Catherine McCoid and LeRoy McDermott argued that the curvy proportions of figures with this name were from pregnant sculptors looking down at their bodies. For 10 points each:
[10e] Paleolithic figures found at Willendorf and Hohle Fels are named for what goddess, who is depicted in an armless Greek statue “de Milo?”
ANSWER: Venus [accept Venus of Willendorf; accept Venus de Milo; accept Aphrodite or Aphrodite of Melos]
[10m] Two answers required. Sarah Murray has argued that female artisans made much of the geometric designs of Archaic Greek pottery, which was eclipsed by figure-heavy vase paintings named for these two colors.
ANSWER: red AND black [accept red-figure pottery and black-figure pottery]
[10h] Around 100 BCE, the female portraitist Iaia of Cyzicus (“ee-EYE-ah of SIZ-ick-us”) devised quick ways to produce tempera and this other medium. The Fayum portraits were made with this medium in which oils are mixed with heated wax.
ANSWER: encaustic
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