Unit 3 Review

This piece represents a figure 

• Witnessing a sacred event
• Showing loyalty to an emperor
• Alighting on the prow of a marble ship carved as a fountain
• Experiencing spiritual enlightenment

What identifies this pieces as Hellenistic Greek?

• Its dynamic movement
• Its idealized qualities
• Its abstraction
• Its headless quality

This piece is Roman, based off of a Hellenistic painting, which no longer exists. What does it depict?

• Alexander the Great's victory over the Persians
• The Battle of Marathon
• The Roman defeat over the Persians
• The unification of Rome after 60 years of civil war

The use of over 1 million small tiles to make the Alexander Mosaic allowed its creator to

• depict a disorganized scene that overwhelms the viewer
• model the anatomy of of the figures naturalisticly
• modify and transport the composition easily
• reduce the figures into abstract forms

Which of the following answers does NOT describe the setting in which this would have been placed?

• Surrounded by images of the gods in the afterlife
• Resting on a podium
• Surrounded by banqueting scenes
• Tomb

The pose of the figures suggests that they are

• Sleeping
• Banqueting
• Praying
  
• Dead

Etruscan architecture is largely known to us today through the

• Writings of Vitruvius, a Roman
• Excavations at Pompeii
• Books of Palladio
• Descriptions made by Greek historians

This building is Etruscan.  The following features identify it as such EXCEPT 

• The Corinthian Columns
• the Small pediment and large overhanging roof
• the Porch
• no perimeter columns

This work was part of the Temple of Minerva complex.  It was contemporary with which other movement?

• Archaic Greece
• Classical Greece
• Hellenistic Greece
• Imperial Rome

This is identifiable as Hellenistic for all of the following EXCEPT

• the broken pediment
• the unevenly spaced columns
• the inclusion of a second story tholos
• its free-standing nature