cityscape
D. making Christ's garment more elaborate
During the Romanesque period, sculpted imagery was placed on the
________________ focusing attention on the portal complexes.
A. arcades
B. altar
C. towers
D. entrances
Housing in a Roman city was made up of apartment blocks called __________.
A. compartments
B. segments
C. insulae
D. burrows.
A (An) __________ is literally a "city of the dead."
A. necropolis
B. acropolis
C. metropolis
D. megalopolis
Holbein's style in the representation of the French Ambassadors recalls the work of
______________.
A. Mathias Grnewald
B. Albrecht Altdorfer
C. Pieter Bruegel
D. Jan van Eyck
