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The first technological stage when stone was used as tools.

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Creatures with animal heads and human bodies

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An anatomical exaggeration that suggests fertility found in Austria

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Place where cave paintings estimated to be 16,000 years old were found.

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A large stone which has been used to construct a structure or monument. They were symbols of community and served to focus divinity.

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Simple boxlike chambers during the neolithic area that was made up of several upright slabs with a more of less flat stone top

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Large man-made mounds often covering passages or coffin graves. These are made out of stone and are often engraved.

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Burial place for Egyptian Royalty

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A straight standing stone, topped with another forming a T shape

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Two forms of seals during the Sumerian period

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A system of writing typified by the use of characters formed by the arrangement of small wedge-shaped elements

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Artificial mountain made of tiered rectangular layers which rose in number from one to seven in the course of Mesopotamian history

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A stone that provided the key to decoding the hierogylphic system

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Greco-Roman period in Egypt where Christianity was declared the State religion.

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Material used in ancient Egypt to build row houses for the general population

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The standard tomb type in Early Egypt, it was a rectangular brick or stone structure with sloping sides erected over an underground burial chamber

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Guardians of the palaces in Assyrian art. Winged with human--headed bulls.

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Cow goddess of the Ancient Egyptians

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The largest Egyptian pyramid and one of the seven wonders of the ancient world that is still in existence

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Part of and Egyptian Cult Temple. A hall that contains the central double row of columns higher that those at the sides, raising the roof's central section and creating a clerestory.

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The characteristics of the male characters found in Egyptian Hieroglyphics

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The first great female monarch in Ancient Egypt

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The law of frontality decrees that...

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The sacred beetle motif in Ancient Egypt represented...

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What type of Capital is the following?

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What kind of Ancient Egypt capital is the following?

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A palace in Crete during the Minoan period which was a rambling structure built against the upper slopes across the top of a low hill

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Fortified palaces, its construction was believed to not have been made by mere humans and attributed to the mythical Cyclopses

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Square shaft of stone with a pyramidal top used as a monument

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A Greek order with was a variant of the Ionic with its plinth and fluted shaft and its distinctive ornate capital

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What part of an Order is letter A?

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What are B, C, D?

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A greek drinking cup

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Means "maiden" in greek, it refers to a statue of a female figure

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Means "counterbalance". This style in the structure of Greek statues tilts the sculptures, breaking the fronatility seen in earlier ones.

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The war during Ancient Greece which left Athens defeated and drained of resources, and ushered in a period of political unrest in Greece.

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Period in Greek art wherein sculptures exhibit exaggerated forms and emotional intensity

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A place of assembly in ancient Greek city-states

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A Greek council chamber which served as a court house or meeting place for the town council

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An ancient Greek wrestling school

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The core of a greek temple

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Lowest part of an entablature in a Greek order. The main weigh-bearing and weight-distributing element

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A technique applied on columns which do not taper in a straight line, but bulge outward about one-third of the way up from the base

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The acting area behind a greek orchestra

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Greek columns shaped into male figures

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A Greek temple dedicated to Athena. It had a monumental propylon on the north, and a famous porch of caryatids on the Temple of Nike

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A greek stadium for horse and chariot races

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A Greek flask for storing and pouring oil

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Term used for a robed standing youth during the Archaic period

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He formed the canon or proportions during the Greek classical period

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Which of the following is a kanthanos?

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Which is a lekythos?

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What is the name of this?

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Which is a volute krater?

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The Egyptian Falcon god; son of Isis and Osiris

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High portals on each side of the orchestra

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A greek senate house for elected officials

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A flat, curved element with rounded sides found in the shaft of a doric order

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A greek moulding that's a concave surface approximating the interior curve of a quarter circle

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A greek moulding that looks like an S-shaped curved surface that starts and ends horizontally; usually with honeysuckle motif

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The following were true about the Romans
I. Their figures were made to look perfect
II. The Early Roman Empire was when the Roman period had an emperor

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Good or true fresco, it was painting on wet plaster

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Established certain rules for standardizing the Greek orders for architecture

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The combination of an Ionic shaft and a Corinthian capital

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Roman house of the middle class

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Blocks of flats used as a shop and apartment

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Roman counterpart of the hippodrome

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Building to house the Roman law court; eventually beca,e a hall of justice and commercial exchange

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Which of the following is NOT a part of a thermae?

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A great Roman marble monument constructed during the reign of Augustus

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Whose image is seen in the Pantrokrator?

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An inverted concave triangle that springs from a corner of the square curving up. A characteristic of Byzantine architecture

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This was built as the major cathedral in Constantinople

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Containers of relics or body parts or possessions of saints

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A type of sculpture during the Romanesque period wherein the lunette above the door was ornamented with complex iconography

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A distinct form of decoration aimed at relieving otherwise blank walls

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Where the church starts. This was a portico before the nave for the pentinents

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The appointed place for preaching

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Semicurcular walkway with chapels off its surrounding the sanctuary

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Usually semicircular or polygonal, often vaulted recess, especially the termination of the sanctuary end of the church

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A pilgrimage destination for Paul's pilgrims

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May have invented the Gothic Style when he designed the facade, ambulatory and chapels of the Royal Abbey Church of St. Denis

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A painting technique in which pigments are combined with egg

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Projected carved ornaments in a bud of leaf shape used on the sides of the pinnacles and spires

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The largest among all Gothic churches

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The most respected painter in Florence before Giotto

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A circular window with tracery mullions radiating from a central point

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Building or complex of buildings that houses a room reserved for prayer during the Medieval period

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The period in which Constantine I reigned

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The following is true about the Byzantine period:
I. Naturalism was largely ignored in their paintings
II. The sculptures were for the exterior of the churches

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A larger than life size hollow cast bronze portrayal of a she-wolf that nursed Romulus and Remus

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A monster with a lion's head and body and a serpent's tail. It also has a goat's head that grows out of the lion's left side.

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The following were true about Roman artists
I. Artists in service were known
II. Art forms were accomplished by groups of artists working together

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The concrete invented by the romans

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Mass of masonry built against a wall to resist the pressure of an arch or vault

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Rectangular opening in the atrium

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Family dining room during the Roman period

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Type of illusionism in which the artist's works fools into believing that the painting is part of the real scenery

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A manor located in the countryside during the medieval period

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Mosaic works used on church floors

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This architecture style is characterized by symmetry with ornamental detailing such as pediments, pilasters and Palladian windows

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The stylistic characteristics of its domestic architecture include a ow pitched or flat roof that was usually concealed behind a balustrade; moldings of a low relief and delicate ornamentation

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American president who had great influence on the Federal Style

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Thomas Jefferson's house outside Charlottesville that was influenced by neoclassic style

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The first truly national style in the United States

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Style wherein a new attitude which exalted individualism, subjectivism, irrationalism, imagination and nature-emotions over reasons and senses over intellect

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An English Romantic painter known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedman Vale

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Romanticism painter who painted Liberty Leading the People

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This period set a goal not imitating artistic achievements but the truthful and accurate depiction of the models that nature and contemporary life offer to the artist

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Considered the first avante-garde movement in art

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Blurring of the outline

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Which of the following is a work of Raphael?

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Considered the founder of Renaissance painting

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Most prominent painter of the early Renaissance style

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Designed the Dome of the Cathedral of Florence

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German litographist during the High Renaissance known as the Leonardo of the North

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Designed the Capitoline Hill

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A revolt against the fundamental design principles of classicism of clarity, visibility and stability

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Called Il Furioso for his phenomenal energy in painting. Used dramatic perspective space and special lighting effects

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Which of the following were not part of the triumvirate of pre-eminent Venetian painters of the late Renaissance

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Regarded as the greatest architect of 16th century northern Italy

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Use of sharply contrasting light and dark

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The greatest genius of the Dutch school who painted portraits and scenes of genere and religious subjects

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Characterised by asymmetrical compositions, powerful effects of movement, and strong lighting in combination with dramatic interpretations of the object matter

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Columns with twisted shafts

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Architect of the St. Peter's Basilica

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The mother church of the Society of Jesus or Jesuits

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French Renaissance happened during who's reign?

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Distinguished by fanciful carved spatial forms and elaborate, profuse designs of shellwork and foliage intended for a delicate overall effect

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Created light hearted terracotta sculptures that epitomized the Rococo style

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Happy Accidents of the Swing was painted by which Rococo artist?

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Period where Emperor Napoleon reigned

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Art director of Napoleon who recorded the horrors of the period, mythology and Napoleonic exploits

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Intended as a Pantheon by order of Napoleon

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Introduced Renaissance Classicism into England

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Style wherein facades were extremely decorated that brought to the mind the decorative motifs of the intricately detailed works of silversmiths

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Spain's principal mannerist

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Leading Baroque artist in 17th C Spain and royal painter to Philip IV

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The first American school of landscape painting

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Considerd the first French Realist, believed that artists could accurately represent only their experiences

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A movement in French painting wherein scientific interest in the actual visual experience and effects of light and movement on appearance of objects were applied

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A landscape impressionist and leader of the pleinarists

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Painted Dancers Practicing at the Bar

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Sculptor of The Thinker

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Also known as Pointilism

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Originated the pointillism technique

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Architect of the Crystal Palace

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A reaction against poor quality mass produced goods

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A design movement of the 19th century that emphasized the decorative use of materials and textures and the development of ornament as an integral part of a structure rather than as an applied ornament

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The term for Art Nouveau used in Italy

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Architect of the Sagrada Familia

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Designed the Entrances to the Paris Metro between 1900 and 1913

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Art Deco was also known as?

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The second tallest building in New York

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A movement providing an intellectual alternative to the purely visual paintings of the impressionists

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Painted the work Two Tahitian Women

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Meaning of fauve from Fauvism

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Leader of the Fauves

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Is an opposition to academic standards and emphasized artists' subjective emotion which overrides fidelity to the actual appearance of things

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A movement of conscious and methodological destruction of particular and recognizable in appearance

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Objects in their basic geometric shapes

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French painter and leader of Cubism

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Russian painter credited with painting the first purely abstract works

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Known for his works in the Dada movement

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Designed the Schroder House in Holland

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Founder of the Bauhaus school

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Universally known as the pioneer of skyscrapers

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Established the credo "Form follows function"

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Architect of the Guggenheim Museum, New York

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Described the house as a machine for living in

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Called the "father of the skyscraper" and the "father of modernism"

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What did Le Corbusier write?

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A functional architecture during the 1920s-30s devoid of regional character; SImple, geometric forms, large, un-textured often white surfaces, large areas of glass and general use of steel or reinforced concrete construction

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Movement aimed at ridiculing and destroying the idea of art

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Which painter painted The Mystery and Melancholy of the Street

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A term used in 1929 by Alfred Barr, Jr. to refer to nonfigurative paintings of Kandinsky

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Which of the following is not an action painter?

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First building to use curtain walling

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Father of collage

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Painting in "plein air"

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Movement in architecture emphasizing the aesthetic use of basic building processes, with unfinished materials

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"Less is a bore"

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A style that goals to liberate the maximum volume of space inside by positioning all its working outside the interior envelope of the building

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The first high tech monument. Has an escalator outside

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Architect of the Guggenheim Museum

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Courtyard of a Mosque

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Niche oriented towards Mecca

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Axis oriented towards Mecca

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Men or guest's quarters in a Mosque

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Central area for prayer in a Mosque

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The Taj Mahal was made of?

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The largest Mosque ever built

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The bronze period in China

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Chinese religion that teaches individualism and transcendence through direct connection with the natural world

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Chinese monumental archway or gateway with one, three, or five openings

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A structural member found between the top of a column and a cross beam. A chinese architectural element

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China's largest existing complex of ancient sacrificial buildings

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HIstory of Art and Interior Design

The first technological stage when stone was used as tools.

Creatures with animal heads and human bodies

An anatomical exaggeration that suggests fertility found in Austria

Place where cave paintings estimated to be 16,000 years old were found.

A large stone which has been used to construct a structure or monument. They were symbols of community and served to focus divinity.

Simple boxlike chambers during the neolithic area that was made up of several upright slabs with a more of less flat stone top

Large man-made mounds often covering passages or coffin graves. These are made out of stone and are often engraved.

Burial place for Egyptian Royalty

A straight standing stone, topped with another forming a T shape

Two forms of seals during the Sumerian period

A system of writing typified by the use of characters formed by the arrangement of small wedge-shaped elements

Artificial mountain made of tiered rectangular layers which rose in number from one to seven in the course of Mesopotamian history

A stone that provided the key to decoding the hierogylphic system

Greco-Roman period in Egypt where Christianity was declared the State religion.

Material used in ancient Egypt to build row houses for the general population

The standard tomb type in Early Egypt, it was a rectangular brick or stone structure with sloping sides erected over an underground burial chamber

Guardians of the palaces in Assyrian art. Winged with human--headed bulls.

Cow goddess of the Ancient Egyptians

The largest Egyptian pyramid and one of the seven wonders of the ancient world that is still in existence

Part of and Egyptian Cult Temple. A hall that contains the central double row of columns higher that those at the sides, raising the roof's central section and creating a clerestory.