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WorksheetsWestern Classical Painting
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
This artwork depicts a goddess reclines in a cockle shell after her birth from the sea foam. She is accompanied the winged love-god Eros (Roman Cupid) and a Nereid-nymph riding a dolphin. The goddess wears a necklace, tiara-crown and billowing cloak.
Aphrodite (fresco)
Judgment of Paris
Tomb of the Diver
Pitsa Panel
The dominant features in the painting were large animals native in the region. It was discovered on 12 September 1940 and given statutory historic monument protection. The painting has nearly 2,000 figures composed mainly of animals, human figures and abstract design.
Court of Empress Theodora
Head of Alexander
Lady of the Unicorn Tapestry
Cave of Lascaux
A Roman floor mosaic originally from the House of the Faun in Pompeii (an alleged imitation of a Philoxenus of Eretria or Apelles' painting) that dates from circa 100 BC.
Mosaic Dionysus on a Tiger
Mosaic Battle of Alexander and Darius at Issus
Mosaic Skeleton of a Cup Bearer
Mosaic Head of Alexander
This artwork is from the North transept, about 1230 Stained glass -color glass used to form decorative or pictorial designs windows were created to transform the vast stone interiors with warm and glowing color and at the same time to instruct Christians in their faith.
Tomb of the Diver
Pitsa Panel
Hieroglyphics
Rose Window
This panel shows solemn and formal, with golden halo, crown and jewels, and a group of court women as well as eunuchs.
Court of Empress Theodora
Head of Alexander
Lady of the Unicorn Tapestry
Cave of Lascaux
This masterpiece was found by Mario Napoli in June of 1968, near the city of Paestum located in Magna Graecia. An only example of Greek wall painting from the Orientalizing, Archaic, or Classical period to survive in entirety. The paintings were done in the fresco style. .
Rose Window
Tomb of the Diver in Paestrum
Lady of the Unicorn Tapestry
Hieroglyphics
A character of the ancient Egyptian writing system.
Aphrodite (fresco)
Pitsa Panel
Hieroglyphics
Cave of Lascaux
These panels tablets are a group of painted wooden tablets found near Corinthia. They are the earliest surviving examples of Greek panel painting.
Judgment of Paris
Pitsa Panel
Rose Window
Hieroglyphics
Commonly interpreted as depicting the five senses – taste, hearing, sight, smell, and touch. What is the name of this painting?
Pitsa Panel
Lady of the Unicorn Tapestry
Court of Empress Theodora
Judgment of Paris
A story from Greek mythology, which was one of the events that led up to the Trojan War and to the foundation of Rome, what is the name of this artwork
Judgment of Paris
Tomb of the Diver
Rose Window
Pitsa Panel
It is an art process where an image is produced by arranging together small colored pieces of hard material such as stone, tile or glass.
Tempera
Fresco
Mosaic
Encaustic
It is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting becomes an integral part of the wall.
Encaustic
Fresco
Kerch Style painting
Mosaic
It is a system of writing that employs characters in the form of pictures.
Hieroglyphics
Tempera
Kerch style
Fresco
It is a method of painting with colored pigments dispersed in an emulsion miscible with water, typically egg yolk.
Encaustic
Fresco
Panel Painting
Tempera
It is a painting made on a flat panel made of wood, either a single piece, or a number of pieces joined together.
Kerch style
Encaustic
Panel Painting
Fresco
