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As Baroque principles spread across Europe, each country developed them in its own way. For example, ____________ favored a more restrained, “classical” version in which the order and balance of the Renaissance were retained although infused with theatricality and grandeur.

To the Aztecs, the “feathered serpent” was the god of windstorms that bring rain and known as:

Rebelling against the Neoclassical “Age of Reason” this art movement urged the use of emotion, intuition, individual experience, and imagination. Artists glorified the landscape, picturesque ruins, the struggle for liberty and man’s relationship to nature.

Identify the Mesoamerican culture that rose to prominence around 1000 BCE and credited with developing a sophisticated version of the Mesoamerican calendar and an advanced writing system:

Early Islamic architects drew inspiration from the Prophet Muhammad’s:

This was considered a sacred substance by many North American peoples and the vehicle for its delivery became a sculptural art form.

Zen priest-painters used a painting technique called haboku, “splashed ink,” as a metaphor to express:

Identify the post-impressionist artist who remained faithful to the idea of painting modern life in works such as A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.

List two problems cause by late 19th century urban growth. 

What location was referred to as the “island of hope, island of tears”?