Prehistoric Art through Medieval

Greek and Roman artists accomplished a realistic style or lifelike images called ____________.

• Severe style

• Trompe l’oeil effects

• Tesserae

• Stylized

Who is the classical scholar and archaeologist, responsible for deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics?

• Simone Martini

• Marcelino de Sautola

• William Faulkner

• Jean-Francois Champollion

__________ used sundried brick in their structures to build cities.

• Greek

• Romans

• Mesopotamians

• Native American

This image below during early classical period in Greek sculpture is best described as ______________________.

What is the predominant art form in Mesopotamia besides architecture that includes scenes of king’s personal courage during hunting expeditions and military exploits?

• Bas relief sculpture

• Caryatids

• Tesserae

• Vase painting

The Greek ideal proportions of their statues symbolized the perfection of these things:

• More literal and realistic images.

• Believe to house powerful spirit, angular, off-balance, and distorted.

• Preserving not only religious teachings but also classical literature.

• Body through athletic endeavor and mind through intellectual debate.

Examples of stepped pyramids are (list all that apply)

• Ziggurat

• Chichén Itzá

• The Louvre (glass pyramid)

• Djoser's pyramid

__________ is the architectural columns of female figures in Greek architecture which sometimes replaced fluted columns.

• Caryatids

• Flying Butresses

• Tracery

• Nave

__________ were considered sacred objects containing the word of God and usually decorated lavishly, so their outward beauty would reflect their sublime content.

• Frieze

• Manuscripts

• Byzantine Mosaics

• Bas-relief

True or false. Byzantine mosaics used opaque marble cubes and the background represented landscapes. Roman Mosaics used reflective glass cubes (large cubes in stylized designs) and background was abstract (sky-blue and gold).

• True

• False