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AP Art History Unit
AP Art hist 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The last queen of Egypt | Cleopatra |
| After Cleopatra died, Egypt became... | A Roman province |
| Egyptian dynasties 3 through 6, c. 2686-2181 BCE | Old Kingdom |
| Egyptian dynasties 11 through 13, c. 2055-1650 BCE | Middle Kingdom |
| Egyptian dynasties 18 through 20, c. 1539-1077 BCE | New Kingdom |
| Khufu, Khafre, Menkaure dynasty+kingdom | Fourth dynasty Old kingdom |
| In site, in its original location (definition) | In Situ |
| Collection of most influencial and significant works | Canon |
| Hall where columns go all the way around perimeter | Peristyle hall |
| In a composition, it's a horizontal band with ground lines | Register |
| What is the significance of the white temple being white? | Represents purity/divinity |
| Purpose of votive figures | Worship gods in place of people |
| Materials imported for Standard of Ur | Lapis, limestone |
| Size represents power and strength | Hierarchy of scale |
| What God bestows Hammurabi with power and laws on the Code of Hammurabi Stele | Shamash, god of the sun |
| What is the best preserved ancient legal text in history? | The Code of Hammurabi |
| What culture is the Code of Hammurabi from? | Babylon |
| An Apadana is the Persian version of a | Hypostyle Hall |
| What is the purpose of an Apadana/Hypostyle hall? | Grandeose place to meet gods |
| Relief carvings of people holding hands in ____ represent ___ | Persepolis Terrace, Unity |
| Mesopotamian protector. Human-bird-lion hybrid | Lamassu |
| How many legs does the lamassu sculpture have? | Five |
| Why does the lamassu have five legs? | Twisted perspective |
| Series of connected arches that form a tunnel. Wide space w/ vaulted ceiling | Barrel Vault |
| Most sacred temple on top of ziggurat, contains statues, offerings | Cella |
| Stone structure built for defense, high walls to withstand a seige | Citadel |
| Independent, sovereign city + surrounding farm lands, each dedicated to one god | City State |
| Sumerian-invented writing system. Press a triangular stylus into clay tablet | Cuneiform |
| Incised cylindrical stone rolled into clay tablets- signature, worn around neck, buried/grave good | Cylinder seal |
| Printmaking process where metal/stone plate has incised carving. Inked+stamped | Intaglio |
| Band of horizontal design on composition, separated by ground lines. indicates organized society. | Register |
| Metal sheet with design hammered into surface | Repousse |
| Great religious structures that kept workers busy to quell revolts | Ziggurat |
| Mesopotamia/"Ancient Near East" Society 3000-2300 BCE. Independent city-states, ziggurats + cellas | Sumerians |
| Mesopotamia/"Ancient Near East" Society 2300-2150 BCE. World's first empire. Sargon I, Narum-sin. Steles | Akkadians |
| Mesopotamia/"Ancient Near East" Society 2150-2000 BCE. Great Ziggurat of Ur | Neo-Sumerians |
| Mesopotamia/"Ancient Near East" Society 2000-1600 BCE. Sack Babylon and Elam. War against Ramses | Hittites |
| Mesopotamia/"Ancient Near East" Society 1600-1000 BCE. Ashurnasirpal. Sargon II. Ashurbanipal. Citadels, Lamassu | Assyrians |
| Mesopotamia/"Ancient Near East" Society 612-538 BCE. Enslaved Israelites. Nebuchadnezzar | Neo-Babylonians |
| Mesopotamia/"Ancient Near East" Society 538-330 BCE. Persepolis, Apadanas. Darius, Xerxes | Persians |
| How many Apollo 11 stones are there? | Seven |
| Purpose of the Venus of Willendorf | Fertility totem |
| Where was Venus of Willendorf found? | Austria |
| Is Venus of Willendorf Paleolithic, Mesolithic, or Neolithic? | Paleolithic |
| Order of Stone Age eras | Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic |
| Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine purpose | Fertility totem |
| Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine location found | Tequixquiac, Mexico |
| Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine Paleo, meso, neo | Paleolithic |
| Stonehenge Paleo, meso, neo | Neolithic |
| Apollo 11 stones paleo, meso, neo | Paleolithic |
| Apollo 11 stones location found | Namibia, Africa |
| Seated scribe location found | Saqqara, Egypt |
| Seated scribe kingdom, dynasty | Old Kingdom, 5th dynasty |
| Seated scribe currency location/museum | Louvre |
| Running horned woman paleo, meso, neo | Paleolithic |
| Running horned woman location found | Tassili N'ajjer/Algeria, Africa |
| Hall of Bulls stone age | Paleolithic |
| Hall of Bulls location | Lascaux, France |
| Stonehenge location | Salisbury Plain, England |
| What are the small stones between the circles of Stonehenge thought to be? | Gravestones |
| "__+__" architecture, Stonehenge | Post and Lintel |
| Possible purposes of Stonehenge | Calendar, temple, burial |
| What is the purpose of Seated Scribe | Serdab |
| Does Seated Scribe follow canonical proportions? | No |
| What is the pose called in the Running Horned Woman? | Pinwheel formation |
| What do horns symbolize? | Power |
| What might the Running Horned Woman be goddess of? | Weather |
| Purpose of Bushel with Ibex Motifs | Gravegood |
| Bushel with Ibex Motifs Paleo, meso, neo | Neolithic |
| Bushel with Ibex Motifs location found | Susa, Iran |
| Bushel with Ibex Motifs current location/museum | Louvre |
| Artifact found by Jacques de Morgan | Bushel with Ibex Motifs |
| What is an Ibex? | Goat |
| What are the symbols of the Bushel with Ibex Motifs (not including the goat/Ibex) | Pictograms |
| Anthropomorphic Stele stone age | Neolithic |
| Anthropomorphic Stele location found | Ha'il, Saudi Arabia |
| Jade Cong nation and culture | Chinese liangzhu |
| Jade Cong stone age | Neolithic |
| Ambum Stone location | Papua New Guinea |
| Ambum Stone Age | Neolithic |
| Ambum Stone is in the shape of a ____ | Mortar and Pestle |
| Ambum Stone tribe | Enga |
| Belief that objects have souls or spirits | Animism |
| T'latilco Female Figurine stone age | Neolithic |
| T'latilco location | Mexico |
| White Temple+Ziggurat location (modern) | Uruk, Iraq |
| White Temple+Ziggurat society | Sumerian |
| Statuettes of two worshippers location | Tell Asmar, Iraq |
| Statuettes of two worshippers society | Sumerian |
| Statuettes of two worshippers purpose | Votive offering |
| Statuettes of two worshippers eyes made of shell and ___ | Black Limestone |
| Ceremonial feather skirts in all ___ art | Sumerian |
| Standard of Ur location found | Ur, Iraq |
| Standard of Ur society | Sumerian |
| Palette of King Narmer dynasty | Predynastic |
| Palette of King Narmer location found | Hierakonpolis, Egypt |
| What does no shoes mean | Sacred |
| 3 positions of Egyptian royalty | Sitting, standing, smiting |
| Canonical proportions unit | Cubit |
| What shape is the Palette of King Narmer in | Ieb heart |
| First piece of art with hieroglyphics | Palette of King Narmer |
| Two lions with necks intertwined symbolism | Unity |
| Whose pyramid is THE Great Pyramid | Khufu |
| Great pyramids kingdom and dynasty | Old Kingdom, Fourth dynasty |
| What constellation are the Great Pyramids aligned with | Orion's belt |
| What are the Great Pyramids made of | Limestone |
| Lapita terracotta fragments location found | Santa Cruz, Solomon Islands |
| Lapita terracotta fragments stone age | Neolithic |
| Who is the queen in Menkaure and Queen | Khamarebnety |
| Menkaure and Queen dynasty | Fourth dynasty |
| Menkaure and Queen location found | Giza, Egypt |
| Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut kingdom, dynasty | New Kingdom, Eighteenth dynasty |
| Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut location | Deir el-Bahri, Egypt |
| Mortuary Temple that was carved into cliff | Temple of Hatshepsut |
| Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and three daughters kingdom, dynasty, period | New Kingdom, Eighteenth dynasty, Amarna Period |
| Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and three daughters location | Tell el-Amarna |
| King Tut's death mask location | Valley of Kings |
| Valley of Kings location | Thebes, Egypt |
| King Tut kingdom | New Kingdom |
| Hu-Nefer Book of the Dead location | Thebes, Egypt |
| The Book of the Dead kingdom | New Kingdom |
| Pylon Temple, Temple of Amen-Re location | Karnak and Luxor |
| Karnak and Luxor temple kingdom | New Kingdom |
| Largest religious building people in the world | Temple of Amen-Re |
| Hypostyle hall at ___ | Temple of Karnak and Luxor |
| Stone age 30,000 BCE-12,000 BCE. Cave art. Sculptures are small and portable. Hunter-gatherers | Paleolithic |
| Stone age 12,000 BCE-7,500 BCE. End of last ice age. | Mesolithic |
| Stone age 7,500 BCE-3,000 BCE. ____ Revolution: Agriculture, domestication, irrigation, fishing boats, fertile cresent, pottery | Neolithic |
| When and where are human being thought to have intentionally created art | 40,000 BCE, Europe |
| Paleolithic art most often depicts what subjects? | Humans and animals |
| Longest continuously occupied city in the world | Jericho |
| Neolithic Town without streets | Catal Huyuk |
| Adjective often used to describe large standing stones and architecture built of large stones | Megalithic |
| A single standing stone | Monolith |
| Monolith stood upright to mark place of burial | Menhir |
| Circle of standing stones | Cromlech |
| Piles of dirt or clay to create large circles or mounds in significant places | Earthen mounds |
| A single standing stone that has been incised, a monument to an important victory in battle | Stele |
| Three-stone creation, seen at stonehenge | trilithon |
| Spans distance above opening of trilithon | Lintel |
| Support Lintel on the sides | post |
| Stone "house of the dead," the body would be buried under the whole covered with an earthen mound | Dolmen |
| Neolithic decorated religious bull skulls- religious icon | Bucrania |
| To cut into or sculpt into stone or clay, create relief carving | Incise |
| To have the characteristics of an animal, or, in the form of an animal | Zoomorphic |
| Which one of the seven wonders of the ancient world was designed by Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon? | Hanging Gardens |
| Islamic art forbids representation of anything with a ____ | face |
| Ambum Stone material | Greywacke |
| Kind of tomb, Arabic for "bench", often graverobbed | Mastaba |
| All Egyptian temples and tomb face___ | East |
| Fluting on columns was designed by ____ to represent ____ | Imhotep, papyrus |
| Applying and drying plaster before painting on a wall or ceiling | Fresco Secco |
| Bricks stacked on diagonal | Ashlar masonry |
| Part of pharoah's palace that housed women and children | Harem |
| Column in shape of woman's body | Caryatid |
| Column in shape of man's body | Atlantid |
| Column in shape of God Ositis | Osirid |
| Hieroglyph that represents living world to dead, temple of Horus | Pylon |
| Portrait sculpture made for tomb. marble, more realistic, middle kingdom | Reserve head |
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