First Art Recognition Test: The Ancient World

Instructions: Below are the art works, terms and styles you need to study for the first art recognition test. All of the images can be found online. Go to a search engine, such as Google.com and feed in several of the key words. Links have been porvided for some things needed. You must also create a chronology of the art.

Art Works

• Abu Simbel (XIX Dynasty) [Temple of Ramses II]
• Acropolis [Athens]
• Sphinx of Amenhotep III (ca. 1391-1353 BCE, Dynasty XVIII), faience [Metropolitan Museum]
• Cyrus the Great bas-relief (580-529 BCE)
• The Discus Thrower or the Lancellotti Discobalus by Myron (c450 BCE)
• Winged Assyrian bull from Palace of Sargon of Assyria (721-705 BC), gypseous alabaster [Louvre]
• "Lady of Auxerre" Female statue (Crete, c630 BCE), limestone
• The Laocoon (or Lookoon) Group by Hagesandros, Polydoros & Athanadoros of Rhodes (Late 2nd Century BCE)
• Menkure and his Queen (later IV Dynasty), also called Mycerinus & Khyamer-nebty
• Bust of Nefertiti, also called Nofretete (XVIII Dynasty), limestone and plaster [Egyptian Museum, Berlin]
• Parthenon (c447-432 BC) [Athens]
• The Great Pyramid of Cheops [Giza]
• Smenkhkare and Meritaten (XVIII Dynasty), painted limestone [Egyptian Museum, Berlin]
• Snake Goddess from Knossos, Crete (c1600 BCE), faience
• The [Great] Sphinx (IV Dynasty) [Giza]
• Stonehenge [England]
• Sumarian Statuette (c2900-2600 BCE), gypsum (?) inlaid with shell and black limestone(?) [Oriental Institute]
• The Gold Mask of Tutankhamon (XVIII Dynasty), obsidian, gold, turquoise, glass, carnelian, lapis lazuli [Cairo Museum]
• Venus de Milo (2nd century BCE copy)
• Venus of Willendorf (c24,000-22,000 BCE), Oolitic limestone
• The Winged Victory of Samothrace (c200-190 BCE)
• Ur-Nammu ziggurat (c2113-2096)
  

• bas-relief
• black figure vase painting (Greek)
• capitals: Corinthian, Doric, Ionic
• faience
• frieze
• fresco
• high relief
• mosaic
• red figure vase painting (Greek)

• Mesopotamian
• Egyptian
• Cretan
• Greek

Second Art Recognition: The Classical Period

For this test, you need to know the art work (in some cases I will show a conjectural picture of what the work may have looked like), have information on the artist, and create a chronology. Merely a list of dates, out of order, will not be accepted. Since the chronology will consistute about 20 percent of the test grade, DO IT.

• Alkamenes, The Caryatids on the Erechteion, ca 420 BCE (Acropolis, Athens)
• Antinoos as Dionysos, 2nd cent. AD (Vatican Museums, Rome)
• Augustus of Primaporta, ca 20 BCE (Vatican Museums, Rome)
• Bust of "Cleopatra" (or "Africa") on a silver bowl from Boscoreale (Louvre, Paris)
• Capitoline She-Wolf, ca 500-480 BCE, with Renaissance additions (Rome)
• Colossal Statue of Constantine as Cosmocrator (Museo Conservatori, Rome)
• The Colosseum, AD 70-82 (Rome)
• Colossus of Rhodes, 282 BCE (one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world)
• Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor, ca 40-30 BCE (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
• The Dying Gaul, ca 230-220 BCE, (Rome)
• Empress Theodora and Retinue, ca AD 547 (Ravenna, Italy)
• Hercules (Herakles) and Telephus, before 79 AD, (Basilica, Herculaneum, Italy)
• Kore from Chios, ca 520 BCE (Athens)
• Kouros (Kroisos) from Anavyssos, ca 525 BCE (National Museum, Athens)
• Kritios Boy, ca 481 BCE
• Landscape from Pompeii (Pomepii, Italy)
• Leochares?, The Apollo Belvedere, Roman copy of a work from ca mid-4th century BCE, (Vatican Museums, Rome)
• The Lighthouse of Alexandria, ca 290 BCE (one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world)
• The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, ca 350 BCE (one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world)
• Statue of an Old Market Woman, AD 1st century; Julio-Claudian (Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY)
• Pantheon, ca 118-125 (interior and exterior, Rome)
• The Peplos Kore, 530 BCE (Acropolis Museum, Athens, for colored version see Cambridge)
• Pheidas, The Statue of Zeus at Olympia, ca 440 BCE (one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world)
• Pheidias, Athena Parthenos, (see modern reconstruction, Nashville, TN or information on Athena Varvakeion)
• The Poseidon of Artemision, ca 460 BCE (National Archaelogical Museum, Athens)
• Relief of the "Mourning Athena," ca 460 BCE (The Acropolis Museum, Athens)
  

Terms

(be able to recognize examples of each)

• Barrel Vault
• Groin Vault
• Post and Lintel system
• Roman arch
• Peplos (Greek clothing)
• Chiton (Greek clothing)
• Under tunic (Roman clothing)
• Stola (Roman clothing)
• Palla (Roman clothing)
• Toga (Roman clothing)
  

• The Bayeux Tapestry. 1070-1080.
• Bosch, Hieryonymus. Hell. 1503-4.
• Chartres Cathedral. North Rose Window and Lancets.
• Same. Old Testament Prophet, Kings and Queen (doorjamb statues), West or Royal Portal. c1145.
• Donatello. David. c1440.
• Fouquet, Jean. "Martyrdom of St. Apollonia" in the Livre d'Heures d' Etienne Chavalier. c1452-60.
• Fra Angelico. Descent from the Cross. c1434.
• Giotto. Lamentatio. 1305-1306.
• Gislebertus. Eve. 1120-1132.
• Martini, Simone. Annunciation. 1333.
• Masaccio. Tribute Money. c1425.
• The Limbourg Brother (Pol, Hamequin, & Herman). "The Month of October," from the Duke of Berry's Tres Riches Heures (The Book of Hours). 1412-1416.
• Same. "The Garden of Eden." 1413-1416.
• Reims Cathedral: Annunciation and Visitation, West Façade. c1230-40.
• Signorelli, Luca. The Damned Cast into Hell (fresco). 1499-1500.
• Van Eyck, Jan. The Arnolfini Marriage Group. 1434.
• Same. The Ghent Altarpiece (inner view). 1432.
• Vanity or Sight, from the set of six tapestries known as The Lady with the Unicorn of the Five Senses, from Chateau of Pierre d'Aubusson at Boussac. 15th century [Metropolitan Museum of Art].
• Van der Weyden, Last Judgement. c1443-1446.

Terms

(be able to recognize examples of each)

• Romanesque
• Gothic
• Color terms

• Anguissola, Sofonisba [last name also spelled "Anguisciola"], Family Grouping or "Group of Children [Dog and Three Children], c 1555.
• Botticelli, Sandro, The Birth of Venus, 1484.
• Botticelli, Sandro , Primavera [The Allegory of Spring], c1478.
• Brueghel, Pieter the Elder, Hunters in the Snow, or February 1565, 1565.
• Brueghel, Pieter the Elder, Peasant Wedding Dance, 1566.
• Cellini, Benvenuto, Perseus, statue, 1554.
• Clouet, Francois, A Lady in Her Bath [Diane de Poitiers], 1550.
• Da Vinci, Leonardo, La Gianconda [Portrait of Mona Lisa], 1503-07.
• Da Vinci, Leonardo, The Last Supper, 1495-97.
• Da Vinci, Leonard , Proportions of Man (drawing), Academy Venice.
• Della Porta, Giacomo, St. Peter's Basilica of Rome, 1546-1564, 1590.
• Durer, Albrecht, Hare, 1502
• Durer, Albrecht, Self Portrait at 28, 1500, Munich
• Durer, Albrecht , The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (woodcut), 1498
• El Greco [Domenikos Theotokopoulos], View of Toledo, 1595-1600
• El Greco, Burial of Count Orgay, 1586-88
• El GrecoThe Agony in the Garden, 1590-1600
• Hilliard, Nicholas, Young Man in a Garden, c1588
• Holbein, Hans the Younger, The Ambassadors, 1533
• Holbein, Hans the Younger, Portrait of Anne of Cleves,1539, (Louvre, Paris)
• Mantegna, Andrea, Lamentation over the Dead Christ
• Michelangelo [Buonarroti], The Sistine Chapel ceiling, 1508-12
• Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, Sistine Chapel, 1508-12
• Michelangelo, David (statue), 1501
• Palladio, Andrea, Teatro Olimpico, 1584 (Vicenza, Italy)
• Raphael [Raffaello Sanzio], The Alba Madonna, 1511
• Raphael, The Sistine Madonna, 1513-16
• Raphael, The School of Athens, 1511
• Sluter, Claus, Prophets Daniel and Isaiah, The Well of Moses, 1395-1406 [Dijon, France]
• Titian [Tiziano Vecellio], Bacchanal of the Andrians, 1523-1525
• Titian, Salome, c1515
• Unknown, The Globe Theater, 1604 [to find what it might have looked like check the New Globe Theatre in London.