JCL CLASSICAL ART QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
Cycladic Art - ANSWER large number of marble idols found in tombs, mainly standing nude female figure
with arms folded across the chest
Cycladic Art - ANSWER
Minoan Architecture - ANSWER most ambitious palace found at Knossos, excavated by archaeologist Sir
Arthur Evans (1900)
Complicated maze of rooms (used as a residence and administrative center), multi-story, characteristic
downward tapering column.
Knossos - ANSWER
Downward Tapering Column - ANSWER
Minoan Sculpture - ANSWER faience snake goddess
Faience Snake Goddess - ANSWER
Minoan Painting - ANSWER frescoes from Knossos - La Parisienne, The Prince of the Lilies, Dolphin fresco
(Queen's megaron), Toreador fresco
Frescoes from Thera (Santorini) - Boxing Children, Blue Monkeys, Fisherman
Frescoes from Knossos - ANSWER La Parisienne, The Prince of the Lilies, Dolphin fresco (Queen's
megaron), Toreador fresco
Frescoes from Thera (Santorini) - ANSWER Boxing Children, Blue Monkeys, Fisherman
Mycenae - ANSWER fortified with "cyclopean" walls, Lion Gate, Treasury of Atreus (tholos tomb -
beehive-shaped)
Gold "Mask of Agamemnon" discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in shaft graves
Warrior vase
Lion Gate - ANSWER
Treasure of Atreus (tholos tomb - beehive-shaped) - ANSWER
, Gold "Mask of Agamemnon" - ANSWER discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in shaft graves
Warrior vase
Warrior Vase - ANSWER
Pylos - ANSWER excavated by the American archaeologist - excavated by the American archaeologist Carl
Blegen
Michael Ventris (1950s) deciphered Linear B tablets
Protogeometric - ANSWER (c. 1000-900 B.C.E) pots were decorated with black bands, wavy lines, and
simple
geometric designs, concentric circles
Geometric - ANSWER (c. 900-700 B.C.E.) human and animal figures added, meander pattern, triangles
Dipylon Vase - large vase that served as a grave monument, depicts a funeral scene
Diplon Vase - ANSWER
Orientalizing - ANSWER (c. 700-600 B.C.E.) pottery begins to show signs of influence from the East,
decorative
floral motifs, animals. The Eleusis Amphora - depicts the blinding of Polyphemus by Odysseus
Eleusis Amphora - ANSWER depicts the blinding of Polyphemus by Odysseus
Eleusis Amphora - ANSWER
Black Figure Technique - ANSWER developed ca. 700 B.C. in Corinth, the design is silhouetted in black
against
the reddish clay, details are scratched in with a needle
Francois Vase - painter - Kleitias, depicts the wedding of Peleus and Thetis
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