Rebekah Scoggins
Art Appreciation Test #2
Study Guide: Images
Study Guide for Test #2
Images for Slide IDs (will be asked 10)
Hohle Fels Figure. c. 35,000 B.C.E. Carved Mammoth Tusk.
Mask from Mummy Case. Tomb of Tutankhamen. c. 1340 B.C.E. Gold inlaid with enamal and
semiprecious stones.
Euphronios, Krater. c. 515 B.C.E. Terra cotta.
Polykleitos. Spear Bearer (Doryphoros). Roman copy of Greek original. c. 440 B.C.E. Marble
Augustus of Primaporta, c. 20 BCE, Marble.
San Vitale: Empress Theodora. Ravenna, Italy. 526–547. Mosaic.
Byzantine School. Madonna and Child on a Curved Throne. 13th Century. Tempura on Panel.
Masaccio. The Holy Trinity. Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy. 1425. Fresco.
Donatello. David. c. 1425–1430. Bronze.
Sandro Botticelli. Birth of Venus. c. 1480. Tempura on canvas.
Leonardo da Vinci. The Last Supper. Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy. c. 1495–1498.
Fresco.
Michelangelo. The Creation of Adam. Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Vatican, Rome. 1508–1512.
Fresco.
Raphael. Madonna of the Meadow. c. 1505. Oil on board.
Jan van Eyck. The Arnolfini Portrait. 1434. Oil on panel.
Paolo Veronese. Feast in the House of Levi. 1573. Oil on Canvas.
Artemisia Gentileschi. Judith and the Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes. c. 1625. Oil on
Canvas.
Diego Velázquez. Las Meninas. 1665. Oil on Canvas.
Jan Vermeer. The Kitchen Maid. c. 1658. Oil on Canvas.
Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Happy Accidents of the Swing. 1767. Oil on canvas.
Fan Kuan, Travelers Among Mountains and Streams, Early 11th Century. Ink on Silk.
Terms to Know and Understand
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Paleolithic
Neolithic
hierarchic scale
Krater
o Red figure style
kouros
contrapposto
capitals
Doric column
Ionic column
Corinthian column
colonnade
metopes
pediment
portico
oculus
coffers
iconoclasts
icons
Chi-Rho (XP)
Renaissance
Humanism
Chiaroscuro
Genre painting
Baroque
o Light Source
o Foreshortening
Rococo
General Concepts to Study
1. Make sure you know the focuses of the different eras/movements: Greece, Roman,
Medieval/Middle Ages, Italia Renaissance, Northern Renaissance, and Baroque.
2. Think about:
a. The different functions of the art works.
b. The kind of comparisons that can be made between the different works, such as
the comparison between Raphael’s Madonna of the Meadow and the Byzantine
School’s Madonna and Child on a Curved Throne.
c. The main characteristics of each era/movement listed in #1 and ways to explain
how works represent each one.
3. Know general information about other art works that are not on the Slide ID list. I will
ask short answer and essay questions about art that we discussed in class that are not
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listed on the slide ID list. I will not expect you to know the kind of information I ask in
the slide IDs, but you will need to know some things about them.
Know how religion or ritual played a part in each era. For example, the Egyptian burial
tradition and its religious connotations, Greek and Roman uses of the temple, Middle
Ages/Byzantine use of the church and images/icons, Italian Renaissance mixture of
human and spiritual, etcetera.
The way in which the visual elements (line, color, form, shape, etcetera) play a role in art
works. For example, I may ask: how does line and color play a role in Caravaggio’s The
Calling of Saint Matthew?
Think about the changes over time across medium and or/movements in term of the
visual, method of creation/construction (how it was sculpted/painted), and purpose.
Compare the differences between similar or successive movements, such as Paleolithic
and Neolithic, Mesopotamia and Egypt, Greek and Roman, Italian Renaissance and
Northern Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo, etcetera.
As a general rule, if we talked about a concept or a work a long time in class, it is likely that I
will ask a question about it.