The Art of India after 1100 A.D.

1. What are the three geographical divisions of India?
2. What is India's most common language?
3. How is Hindu organized as a religion?
4. What is the trimurti?
5. Identify Brahman, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, Kalki, Krishna, Kali
6. What is an avatar?
7. What are the four noble truths of Buddhism?
8. What is a bodhissatva?
9. Describe the most common depictions of Shiva as the Destroyer.
10. Be able to discuss the iconography of depictions of the bodhissatva.
11. What is the "royal pose"?
12. What are the garbha griha, sikhara and mandapa of the Indian temple.
13. What did Indian temples and gothic cathedrals have in common?
14. Why are the tallest Indian temples at the outer edges of a temple-city complex?
15. What does the size of Indian miniature painting have to do with Muslim invasions?
16. Give examples of how the subject matter of Indian miniature paintings is related to the Emperor under whose reign the work was created.
17. What is the Taj Mahal?
18. What two fundamental Islamic structures were introduced to the Indian architectural vocabulary through the Taj Mahal?
19. Before 1100 A.D., Indian architecture was based on the ________ concept.
20. What is a chamfered square?
21. What was the Gita Govinda?