FAH FINAL

Question 1

Çatalhöyök

Answer 1

• made of timber posts and beams filled with mud brick, plastered
• plaster relief
• female goddesses
  -bull imagery and animal skeletal

Question 2

Stonehenge

Answer 2

• heel stone: outer stone
• lintel: horizontal
• post: vertical
• inner horse stone: trilithion (3-piece configuration
• blue stone: looks blue when wet, 2-5 tons each
• Sarsen stones: Marlborough Downs, 25 tons

Question 3

Hohle Fels figure

Answer 3

• mammoth ivory
• germany
• 35000 BCE
• idealistic beauty standard of the time
• excentuating womanly figure

Question 4

Acropolis, Athens

Answer 4

• created for the greek Godess Athena
• ahtena = goddess of war
• daughter of Zuse
• ## birth place of democracy

Question 5

PARTHENON
acropolis, Athens
NORMS AND FORMS

Answer 5

• regularity
• mathematical precision
• subtle optical adjustments

Question 6

pediment

Answer 6

• triangular feature of entablature on top of parthenon
• entablature consists of birth of Athena, metopes, Lapith vs. centaur

Question 7

inner wall parthenon

Answer 7

frieze of panathenaic procession

Question 8

terracotta warriors

Answer 8

• composed from 12 moulds
• used carving to get specific features and traits

Question 9

terracotta chariots

Answer 9

wood and bronze fittings

Question 10

Facture

Answer 10

how an object shows the manipulation of specific materials and techniques

Question 11

terracotta faces

Answer 11

• Moulds for 8 facial types
• Then individuated with slip, incised details, paint

Question 12

hinduism

Answer 12

• no single founder
• earliest texts (Vedas), Sanskrit 1700BCE
• no text found

Question 13

hindusim
Ultimate Goal

Answer 13

recognition that all things are united, interconnected manifestations of Brahman; liberation from endless
cycle of birth, death, rebirth, death

Question 14

Durga

Answer 14

Warrior goddess

Question 15

Ganesha

Answer 15

Beginnings; remove obstacles

Question 16

eikon

Answer 16

• Greek word for image, representation
• can be material (physical painting, sculpture, person, etc.)
• can be immaterial (in the mind’s eye; dream; reflection in a mirror)

Question 17

Icon Association

Answer 17

Associated with the Byzantine Empire (Byzantium), 324–1453

Question 18

Monastery Mt. Siani (Egypt)
ca. 527 CE

Answer 18

originally dedicated to Mary, mother of God
(dedicated to St. Cathrine in the 11th century)

Question 19

temple screen

Answer 19

Barrier between place of holiest ceremonies (priests) and space for 􏰀regular􏰁 people

Question 20

Inka Power

Answer 20

• Based in Cuzco
• Expansion of territory around 1200
  1438, began conquering neighboring territories
• Largest empire in the Western Hemisphere!

Question 21

Invasion of Francisco Pizarro, from the north

Answer 21

• Inka Atahualpa kidnapped, then killed 1532
• Cuzco seized in 1533