Art Through the Ages

What is the job of an art historian?

• They are people who write, analyze, interpret, and evaluate art.

• Art historians are people who study time and physics of art.

• The role of an art historian is to cover what has not been discovered yet.

• Art historians are people who study art of different cultures and time periods.

Why did Egyptian artists always show the human figure in the same unusual way?

• Because they are people who study art of different ages and cultures.

• It was forced on them and that each body part was to be shown from its most familiar angle.

• Because they believed that the human figure they portrayed, held special powers.

• The rules required that each body part be shown from in a twisted way, because that's how people walked.

When did ancient Greece reach its peak? When and by whom was it conquered?

• Ancient Egypt conquered Greece during the peak of 1300 B.C.

• Greece never fell to any civilization, they thrived for many centuries and soon conquered Egypt and Rome.

• Greek reached its peak during the fourth and fifth centuries B.C. and were taken over by Rome.

• The Romans were the ones who were defeated by the Greeks and this was during the Golden Age.

How did Roman sculptures of people differ from Greek sculptures of people?

• Roman sculptures only captured the head and bust of a person, while Greek sculptures captured the whole person.

• They did not because Roman sculptures and Greek sculptures are identical.

• The Greek sculptures were different from the Roman sculptures because they were made of clay.

• There were no differences between Roman sculptures and Greek sculptures of people.

What is the difference between applied art and fine art?

• There is no difference between applied art and fine art, because they both are made to look pleasing to the eye.

• There are many differences between applied art and fine art, there are too many to count.

• The difference is that applied art is made to be useful and fine art has no use other than that it is visually pleasing.

• Fine art is different than applied art because one is more beautiful than the other.