Exam 10: Artistic Reflections in the Pre-Modern World

The Gothic style of two-dimensional art found magnificent expression in what form?

What Greek style is typified by characteristics that are less formal,more realistic and more emotional than the Classical style?

The use of this material by Roman architects made possible aesthetical and practical applications impossible for the Greeks.

This architectural style was a physical extension of a philosophy of Light Divine by Abbot Suger.

Roman sculpture is largely influenced by what culture?

Explain contrapposto.

In this literary form the correspondent raises a series of questions and then answers them.

Medieval music that consists of Gregorian chant and an additional melodic line.

Greek lyric poet,Pindar,is known for writing what form of poetry?

What is a stupa and how does it compare to Western architecture?

An artistic style dating to the fifth-century B.C.E.Greece and exhibiting simplicity,clarity of structure,and appeal to the intellect.

Medieval vaulted architecture that preceded the Gothic pointed arch.

Compare Polyclitus,Doryphorus (Lance Bearer)to Praxiteles,Cnidian Aphrodite.What are the most significance differences?

A distinctive feature of Greek dramas,portraying the dual function in the same play as narrator and character,responding to the actors.

When Rome fell to the Goths in 476 C.E.the arts and learning of the classical world were preserved and nurtured in this Middle East city.

Where did Roman culture turn to for inspiration in art?

The Song of Roland from France is a major literary accomplishment from what era?