Art History

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What tendency is featured in the cave paintings in Altamira and Lascaux?

Elaborate displays of animals with no landscape.

Among the following, which is the most crucial reason why the Uruk Vase (aka. Warka Vase) is today considered a significant piece in art history?

It is one of the earliest examples of pictorial narrative.

Which of the following testifies to an important difference in art history between the production of the paintings in Lascaux (France) and in Santa Cruz (Argentina)?

Painting techniques

Urbanization (i.e., the emergence and development of cities) in Mesopotamia is a process detected by evidence of:

Development of temples.

Which statement about this piece is true?

It eliminated the use of registers that were standard in pictorial narratives.

What is the so-called Burney Relief an important example of in art history?

It is an example of mass production and circulation of artworks in ancient times.

Which statements about "The Restored Human Skull" or the "Head of an Akkadian Ruler" is false?

The "skull" was meant to be publicly shown while the "head" was an intimate portrait of a ruler.

Which of the following statements explaining The Colossus Winged Lion's conceptual hybridity is false:

It represents the military power of Babylonian monarchy.

This term is formally used in Art History to call the horizontal segments depicting different levels of society in several artworks included in this first part of the course:

Registers

A stele is:

A carved stone slab.

Which of these statements about this piece is false?

It intended to be a naturalistic representation of the sitter.

A votive is:

An image or object created as a devotional offering to a deity.

Which of the following is a correct comparison between these two pieces?

Both statues are idealized depictions of each ruler, though one is consistent with the traditional representation of pharaohs, while the other drastically departed from such tradition.

Among these pieces, which contains the clearest representation of the hierarchy or scale?

The so-called Standard of Ur

Which statement is true regarding both The Human-Lion and the Colossus Winged Lion?

None of the listed.

Which sentence is more appropriate for describing the Ziggurat of Ur and the Stepped Pyramid of Djoser in terms of purpose or function?

The Ziggurat hosted a temple while the pyramid surmounted a royal tomb.

The current archeological findings still confirm the scheme of "stylistic development," which means that Stone Age art progressively "evolved" from simple to more sophisticated and accurate painterly representations of living beings.

True

Why are the cave paintings in Santa Cruz (Argentina) so important for art history?

They problematize traditional assumptions about cave painter's gender and age.

Which two statements are true about the Funerary Complex that contains Egypt's first known step pyramid:

A hidden hall was made towards the northern star so the king's soul could join the star., Part of it was apparently designed by a revered polymath whose name is today the first recorded name of an artist or architect in the world.

The Uruk Vase (aka. Warka Vase) has three registers. Select the two correct statements about the second (middle) register of the vase:

It suggests that the vase served as a votive., It depicts a procession carrying containers filled with the earth's abundance.

Identify the two more relevant statements about this piece as an important historical document:

It illustrates how Mesopotamian kingships wanted to publicly issue all-abiding or enduring rules for everyone., It represents the divine legitimation of someone's legal authority.

Which two statements are true about this piece?

It shows formal and iconographic characteristics that remained conventional for several millennia in Egyptian art., It presents a close connection between Horus and the King.

Identify the two more relevant statements about this piece to understand it as a radical example of changes in how stories were told:

The theme and the container of the theme tend to come together., It offers a single scene.

Which two statements are true about this piece or what it shows?

It is a combination of selected memories of events that took place during a long period., This piece is a votive to the god that sees everything from above.

The Uruk Vase (aka. Warka Vase) has three registers. Select the two correct statements about the lower register of the vase:

It is a way of representing fertility and reproduction., It shows the importance of the rivers among Mesopotamian people.

Select two true statements about the use of gender roles in these two pieces.

In one piece, a ruler holds offerings as a sign of balance and justice as the guiding principle of her/his reign., In one piece, as it has been argued, the ruler is depicted as the living manifestation of an androgynous deity.

The people in Jericho produced "human skulls with restored features" because they wanted these objects to function as ______, and placed shells in the eye orbits to _______.

commemoration devices | render the deceased as if they sleep

Ancient and Medieval cultures

Zander Chavez · 49問 · 2年前

Ancient and Medieval cultures