Where can one find depictions of William the Conqueror’s invasion and eventual defeat
of England?
a. Bishop Bernward’s doors
b. Bayeux Embroidery
c. Worcester Chronicle
d. a book of homilies
The English word “artist” comes from
a. Latin.
b. Greek.
c. Egyptian.
d. French.
Qin Shihuangdi’s ceramic soldiers were mass-produced using
a. standardized molds.
b. body casts.
c. cylinders for legs, arms, torso.
d. stamps.
An upright stone slab decorated with writing or images that is used as a marker or
memorial is a
a. dolmen.
b. stele.
c. pylon.
d. cairn.
What did Veronese change about his Feast in the House of Levi from traditional scenes
of the same subject?
a. He removed the German soldiers.
b. He changed the architectural setting.
c. He revised the title of the work.
d. He removed the dogs.
Who wrote Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Architects, Painters, and Sculptors, the
main publication from which art historians trace the beginnings of the discipline?
a. Giorgio Vasari
b. Pliny the Elder
c. Johann Joachim Winckelmann
d. Parrhasios
What current political structure exists in the Islamic world after the dissolution of the
great Islamic empires?
a. monarchy
b. autocracy
c. nation-state
d. dictatorship
Why is Zhao Mengfu unusual?
a. He was a high Yuan official.
b. He resigned his position with the Yuan court.
c. He refused association with the Yuan dynasty.
d. He combined poetry and painting.
Maria Montoya Martinez’s famous pottery was decorated in which of the following
ways?
a. designs of colored glazes
b. different metallic slips
c. black and white designs
d. matte black and glossy black designs
Architects that rejected the values of modern industry and recaptured a pre-industrial
sense of beauty practiced which of the following styles?
a. Art Nouveau
b. historicism
c. Impressionism
d. Realism
What renewed the patronage of foreign artists in England after the Puritan takeover led
by Oliver Cromwell?
a. the restoration of the Hapsburgs
b. the death of Charles I
c. the restoration of the Stuarts under Charles II
d. the exile of Marie de” Medici
The Minoan writing that has been deciphered is
a. hieroglyphic.
b. Linear A.
c. Linear B.
d. cuneiform.
Which of the following features of the Taj Mahal represents the Islamic notion of
paradise?
a. the mosque
b. the tomb
c. the rest house
d. the garden
What inspired the spiral turned columns of Bernini’s Baldacchino?
a. a tornado
b. the Hall of One Hundred Columns at Persepolis
c. columns from Solomon’s Temple
d. columns from Djoser’s funerary complex
Which of the following is a building used as a tomb?
a. stupa
b. module
c. mausoleum
d. cenotaph
Which of the following influenced sixteenth-century thinking so that paintings of
female nudes became socially acceptable?
a. the decline of Christianity
b. the interest in Classical mythology
c. the dress styles of the day
d. a relaxing of moral standards
As seen at Saint-Lazare, Autun, how is a Last Judgment scene typically laid out?
a. The damned are not depicted.
b. The damned are on the viewer’s left.
c. The damned are on Christ’s left.
d. The damned are beneath Christ’s feet.
Compared to Paleolithic sculpture, the Woman and Man from Cernavoda display more
a. exaggerated features.
b. attitude and expression.
c. idealization.
d. ritual significance.
Which Baroque element did David include in his Napoleon Crossing the
Saint-Bernard?
a. the loose, fluid brushwork
b. the emphasis on color over line
c. the sweeping diagonals
d. evocation of intense emotion
The art of beautiful writing is known as
a. painting.
b. drawing.
c. inscription.
d. calligraphy.
Which was considered by the Incas to be a worthy gift to the gods?
a. smoke
b. cloth
c. obsidian
d. a human heart
What is typically Northern (rather than Italian) about Drer’s Adam and Eve?
a. the proportions of the figures
b. the inclusion of animals
c. the descriptive detail
d. the name plaque
Which of the following is a series of arches in a row?
a. arcade
b. aqueduct
c. spandrel
d. entablature
A high-ranking angel closely associated with God is
a. a madrasa.
b. a transept.
c. an icon.
d. a cherub.
Which culture strongly influenced the Assyrians?
a. Sumerian
b. Babylonian
c. Egyptian
d Akkadian
The Parthenon is a Greek temple dedicated to
a. Poseidon.
b. Athena.
c. Aphrodite.
d. Zeus.
Which is the semicircular area above the door lintel of a church?
a. archivolt
b. trumeau
c. jamb
d. tympanum
Which kind of work did the 291 gallery promote?
a. American Realism
b. Impressionism
c. European Modernism
d. the “Ashcan School”
In the Doric order, which of the following are alternating panels in the frieze, which are
sometimes sculpted?
a. metopes
b. triglyphs
c. palmettes
d. volutes
Who began the concept of seeing objects from different viewpoints into the same
painting?
a. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
b. Edvard Munch
c. Paul Gauguin
d. Paul Czanne
Which of the following describes Robert Rauschenberg’s “combines”?
a. large rectangles that hint at a momentary resolution of our duality
b. thinned oil paints that resemble watercolor
c. a chaotic mixture of painted and found elements
d. imagery from cartoons and advertisements