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AH Exam 2

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Determine which term applies to the huge, roughly cut stone blocks that formed the massive fortification walls of Mycenaean sites, so called because early peoples did not believe that humans could have erected such structures, only mythical creatures could have done so.
Cyclopean masonry
Due to extensive surviving written records and objects, a great deal of information about the Cycladic culture and its arts exists today.
False
If one had to describe the popular subjects seen on Minoan vessels (vases), it would be scenes or elements related to the sea and its creatures, flowing lines, swirls, patterns, and wave-like designs.
True
Most of the __________ sculptures represent nude women with arms folded across the abdomen, a highly abstract (or schematic) body mostly made up of triangle shapes, and featureless faces that were once painted while the surviving male sculptures depict figures in a more active role, like a musician playing a harp (please fill in the period style).
Cycladic
The famous Treasury of Atreus is a Mycenaean structure called a __________ tomb, a beehive shaped building covered with earth with a dome that was the largest in the world for 1,500 years.
Tholos
The Minoan palace at Knossos, the largest on Crete, is associated with King Minos and the legendary bull-man called the Minotaur.
True
Having become familiar with Mycenaean objects, such as the funerary mask from Grave Circle A, select the term that applies to the technique used by ancient goldsmiths to create this work of art.
Repousse
Cycladic sculptures or statuettes that represent men are nearly the same as that of the female, highly schematic, arms crossed and a body that tapers from exceptionally broad shoulders to tiny feet.
False
Minoan mural paintings were done or painted in a method called __________.
Fresco
The Mycenaeans used an architectural method for spanning passageways called corbeling or corbeled arches.
True
Alexander the Great was the ruler associated with the style or period called Archaic in the visual arts.
False
Among Greek vase shapes, which one is a two-handled vessel for storing honey, olive oil, water or wine?
Amphora
Greek Geometric amphora originally functioned as grave markers.
True
In classical Greek architecture, what column order is considered the oldest, simplest, masculine order?
Doric
Exekias, a noted Classical Greek sculptor, is credited with the development of the Greek "canon of proportions."
False
Greek art is divided into various stages or "styles," which one is most closely associated with artworks that exhibit emotional intensity, drama, energetic compositions, violent movement, and an expanded range of subjects?
Hellenistic
Having become familiar with Greek sculpture, select the term that applies to the depiction of a human figure in which one part is turned in opposition to another, as in how the artist depicted the weight shift from one leg to another.
Contrapposto
Among the famous buildings of the Acropolis, the __________, likely designed by Iktinos and Kallikrates was lavishly decorated by a team of sculptors lead by Phidias and housed the gold-and-ivory "Athena Parthenos."
Parthenon
In order to reduce cost, weight and possible distortions, the Greeks hollow-cast large bronze statues by the "cire-perdue" or "lost-wax" method.
True
The term kouros (kouroi, plural) refers to life-size statues of young men during the Late Classical period that share some Egyptian traits, such as the pose, but differ significantly in that they are nude and liberated from the stone block.
False
Etruscan earthen burial mounds are called tufa.
False
Etruscan temples were primarily constructed using what type of material?
Wood (timber), sun-dried mud brick, tile and terracotta
Etruscan tomb paintings are dominated by what type of subject matter?
Revelers/banquet scenes
Although historians describe the history of Etruscan art into periods that mirror those of Greek art, subjects, like the "reclining couple" sarcophagus have no parallels in Greece since Etruscan women could attend events, like symposia and share a banqueting couch with their husbands.
True
Etruscan architects designed temples that exhibited various influences, such as Greek prototypes. Which term below would be applied to the type or column order that Etruscans preferred?
Tuscan
If you were to visit an Etruscan necropolis, you would see that each tumulus stood over one or more subterranean multi-chambered tombs cut out of the dark, local limestone called...
Tufa
The term "granulation" refers to the fusing of tiny balls of metal, or granules, to a metal surface, as seen in an Etruscan fibula (a kind of safety pin or clasp).
True
What is the name of a composite creature, a Greek invention of a lion's head and body combined with a snake and a goat, that an Etruscan artist manufactured skillfully in bronze?
Chimera
Eventually, the Etruscans declined in power and all of Italy was Romanized by 89 BCE with art reflecting a more Roman style, as in the sculpted image of Aule Metele, an Etruscan magistrate.
True
Late Etruscan architecture is noted for the widespread use of which of the following elements?
Stone arches
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