Monumental Architecture and Art

What is a Monument?

• Of or suitable for a ceremony held in connection with the burial or cremation of a dead person.

• A building dedicated to religious ceremonies or worship.

• A structure, such as a building or sculpture, erected as a memorial.

• A three-dimensional form or likeness sculpted, modeled, carved, or cast in material such as stone, clay, wood, or bronze.

What does Funerary mean?

• Of or suitable for a ceremony held in connection with the burial or cremation of a dead person.

• The body of written works of a language, period, or culture.

• The conscious use of the imagination in the production of objects intended to be contemplated or appreciated as beautiful, as in the arrangement of forms, sounds, or words.

• Drawings or inscriptions made on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and so as to be seen by the public.

What is a Temple?

• the destruction of political and sacred religious images or structures

• The humanistic revival of classical art, architecture, literature, and learning that originated in Italy in the 14th century and later spread throughout Europe.

• A solid figure with a polygonal base and triangular faces that meet at a common point.

• A building dedicated to religious ceremonies or worship.

What is a Statue?

• A large amphitheater for public sports events, entertainment, or assemblies.

• A three-dimensional form or likeness sculpted, modeled, carved, or cast in material such as stone, clay, wood, or bronze.

• A solid figure with a polygonal base and triangular faces that meet at a common point.

• The humanistic revival of classical art, architecture, literature, and learning that originated in Italy in the 14th century and later spread throughout Europe.

What is a Colosseum?

• A large amphitheater for public sports events, entertainment, or assemblies.

• A solid figure with a polygonal base and triangular faces that meet at a common point.

• The humanistic revival of classical art, architecture, literature, and learning that originated in Italy in the 14th century and later spread throughout Europe.

• the destruction of political and sacred religious images or structures

What does pyramidal mean?

• the destruction of political and sacred religious images or structures

• A solid figure with a polygonal base and triangular faces that meet at a common point.

• The humanistic revival of classical art, architecture, literature, and learning that originated in Italy in the 14th century and later spread throughout Europe.

• a place or position for the stationing of troops.

What is the Renaissance?

• Drawings or inscriptions made on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and so as to be seen by the public.

• A structure, such as a building or sculpture, erected as a memorial.

• The humanistic revival of classical art, architecture, literature, and learning that originated in Italy in the 14th century and later spread throughout Europe.

• The body of written works of a language, period, or culture.

What does Iconoclasm mean?

• the destruction of political and sacred religious images or structures

• a place or position for the stationing of troops.

• Something intended to celebrate or honor a person or an event.

• A building, place, or institution designed and equipped for viewing astronomical, meteorological, or other natural phenomena.

What is a Fort?

• The body of written works of a language, period, or culture.

• The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre.

• A building, place, or institution designed and equipped for viewing astronomical, meteorological, or other natural phenomena.

• a place or position for the stationing of troops.

What is a Memorial?

• A structure, such as a building or sculpture, erected as a memorial.

• Something intended to celebrate or honor a person or an event.

• A building, place, or institution designed and equipped for viewing astronomical, meteorological, or other natural phenomena.

• Drawings or inscriptions made on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and so as to be seen by the public.