Extra Credit Assignment - Summative #1

Match the following

• The Dome of the Rock

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• Hunters in the Snow

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• Aka Elephant Mask

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• Codex of Mendoza

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• The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa

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Match the following

• The Oath of the Horatii

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• Merovingian Looped Fibulae

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• The Stonebreakers

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• Fallingwater

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• Bamiyan Buddhas

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The Catacomb of Priscilla was designed by its original founders to provide a

• burial place for members of the early Christian community

• refuge for early Christian families at times of religious persecution

• secret location to baptize early Christian converts

• place of worship for large congregations of early Cnristians

Works like Cranach's Allegory of Law and Grace would have appealed to a wide audience because

• People believed that buying them would improve their chance of salvation

• People believed that they were holy objects that possessed healing properties

• Prints on paper were novelty and therefore considered to be status symbols

• woodcuts were inexpensive and could be reproduced in large quantities

After the original dome of the Hagia Sophia collapsed in 558 CE, its architects responded by

• removing many of the building's original windows

• using lighter materials in the reconstructed dome

• decreasing the height of the dome and adding columns

• increasing the height of the dome and adding buttresses

The Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building shares which of the following design characteristics with the Seagram Building?

• A Steel Frame Structure

• Cast-iron Ornamentation

• The integration of a public plaza

• An oblique entryway

Marcel Duchamp displayed a urinal upside down on a pedestal

• to honor exceptional craftsmanship, engineering, and construction techniques

• to celebrate its aesthetic qualities, as an example of form following function

• as a critique of modern capitalist consumerism

• to invite the viewer to see a ready-made object in a new way

The artist who created the Benin bronze wall plaque from Oba's palace used which of the following techniques to show the importance of the Oba?

• Linear Perspective

• Scarification

• Continuous narration

• Hierarchical scale

A lukasa from the Mbudye Society of the Luba people serves as a

• representation of the divine cosmos

• conceptual map of royal history

• ceremonial paddle carried in processions

• tool to impress images on bread made for a ritual meal

Which of the following features of the Great Mosque of Isfahan is typical of Persian architecture?

• Iwans

• Pediments

• Multilobed arches

• Stained glass