Art History 1- Spring 2011
Art Journals
Directions: Using your new textbook, Art History 4th edition, Vol. 1 by Stokstad & Cothren, answer the
following chapter questions along with your weekly reading. You will need to turn in all 10 journals, stapled
together and TYPED, by Wed., April 27 at the beginning of class. -10 points each day late!
Journal #1- Chapter One
______ of 10 points
1. What is the difference in sculpture in the round and relief sculpture? Give an example of each from the
chapter.
2. What are the possible meanings of cave painting?
3. Explain how Stonehenge may have been created and discuss its possible purpose.
4. Discuss how metalworking evolved in Neolithic culture.
Journal #2- Chapter Two
______ of 10 points
1. What is a Stele? Give an example from the chapter.
2. What are Votive figures? Discuss their purpose and physical description.
3. What are cylinder seals and how are they used? Give an example of a cylinder seal from the chapter.
4. What story is depicted on the sound box of the Great Lyre with Bull’s Head?
Journal #3- Chapter Three
______ of 10 points
1. What was the Narmer Palette? Discuss the imagery on the front and back of the palette.
2. What are the major differences in the mastaba, stepped pyramid and pyramid structures?
3. Discuss how the royal statues, such as Khafre, differed from statues of servants, such as the Butcher.
4. Who was Hatshepsut?
Journal #4- Chapter Four
_______of 10 points
1. What do traces of paint on Cycladic marble figurines reveal?
2. Who discovered the “Palace” complex of Knossos? Why did he call it “Palace” and why do we believe this
may not be a correct term for such a complex?
3. What is a stone rhyton? What is depicted on the Harvester Rhyton?
4. Why was the masonry of Mycenae called “Cyclopean?”
Journal #5- Chapter Five
_______of 10 points
1. What characterizes the Greek Geometric Period? Give an example of artwork from this period.
2. What are the three temple orders? Discuss the major differences in each order.
3. How did color play a part in Greek sculpture? Give an example from the chapter.
4. What is the acropolis? Who convinced the Greeks to rebuild it after the Persian wars?
Journal #6- Chapter Six
_______of 10 points
1. How might Etruscan tomb chambers be decorated? Give two examples of different styles.
2. What are the two stories to Rome’s origins?
3. How were new Roman cities organized?
4. What is the Flavian Amphitheater? What was it’s purpose?
Journal #7- Chapter Seven and Chapter Eight
_______of 10 points
1. What does it mean to be monotheistic?
2. What are catacombs?
3. What are orant figures? Give an example using artwork from the chapter.
4. What is a mosque?
5. What is the Dome of the Rock?
Journal #8- Chapter Nine and Ten
_______of 10 points
1. What is dharma?
2. What is a bodhisattva?
3. Who is Buddha?
4. What does the imagery of the Painted Banner (fig. 10-7) represent?
5. What is the Silk Road?
Journal #9- Chapter Eleven and Twelve
1. What are dogu?
2. What is Shinto?
_______of 10 points
3. What are the marks of a Buddha?
4. What was the first major Mesoamerican art style? What are the key elements of Mesoamerican art?
5. What are some of the achievements the Maya are known for?
Journal #10- Chapter Thirteen and Fourteen
_______of 10 points
1. Some of the earliest iron technology in sub-Saharan African comes from what culture?
2. What 3 criteria make a people “primitive?”
3. What are the purposes of illuminated manuscripts? Give an example of such a manuscript from the chapter.
4. Describe the Animal Style and give an example from the chapter.
5. What are Rune Stones and Picture Stones? Give an example from the chapter.