Ancient Art History 2

The images on the Olympic vases were painted in a silhouette-like style called what?

• orange figure

• red figure

• gold figure

• black figure

In Greek art, men are typically portrayed with exaggerated body features such as overly-buff thigh muscles. However, they didn't actually look this way in real life. What is the reason for the exaggerated paintings?

• The Greeks were uncomfortable with their real bodies.

• It made them feel more powerful.

• The paintings represented the Greeks' idea of the perfect ideal body.

• The artists didn't know what the athletes actually looked like.

Almost all ancient Greek marble statues and friezes were once brightly colored.

• true

• false

The way this figure is standing with more weight on one leg and the torso twisted somewhat is called a _____ stance.

• entasis

• contrapposto

• foreshortening

• kore

The Column of Trajan was built to commemorate his victory over the Dacians, and does so by

• Gold leaf decorations  
• A spiral relief narrative all the way up the column
• Panels on the base proclaiming his victories  
• A chaotic battle scene with Romans and Goths

Official portraits of Augustus Caesar portray him  

• As an aging man of wisdom
• As a wrinkled statesman  
• A Godlike, youthful figure
• As a humble serf

What two very important things allowed the Romans to create an architecture of space rather than an architecture of form?  

• The arch and highways  
• The arch and concrete  
• Concrete and the groin vault  
• Concrete and aqueducts

It is a temporary art forms that are applied on the skin using dyes.

• Mehndi

• Tattoo

• Heinna

• all of the above

In your own words, describe Ancient Indian Art.

Forming cloth by interlacing strands of fiber

• architecture

• sculpture

• pottery

• weaving