front 1 A recurring approach(s) to representation throughout the Ancient Near East include(s): | back 1 use of composite view, and the balance of naturalism and abstraction |
front 2 During the Neolithic period, after the Paleolithic period and the Ice-Age ended: | back 2 architecture began, and representations of humans in art increased |
front 3 The Assyrian relief of king Ashurbanipal hunting lions, which included the dying lioness, showed: | back 3 the kings' power and strength, and that the artists had great powers of observation |
front 4 In Sumerian art, the hierarchy of social classes was expressed in: | back 4 the design of the ziggurat, and the size of votive figures |
front 5 The "Venus" of Willendorf probably represented | back 5 the idea of fertility and its importance |
front 6 The following culture(s) had a hierarchical society in which different classes had different rights and privileges: | back 6 Egyptian and Sumerian |
front 7 Prehistoric cave painters used: | back 7 mineral and plant pigments, brushes, spray painting, and come-and-go-outlines |
front 8 The part(s) of the body that had special symbolic significance in ancient art: | back 8 hair and eyes |
front 9 Egyptian art was strongly influenced by the following cultural circumstances and factors: | back 9 the Nile River, belief in the "ka", and the absolute authority of the pharaoh |
front 10 The earliest building construction techniques included: | back 10 post-and-lintel |
front 11 The Egyptian canon for representing the human figure included: | back 11 figural proportions, composite view, and hierarchy of importance |
front 12 Pictorial devices used by ancient artists to indicate the most important figure in an image include: | back 12 larger size, and higher placement on the pictorial surface |
front 13 In Egyptian sculpture, harder stone could be used to show: | back 13 status/importance of the subject, eternal life, and the strength and power of the person represented |
front 14 Subjects frequently represented in Ancient Mesopotamian art include: | back 14 kings or other rulers |
front 15 The composite view was used by ancient artists: | back 15 to describe the body and indicate the figure has symbolic meaning |