ARH 100: STUDY QUESTIONS
Examination 1
1. List three stylistic traits of Paleolithic painting.
2. List three stylistic traits of Neolithic painting.
3. List three subjects found in Paleolithic painting.
4. List three new art and craft media of the Neolithic period.
5. List the first or oldest structural system other than single upright stones or solid walls.
6. _________________a stepped pyramid of mud brick, used by Sumerians and the Assyrians as a sacred site (that
served as a platform for a temple).
7. Name two classifications of sculpture as viewed by observers.
8. Name two classifications of reliefs.
9. Name two techniques of low reliefs.
10. Name two classifications of paintings.
11.______________ a stone coffin.
12. Name three types of tombs in Egypt during the Old Kingdom.
13. ____________________ a row of columns.
14. ____________________ a term describing the position assumed by the human body when the weight is borne on one leg
while the other is relaxed, as in The Spear Bearer.
15. ____________________ an area elevated above adjacent rooftops, usually to allow light into the interior and it has
windows on the upper walls.
16. ____________________the upper part of an architectural order.
17. ________,___________,___________ the three parts of number 16.
18._________,___________,___________ the three Greek orders.
19. ____________,____________,___________ the three rooms of a large Greek temple.
20. ____________, ____________, __________ three painting media of the Greeks.
21. List four stylistic traits in Greek Archaic Sculpture.
22. List four stylistic traits in Greek Classic Sculpture.
23. List four stylistic traits in Greek Hellenistic Sculpture.
24. List four styles of Roman painting.
25. __________ a central urban space that has a clear sequence of public and sacred spaces along an axis.
26. List two types of Roman domiciles.
27. List four stylistic traits in Roman sculpture that differ from Classic Greek sculptures.
28. _____________ a circular or oval building with tiered seats for sports and entertainment in ancient Rome.
29. List four parts of a Roman temple.
30. _______________ a half-round decorative column attached to a wall.
31. _______________ a flat, shallow decorative version of a column attached to a wall.
32. _______________ the most important and largest civic building in Rome used for public administration.
33. List four parts of this administration building (of number 32).
34.________________ important portrait subject reserved only for emperors.
35.________________a technique of painting directly on a plaster wall or ceiling.
36. _________________the vehicle for the plaster wall painting (number 35).
37._________________ the most common type of roof, formed by two planes that slope downward from a central
beam, such as in the Parthonon.
38._______________ a means of construction in which an opening, often semicircular, is spanned by a series of wedgeshaped stones.
39.________________ an architectural structural system that can be understood as a 360 degree vault.
40. List three types of vaults used by Romans, Early Christians, and Byzantines.
41 __________________individual pieces of material used in a mosaic.
42___________________term for a temple plan with an exterior peristyle.
43___________________ the horizontal beam spanning an opening.
44___________________ an interior hall of rows of columns or posts as in Egyptian temples or mosques.
45 List the three divisions of an Ionic column.
46____________________the top, center voussoir of an arch.
47____________________a fortified citadel that served as the site for temples and other important buildings.
48__________________the wide central aisle in a religious or civic building.
49.What is a plan? Elevation? Façade? Bilateral symmetry? Content? Formal analysis? Iconography? Medium? Technique?
Composition? Representational? Nonerepresentational? Complementary & analogous colors? Art?