AP Art History : Answering other questions about Ancient Greek and Roman architecture
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Example Question #231 : 3 D Art
Triumphal Roman arches were made to celebrate and depict the success of leaders in __________.
war
sporting events
debates
elections
war
Roman triumphal columns were massive structures erected in the city of Rome to celebrate massive victories in battle against enemies. These arches were huge structures with minute details of the battle's events and signifiers of the people who were defeated. These triumphal arches were used as models for many later arches in European history, such as the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
Example Question #32 : Ancient Through Medieval Architecture
Art made from cutting a shallow impression in a surface to create a small raising effect is called __________.
molding
bas-relief
lifecasting
whittling
bas-relief
Bas-relief a very ancient artistic form. Bas-relief, from the French for "low relief," is a sculpture that leaves a background in the medium, carving only a portion of the front of the image into the stone being used. Bas-relief was first developed by the Ancient Egyptians, and widely used in Classical Greece and Rome.
Example Question #33 : Ancient Through Medieval Architecture
Which list of Greek sculptures is in correct chronological order?
Dying Warrior, Kouros, Kritios Boy, Laocoon and His Sons
Dying Warrior, Laocoon and His Sons, Kritios Boy, Kouros
Kouros, Kritios Boy, Dying Warrior, Laocoon and His Sons
Kouros, Dying Warrior, Kritios Boy, Laocoon and His Sons
Kouros, Dying Warrior, Kritios Boy, Laocoon and His Sons
Both Kouros (c. 600 BCE) and Dying Warrior from the Temple of Aphaia (500-490 BCE) are works of Archaic Greek sculpture. Kritios Boy is from 480 BCE and is an early work of the Classical period. Laocoon and His Sons (c. first century CE) is from the late Hellenistic period.
Example Question #34 : Ancient Through Medieval Architecture
The Temple of Athena Nike, part of the Acropolis in Athens, is built in which architectural style?
Doric
Corinthian
Byzantine
Ionic
Ionic
The Ionic order was named after the region of Ionia, a smattering of islands between Greece and Asia Minor (modern day Turkey), which were settled by Greeks in roughly the seventh century BCE. While the Ionians were there, they adapted Greek architecture into a simpler form, with more slender columns and less ostentatious ornamentation. This architectural form spread through mainland Greece, with the Temple of Athena Nike, at the entrance to the Acropolis in Athens, being an early example and the first Ionic building on the Acropolis.
Example Question #41 : Ancient Through Medieval Architecture
What Bronze Age city is both Europe's oldest city and the original home of the Minotaur?
Athens
Knossus
Thebes
Syracuse
Knossus
Knossus is one of the most important sites in European art history, and one of the first studied for many scholars in basic art history. This question is helpful because it teaches while it asks: most students can recall or relate Knossus with the memorable Minotaur, but often do not correlate it with the Bronze Age or with being Europe's oldest city.
Example Question #42 : Ancient Through Medieval Architecture
Who is the figure at the top of the Column of Trajan?
An unnamed Roman soldier
St. Peter
Trajan
Julius Caesar
The god Jupiter
St. Peter
The figure at the top of the Column of Trajan is actually St. Peter. It was previously a statue of Trajan himself, but the statue went missing in the Middle Ages. It was replaced with the current bronze statue of St. Peter by Pope Sixtus V in 1587.
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