Exam 2: Ancient Greece

Citing specific examples examine the development of the male figure in Greek sculpture from the Archaic to the Classical period.

The cultural centers of the Hellenistic period were _____.

Describe the relationship between Mycenaean funerary masks and Egyptian art.

Describe Exekias's skill as a black-figure painter.

Identify the civilization that produced this object, and describe its distinctive features.

Which Athenian politician reconstructed the Athenian Acropolis?

The defeat of the Persians is the historical event that marked the beginning of the _____ age.

Which new features did this artist introduce to the sculpted male form?

What is the name of the style applied to this sculpture, and what are the characteristic features of this style?

Unlike Classical sculptors, Hellenistic artists created _____.

Minoan art takes its name from _____.

Which newfound interest in the Hellenistic period does this work exemplify?

What is the function of this building? What purposes did the different parts of the building serve?

Well-preserved Minoan frescoes were found at _____.

How does this deviate from standard temples, and what explains the need for a unique layout?

The early Greek style of representing statues with triangular heads and is called the _____ style.

Mycenaean masonry is called Cyclopean because of its _____.

Compare and contrast the dominant architectural features of the Minoan palace at Knossos and the Mycenaean citadels. What do the differences reveal about their respective societies?

Which characteristics that appear here have no parallel in earlier art?

What did the sculptors Lysippos and Praxiteles contribute in the Late Classical period of sculpture?