Greek Culture & Art quiz

1. The Ottoman Empire had a significant influence on Greek culture.

a) true b) false

2. Greeks today tend to regard the years before the Revolution, ___________, in which culturual development was perceived to have halted completely.

a) "years of glory" b) "years of darkness" c) "years of misery" d) "the black years"

3. Greek culture regards the ____________ approach.

a) "eye for an eye" b) "live for today" c) "live and let live" d) "live for tomorrow"

4. Only a minor assortment of ancient Greek art has survived.

a) true b) false

5. The Greek language has a total of ____ million speakers worldwide.

a) 12 b) 10 c) 23 d) 15

6. In the modern era, Greeks continue to contribute to the field(s) of--

a) science b) mathematics c) philosophy d) all of the above

7. Which is not one of Greek culuture's four main art forms?

a) story telling b) sculpture c) painting d) pottery

8. There are 3 scholarly distinctions of ancient Greek art: archaic, classical & Hellenistic.

a) true b)false

9. Greek painters worked mainly on ________.

a) paper b) wooden panels c) cave walls d) glass

10. Many ancient marble sculptures were burned to form lime in the Middle Ages.

a) true b) false.

Statue of a kouros (youth) 590–580 B.C.; ArchaicGreek, Attic Naxian marble;
The Greeks learned to quarry stone and plan the execution of large-scale statues from the Egyptians, who had been working very hard stones for centuries. This noble figure of a youth is one of the earliest freestanding marble statues from Attica, the region around Athens. It is a type of sculpture known as a kouros (male youth), characteristically depicted nude with the left leg striding forward and hands clenched at the side. Most kouroi were made in the archaic period, between the late seventh and early fifth centuries B.C., and are believed to have served as grave markers or as dedications.

The Parthenon is a Doric peripteral temple, which means that it consists of a rectangular floor plan with a series of low steps on every side, and a colonnade of Doric columns extending around the periphery of the entire structure. Each entrance has an additional six columns in front of it. It was built to replace two earlier temples of Athena on the Acropolis. One of these, of which almost no trace remains today, stood south of the Parthenon (between the Parthenon and the Erechtheum). The other, which was still being built at the time of the Persian sack in 480, was on the same spot as the Parthenon. We know the names of the architects (Iktinos and Kallikrates) and also of the sculptor (Pheidias) who made the massive chryselephantine cult statue of the goddess.

greek art

Greece has a rich artistic history that spans some 5000 years, it started in the Cycladic and Minoan prehistoric civilization. It gave birth to western classical art, in took influence from Eastern civilizations engulfed Italian and European ideas during the Romanticism period and the new orthodox Christianity religion in the Byzantine era. Greek art has four main forms: architecture, sculpture, painting, and pottery.There are 3 scholarly distinctions of ancient Greek art: archaic, classical, and Hellenistic.

Art Movement (Renaissance) Quiz

1.)  What does the word, "Renaissance", mean?

Rebirth

2.)  True or False?  The Renaissance was from the 13th - 18th Century?

False. 14th - 17th Century

3.)  What was the most outstanding work of the Renaissance?

St. Peter's Basilica

4.)  Florence Cathedral contains how many bricks?

4 million bricks

5.)  Virgin Child with Saints and Doner is who's work from the Renaissance?

Gerard David

Monet and Michelangelo Quiz

1.Claude Monet is recognized as the founder of French Impressionist paintings.

2.Impressionism - a style of painting that started in France during the 1860’s.

3.After the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, what country did Monet take refugee in?

a) England b) Germany c) France d) Norway

4.Where are Monet’s Wheatstacks and Lilies located today? A: The Art Institute of Chicago
5.Who are the women in Women in the Garden modeled after?
A: Camille Doncieux.

6.When did Michelangelo finish Last Judgment?

a) 1555 b)1514 c) 1541 d) 1451

7.Who asked Michelangelo to decorate the Sistine Chapel? A: Julius

8.What was the high point of Michelangelo's early style?

a) David b) Sistine Chapel c) Pieta d) Last Judgment

9.Who did he apprentice under when he was thirteen? A: Domenico Ghirlandaio

10.True or false: Michelangelo was only a sculptor, he did no other art forms. A: False

Global Warming by JoAnna Valdiviezo

It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do my diorama on, until I realized how truly disturbed I feel when I walk outside, or sit in the car, and start sweating, thinking to myself that the temperature is only going to get higher every year, due to our selfish actions. The effects of global warming are being f

elt now more than ever, not only does it cause extreme weather, but it is also destroying many animals' habitats and causing their extinction.

My diorama/microwave has the planet Earth cooking inside (melting glaciers included).