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Short Answer Test Near East, Egyptian, Ancient Greece, and Roman Art

Short Answer Test Near East, Egyptian, Ancient Greece, and Roman Art. Each question is worth 10 points. B. Question #1: What is the purpose of this painting?. House of Publius Fannius- -reconstructed. Pont du Gard Late 1 st Century Nimes, France.

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Short Answer Test Near East, Egyptian, Ancient Greece, and Roman Art

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  1. Short Answer Test Near East, Egyptian, Ancient Greece, and Roman Art Each question is worth 10 points. B

  2. Question #1: What is the purpose of this painting? House of Publius Fannius--reconstructed

  3. Pont du Gard Late 1st Century Nimes, France Question #2: Please explain how this structure made urban life possible.

  4. Question #3: What are the two specific ways that an arch can collapse?

  5. Question #4: Where would this sculpture be situated? How can you as the viewer tell? Dying WarriorTemple of Aphaia, Aegina c. 480 BCEmarble, 6 feet Archaic Period

  6. Frieze from the Parthenon (interior Ionic frieze), c. 438-32 B.C.E. Question #5: What does this scene symbolically communicate to the viewer?

  7. Question #6: What are two specific “things” that make this sculpture so different from Polykleitos’ Doryphoros? Praxiteles Hermes and the Infant Dionysos

  8. Question #7: What is the purpose of this column? Column of Trajan Rome113-16 or after 117 CE Overall height with base 125’Column alone 97’ 8”

  9. Question #8: What is the basilica such an INCREDIBLY significant structure? Basilica of Maxentius and ConstantineFinished 312 C.E.

  10. The Ziggurat of Urc. 2100-2050 BCE in Modern Iraq Question #9:What is the symbolic function of a ziggurat? What is the political purpose of a ziggurat?

  11. Question #10: What is the dog-headed man (Anubis) doing? What is the scary dog/crocodile (Ammit) waiting for so eagerly?What are both Horus and Anubis holding in their hands? Judgment before Osiris from a Book of the Dead Dynasty 19, c. 1285 BCE

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