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Which of the following describes the roads built around Pueblo Bonito?
a. wide and straight
b. concentric
c. radiating
d. following the terrain
What did Duchamp call found objectsthat is, ordinary manufactured items?
a. readymades
b. collage
c. Suprematism
d. Prouns
Who began the long tradition of illusionistic ceiling painting?
a. Sandro Botticelli
b. Andrea Mantegna
c. Giovanni Bellini
d. Piero della Francesca
Which of the following is a mixture of clay and water that is applied to the surface of an
unfired ceramic vessel?
a. niello
b. slip
c. glaze
d. enamel
What are the religiously sanctioned hereditary social classes in India called?
a. samsara
b. mudras
c. castes
d. vedas
Compare and contrast the early Christian church Old St. Peter's Basilica and the early
Byzantine church Hagia Sophia.
Which is the basis for Botticelli's Venus?
a. Masaccio's Eve
b. the antique Medici Venus
c. Donatello's David
d. Pollaiuolo's Battle of the Nudes
Who was the favorite painter of French Queen Marie Antoinette?
a. Marie-Louise-lisabeth Vige-Lebrun
b. Thomas Gainsborough
c. Angelica Kauffmann
d. Adlade Labille-Guiard
Which describes work by Peter Voulkos?
a. torn, gouged, and pierced traditional ceramic forms
b. trompe l"oeil realism done in carved wood
c. wooden objects that may suggest a sea creature or musical instrument
d. closed form, nonfunctional ceramic forms with richly colored glazes
Which of the following was an innovation in Gothic architecture?
a. horseshoe arches
b. round arches
c. ribbed groin vaults
d. stained glass windows
In Ghana, the Ashanti ruler's spokesperson was identified
a. by his staff.
b. by his jewelry.
c. by the stance.
d. by the medium.
Which is an early photographic process that was used to make a print with a
silver-coated metal plate treated with iodine fumes and exposed to mercury vapor?
a. daguerreotype
b. calotype
c. lithograph
d. albumen print
Noblemen from which cultural group wore Torcs?
a. Celts
b. Greeks
c. Neo-Babylonians
d. Persians
The art of which country so greatly influenced French art in the last half of the
nineteenth century that a term was coined (the country's name being the root of the
term) just to describe this influence?
a. China
b. Japan
c. India
d. Turkey
Why did figures such as the Spirit Spouse display the most admired and desirable marks
of beauty?
a. to please the owners
b. to encourage spirits to assist the owners of the figures
c. to transform the power of the figure to the gods
d. to represent the beauty of the ancestors
Which is the inspiration for the Farnese ceiling?
a. Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel
b. Bernini's Cornaro Chapel
c. Gaulli's frescoes in Il Gesu
d. Mantegna's Camera Picta
A structure that transports flowing water is called
a. a voussoir.
b. a pier.
c. a bay.
d. an aqueduct.
Which of the following are windows above a side roof that let light into the central
interior space?
a. pylons
b. hypostyle
c. bracketing
d. clerestory
Which of the following are stone gateways around a stupa?
a. pylons
b. toranas
c. mudras
d. chakras
Where was the synagogue at Dura-Europos located?
a. private home
b. catacomb
c. palace
d. marketplace
Although Byodo-in temple was originally a secular palace, it was designed to evoke the
a. Great Ultimate.
b. Western Paradise.
c. world mountain.
d. home of Vishnu.
What types of buildings were built in the Gothic style?
a. Christian churches
b. Jewish synagogues
c. town halls
d. all of the above
Who first demonstrated the system of linear perspective?
a. Masaccio
b. Brunelleschi
c. Donatello
d. Ghiberti
Interestingly, who hung a copy of Fuseli's The Nightmare in his office?
a. Napoleon Bonaparte
b. Sigmund Freud
c. Thomas Jefferson
d. Winston Churchill
The Seagram Building in New York is one of the finest examples of which style of
architecture?
a. Postmodernism
b. Historicism
c. International Style
d. Beaux-Arts
Which ancient Americans made the most accurate calendar?
a. Olmec
b. Aztec
c. Nazca
d. Maya
The top rock on a dolmen is called the
a. bridge.
b. henge.
c. capstone.
d. cairn.
Which of the following is a threat to the Sphinx today?
a. pollution
b. unstable governments
c. arid environment
d. the Nile
How does the performance style of Ngady mwaash differ from Bwoom?
a. It is performed by women.
b. It is celebrating the life of the deceased.
c. It is graceful and nonthreatening.
d. It is accompanied by weaponry.
Who introduced the term Gothic?
a. Michelangelo Buonarroti
b. Giorgio Vasari
c. Petrarch
d. Dante
Why is Upper Egypt in the south and Lower Egypt in the north?
a. The Nile River floods in the south.
b. The Nile River floods in the north.
c. The Nile River flows from north to south.
d. The Nile River flows from south to north.
Explain the purpose and symbolism in Ti Watching a Hippopotamus Hunt.
Compare and contrast Lucas Cranach's Nymph of the Spring and Titian's "Venus" of
Urbino.
How is Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance both a genre painting and an allegorical
vanitas painting?
How and why did the early style of Michelangelo, as seen in David, change to his later
style, as seen in the Last Judgment?
Describe at least three of the possible meanings that prehistoric painting may have had,
and explain the rationale as to why each has been considered.
What subtle adjustments or refinements were made in the Parthenon that gave it a more
organic appearance? Speculate about the possible reasons for these refinements.
Describe the characteristics of the Les Fauves movement, using Le Bonheur de Vivre
(The Joy of Life) by Henri Matisse as an example.
How does the work of Judy Chicago embody the feminist movement? Discuss the
iconography of her work, The Dinner Party.
Discuss the composition, movement, and technique of Nicola Pisano's baptistery pulpit
relief sculpture, Annunciation, Nativity, and Adoration of the Shepherds.
How does the altar from Pergamon highlight the characteristics of Hellenistic art?
Discuss the controversies over public funding of the arts. Use Chris Ofili's The Holy
Virgin Mary as an example.
What is art history? What are some of the natural and human threats to artworks that
concern contemporary art historians? Give an example.
What makes Shen Zhou's Poet on a Mountaintop such an excellent example of literati
painting during the Ming dynasty?
How was the Chilkat Blanket used? Discuss the formal qualities and style.
How might the name of an object, such as the Woman from Willendorf, alter the way we
understand it?
