The main god worshiped at the Ise Shrine is the sun goddess Amaterasu-o-mi-kami, the
legendary progenitor of Japan’s _________.
A. goddess
B. king
C. imperial family
D. army
During the Edo period, intellectuals in Kyoto protested against the Tokugawa shoguns
by ______________.
A. publishing woodblock prints
B. supporting an imperial coup
C. inciting student protests
D. drinking sencha
Stonehenge was built in __________-and-__________ construction.
A. post; lintel
B. corbel; cantilever
C. lintel; beam
D. post; corbel
Similar to Jan van Eyck, the objects in Hugo van der Goes’s Portinari Altarpiece
_________________.
A. contain a personal meaning for the donor
B. are secular references
C. have symbolic meaning
D. refer to the wealth of the donor
What is a key problem with fresco secco?
A. It forces painters to work quickly
B. It cannot be reworked
C. The pigment may eventually flake off
D. All of the above
________________ exerted quality control among members and supervised education.
A. Confraternities
B. Monastic orders
C. Guilds
D. Mendicants
Works created by ____________demonstrates the influence of Mughal painting style on
later Indian painters.
A. Rajput painters
B. the Kangra School
C. artists in the court of Akbar
D. none of the above
How does the Augustus of Primaporta (Fig. 6-19) differ from Greek Classical
sculpture?
A. the figure’s proportions
B. the figure’s youthful appearance
C. the figure’s identifiable facial features
D. none of the above
Some scholars suggest a relationship between the geometric order underlying Gothic
cathedrals and scholasticism, an intellectual system of thought that attempted to
reconcile Christian theology with _____________.
A. mathematical principles
B. engineering practices of Egypt and the Ancient Near East
C. Classical philosophy
D. socio-economic concerns
What changes occurred in the production of Native American beadwork after European
contact?
A. Native artists began to use glass beads from Venice and Bohemia.
B. Decorative beadwork became commonplace.
C. Native artists adapted European needlework techniques and floral designs.
D. All of the above.
______________ is one of the best-known works of public art in the United States.
A. Tilted Arc
B. House
C. The Division of the Barrios
D. Vietnam Veterans Memorial
During the sixteenth century, ____________ was the commercial center of the southern
Netherlands.
A. Hertogenbosch
B. Antwerp
C. Amsterdam
D. Bruges
A city of waterways, __________, emerged as a major Renaissance art center in the
latter part of the fifteenth century.
A. Mantua
B. Venice
C. Siena
D. Florence
American-born sculptor Edmonia Lewis employed a ________ style to address modern
issues such as slavery.
A. Realist
B. Neoclassical
C. Impressionist
D. Symbolist
The leader of the Greek army that conquered the city of Troy was called __________.
A. Patroclus
B. Agamemnon
C. Paris
D. Achilles
The female pharaoh __________ was one of the few women to have ruled Egypt.
A. Akhetaten
B. Hatshepsut
C. Akhenaten
D. Tutankhamen
Before the fourteenth century, most painting in India had been on __________ or
__________.
A. walls; palm leaves
B. walls; calf skin
C. walls; copper
D. walls; bamboo reeds
How does the nude male torso found at Harappa (Fig. 10-5) forecast essential attributes
of later Indian sculpture?
A. its small intimate scale
B. the sensuous emphasis on the body
C. the use of nudity
D. the removable arts and head
The detail of Admonitions of the Imperial Instructress to Court Ladies (Fig. 11-10) is an
example of a format known as the __________.
A. handscroll
B. longscroll
C. landscape scroll
D. vertical scroll
Louise Nevelson arrives at works such as Sky Cathedral (Fig. 32-2) after
_____________.
A. piecing together different shapes of glass
B. experimenting with combines
C. stacking boxes of discarded objects together
D. collaging photographs
There are three principal basket-making techniques: __________, plaiting, and twining.
A. shoving
B. brushing
C. burning
D. coiling
For the Lega people, bwami __________ symbolize continuity between the living
community and the spirit realm and are typically exquisitely made at the highest level.
A. homes
B. masks
C. skirts
D. tables
The people of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea create a special structure called a
Malagan Display (Fig. 28-7) to house elaborately carved and painted sculptures for
what purpose?
A. honor the dead
B. celebrate a victory in battle
C. initiate adolescents
D. wedding ceremonies
How does the architecture of Chavin de Huantar reflect its position as an important
religious center in the Andean highlands on a trade route between the coast and Amazon
basin?
A. the U-shaped Old Temple
B. the sunken circular courtyards
C. the synthesis of regional architectural forms
D. none of the above
How were designs traditionally made on bark cloth?
A. freehand painting
B. stamps made from bamboo
C. rubbing pigment on cloth placed over a carved patterned surface
D. all of the above
What subject was NOT depicted in the relief panels decorating Assurbanipal’s palace at
Nineveh?
A. scenes of court life
B. battle scenes
C. hunting scenes
D. scenes from the Epic of Gilgamesh
The ______________ is the protuberance on the head of Buddha, one of several
traditional attributes of the figure.
A. mathura
B. ushnisha
C. sutra
D. laksana
Columns whose capitals resemble acanthus leaves are called __________.
A. Ionic
B. Tuscan
C. Corinthian
D. Doric
In what context did the notion of an avant-garde among artists first appear?
A. discussions by bourgeois members of the “caf society” in Paris
B. alternative exhibitions of artists who had been rejected by the Salon
C. the writings of Karl Marx
D. in programs of French utopian socialists
The image of the Lamentation at Nerezi reflects the ______________ of Byzantine art
under the Komnenians.
A. short squatty figures
B. painterly spontaneity
C. flat, two-dimensionality
D. aloof and emotionless quality
The enthusiasm of __________ for all things Italian meant that the Italian Renaissance
style soon appeared in French architecture.
A. Francis I
B. Martin Luther
C. John Calvin
D. Erasmus