Art 100 - Quiz 5

The Great Mother Goddess

The 25,000-year-old carved figurine, Venus of Willendorf, is associated with

Chauvet Cave - France

The first Paleolithic wall paintings were found in the caves of France and Spain just a short 100 years ago. The most recently discovered paintings, found in 1994 in the _________ , turned out to be the oldest (about 30,000 years old).

Old Stone Age

Paleolithic Period

New Stone Age

Neolithic Period

Rock Engraving

Petroglyph

Neolithic

Stonehenge was erected around 2,000 B.C.E., which we refer to as the _____ period.

Which is NOT true about Paleolithic art?

The cave paintings are not naturalistic (life-like) depictions of animals but rather abstract patterns

Which of the following is NOT related to the ancient civilizations?

Absence of architectural structures

Tigris and Euphrates Rivers valley - in Iraq

All four ancient civilizations emerged in the valleys of the big rivers. Which territory was named Mesopotamia -"the land between the rivers?

Writing System

Sumer was the first civilization in a succession of Mesopotamian peoples/cultures.
The ancient Sumerians developed the world's first wheel, plow and _______.

Ziggurats

The Sumerians worshiped their nature gods in shrines set atop gigantic platforms called ________, which were made of sun-baked bricks (core) and fired bricks (facing).

Which is NOT true about Egyptian art?

It is literature, and not the tombs, that is the main source of our knowledge about ancient Egypt.

Tombs

Egyptian pyramids were built to serve as:

Tutankhamen

Mask from Mummy Case was found in the tomb of which pharaoh?

Earthenware Beaker

Iran

Burial Urn

China

Murujuna Petroglyphs

Australia

Deer and Hands - Las Manos Cave

Argentina

Lyre - from "The King's Grave

Wood, gold, lapis lazuli, shell and silver

Head of Akkadian Ruler

Bronze

King Menkaura and Queen Khamerernebty

Sandstone - Greywacke

Wall Painting from the Tomb of Nebamun

Paint on dry plaster

Stonehenge

Neolithic Europe - England

The Great Pyramids of Giza

Egypt, Old Kingdom (c. 2500 B.C.E)

Ziggurat of Ur-Nammu

Mesopotamia - Sumer

Funeral temple of Queen Hatshepsut

Egypt, New Kingdom (c. 1450 B.C.E.)