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Example Question #36 : Ancient Through Medieval Sculpture
_________________ portraits attempt to show the subject as realistically as possible, even capturing features like wrinkles or baldness.
Idealism
Realism
Naturalism
Verism
Verism
"Verism" is the term used to describe very realistic Roman portraits specifically.
Example Question #33 : Sculpture
A __________________ is a common type of Roman sculpture which depicts a male citizen wearing a toga.
Togatus
Paludamentum
Equestrian
Kouros
Togatus
"Togatus" is the general term for a statue of a male Roman wearing a toga. A "paludamentum" is a general's cloak sometimes worn by subjects in Roman sculptures. "Kouros" refers to a type of male sculpture produced in the Greek Archaic period. "Equestrian" statues depict their subjects mounted on a horse.
Example Question #38 : Ancient Through Medieval Sculpture
Encaustic refers to a process of painting with _______________.
egg yolk
clay
olive oil
hot wax
hot wax
"Encaustic" painting uses hot wax and pigment. It was commonly used for both panel paintings and painting stone sculpture.
Example Question #39 : Ancient Through Medieval Sculpture
In a clipeus portrait, the subject projects forward from a ________________.
window
rosette
shell
round shield
round shield
The term "clipeus" means round shield in Latin. This type of portrait was sometimes used to depict rulers or notable figures in Hellenistic and Roman art.
Example Question #40 : Ancient Through Medieval Sculpture
A _____________ is the base of a statue.
stand
support
pin
plinth
plinth
The plinth is the "floor" or bottom of a state, which might then be set into a separately carved statue base.
Example Question #14 : Understanding Terminology That Describes Ancient Grecian And Roman Sculpture
Roman sculpture distinguished itself from Greek sculpture by __________.
widespread use of marble as a medium
sharp realism in portraiture
creating sculptures of pagan gods for use in temples
creation of elaborate funerary memorials
sharp realism in portraiture
Most Roman sculpture, and art of all kinds, was heavily based on Greek examples, and oftentimes it can be hard to distinguish between a Roman original and a Roman copy of a Greek sculpture. However, one major distinguishing feature of Roman sculpture is in its portraiture. Roman portraits depicted their subjects in a "warts and all" manner that showed every imperfection, as it was seen to exhibit worldliness and wisdom.
Example Question #21 : Understanding Terminology That Describes Ancient Grecian And Roman Sculpture
A _____________ is a horizontal band used to divide and order pictorial space, especially in relief sculpture.
picture plane
frame
pylon
register
register
A register divides the picture plane horizontally, often providing the ground line for figural decoration if it is present. Registers are used especially in relief sculpture to provide spatial order within the composition. A frame would refer to the elements that actually surround and close off the picture plane.
Example Question #41 : 3 D Art
The ancient Greco-Roman statue that depicts a fallen soldier of the Galatian people is known as __________.
The Arrotino
The Dying Gaul
The Barberini Faun
Laocoön and His Sons
The Dying Gaul
The Dying Gaul is a statue most likely originally cast around 200 BCE by a Greek king to commemorate his victory over the Galatians, a Celtic tribe living in modern day Turkey. The sculpture is remarkable for showing the bravery and humanity of the subject, who is marked as Galatian thanks to his haircut and necklace. The Dying Gaul that has survived is a Roman copy of the Greek original that is currently held in the Capitoline Museums in Rome.
Example Question #41 : Sculpture
The Dying Gaul is a famous Roman piece of art in which medium?
Mosaic
Painting
Fresco
Sculpture
Mural
Sculpture
The Dying Gaul is a statue from the third century BCE and is among the most famous pieces of Roman artwork. The statue is remarkable for its tension and lines in the prone figure, who is slouching into repose from his wounds. Additionally, the face conveys an astonishing amount of pathos and misery, while also showing a perfect form in the figure's body.
Example Question #631 : Ap Art History
Photo by Vitold Muratov (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.
This sculpture dates back to which period of Ancient Greek sculpture?
The Archaic period
The Geometric period
The Classical period
The Hellenistic period
The Byzantine period
The Classical period
This sculpture, the Venus Braschi by Praxiteles, is a textbook example of the Classical period of Ancient Greek sculpture. The subject is calm, and has her weight shifted onto one foot, which is commonly seen in other sculptures of the same period. The sculpture has realistic, yet idealized proportions and body shape. It is also made of marble, which was not used for sculptures during the Archaic period.
The Hellenistic period consisted of a lot of movement, emotion and dynamism. As this sculpture's subject is a calm, idealized, very symmetrical female, this would not be a good representation of Hellenistic sculpture.
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