Narrative Art History

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What is one of the earliest examples of Ancient Egyptian art?

  • The Balawat Gates
  • The Narmer Palette relief (correct)
  • The Vaticanus manuscript
  • The Quedlinburg Itala fragment

Where were the bronze bands with narrative art often found?

  • On the walls of Assyrian royal palaces
  • In the Louvre Museum
  • On the doors of Assyrian temples and palaces (correct)
  • In the Northwest Palace of Assurnasirpal II

What type of art did the lives of Jesus and Buddha provide new subject-matter for?

  • Narrative art (correct)
  • Portrait art
  • Landscape art
  • Abstract art

What is an exceptional example of Imperial Roman narrative art?

<p>Trajan's Column (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What were the most common subjects in Christian art?

<p>The Life of Christ and the Life of the Virgin (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the three aspects of narrative art that the artist must consider?

<p>Space, time, and representation (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary characteristic of narrative art?

<p>It tells a story, either as a moment in an ongoing story or as a sequence of events unfolding over time (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How did the development of literacy affect the way narrative art was organized?

<p>It resulted in the use of register lines to organize scenes (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term that covers most narrative scenes in traditional Western art since the Renaissance?

<p>History painting (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a characteristic of some reliefs in the European Bronze Age Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin?

<p>They show monoscenic narratives of hunting or battle (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is true about the development of narrative art?

<p>It requires sophisticated conventions to make the narrative clear (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What led to the development of new ways of telling stories in the 20th century?

<p>The linking of scenes together along register lines (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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