University:
California State University, Northridge
Course:
ART 510 | Methods and Practice of Art History
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2022
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amrinderjeet kaur

Chapter 5 | Ancient Greece | Quiz Answer Key 1. What was the primary focus of much Classical art? a. Portraying ideal beauty in human form 2. As the head of an alliance of city-states, Athens transferred the treasury of which island to the Athenian Acropolis in 454 BCE? a. Delos 3. What artist and what medium are thought to be imitated in this vase painting by the Niobid Painter? a. Panel painting by Polygnotos of Thasos 4. Which culture was both heir and imitator of the art and architecture of Greece? a. Romans 5. What challenge accounts for the asymmetrical plans of the Erechtheion and the Propylaia? a. Uneven terrain 6. What innovative aspect of Hellenistic art does this statue convey? a. Cosmopolitan realism 7. What is the best-preserved example of a round Greek temple of the Classical period? a. The tholos at Delphi 8. Which Athenian statesman had his portrait sculpted by Kresilas? a. Pericles 9. In what year did the Persians sack the Athenian Acropolis? a. 480 BCE 10. Which of the following is NOT a likely source of information regarding now-lost Greek panel paintings? a. Inscriptions 11. What subject, in what medium, inspired the Alexander Mosaic? a. The Battle of Issus painting by Philoxenos of Eretria 12. Which group had the greatest influence on the first truly monumental stone statues of the Greeks? a. Egyptian 13. Which of these groups represents architects in the Periclean building program on the Athenian Acropolis? a. Mnesikles, Kallikrates, Iktinos 14. What do scholars believe was the impetus to develop the red-figure technique? a. Accurately portraying human anatomy 15. What is the term for the pronounced swelling at the middle of the column shaft? a. Entasis 16. Which of the following is NOT a component of a Greek theater such as the one at Epidauros? a. Pylon 17. What vase painter is the acknowledged master of the black-figure technique? a. Exekias 18. Which vase painter utilized the potential of the red-figure technique to break away from the conventional composite profile for human figures? a. Euphronios 19. Who was the sculptor of the Diskobolos (Discus Thrower)? a. Myron 20. In what period does representation of the human form return to Greek art, after the long hiatus following the fall of the Mycenaeans? a. Geometric