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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Etruscans | 800-273BC |
| Archaic | 600-480BC |
| Classical | 480-323BC |
| Hellenistic | 323-31BC |
| Necropolis is | above ground tombs |
| Necropolis means | cit of the dead |
| Charun | fairyman- makes sure you get to the underworld |
| Cerberus | multi headed dog that guards the gate to Hades |
| Repousse | technique- wooden block with a negative relief carved into it, gold leaf is beat down into it to get design |
| Filigree | thing gold wires |
| Granulation | little gold balls |
| Cerverteri | like a town house- but a tomb, multi rms, mini dishware, made of stucko |
| Tarquinia | subterranean tombs with steep stair cases- otherwise like cerverteri |
| Joi de vivre | (joy of life) scenes- swimming, hunting, partying |
| Horror Vacuii | all escentric, w/ doodles and plants |
| Vitruvius | 1st Cen BC author and architect |
| wattle and daub | branches weaved btewn support beams and packed with mud |
| Acroterion | statue on the roof |
| Republic | 509-31BC |
| Empire | 310BC |
| Base of the Roman Basilica | Arches and Concrete |
| Barrel Vault | tunnel like, or mutliple arches stuck together |
| Groin Vault | intersecting barrel vaults |
| Travertine and Vaneer | limestone used for facing or inlay |
| Veristic Portraiture | warts and all theory |
| Agrippa | art describes to you why he should be emporer |
| Livia | Agrippa's wife |
| Personification | human portraying of something |
| Romans gave us what and a way to store it? | running water |
| Triumphal Arches | when a general is a success he gets and arch to diaplay his booty from the triumph |
| variations in relief | technique- various degrees of relief to show more crowded or more depth |
| Mt Versuvius | orginally was a cone and then blew off in a volcanoe covering pompeii and hercalinium in ash |
| Fauces | informal living rm |
| Atrium | pool/ cistern |
| Tablinium | formal living rm/office |
| Triclinium | 3 couches around a square table- dining rm |
| Peristyle | garden in the center rm |
| Peble Mosaic | natural- wht, brwns, rds |
| emblema | lay surrounding areas, center piece done in the work shop and put in center later |
| Tessera | cut stone- can fit 50 on finger tip |
| Rule of 5 good emperors | 96-180- Rome was at its height during this time |
| Basilica PLan church | used as a model for 1st Christian Church |
| Coffers | ceiling covered giving the feel of increased height |
| Oculus | eye or great eye- primary source of light |
| Constantinople | 410 AD |
| Byzantine | 527-1453 |
| Pendetives | allow transition form round dome to square building |
| Icons | st to focus prayer on |
| Iconography | destruction of these sts |
| Early Christian | 1-400 AD |
| Edictof Milan | legalized Christianity- moved capital to constantinople |
| Nave | main aisles |
| aisles | on either side of trasept |
| ase | 1/2 oval where altar is |
| trasept | is the west and east wings that are horisontal forming a t |
| crossing | where the transept and apse meet |
| narthex | aisle in front |
| atriu, | courtyard |
| Martyr | killed for belief |
| Martyrdom | church built where martyr was killed or buried |
| Central plan church | round |
| Early Medieval Europe | 410-1000 |
| Cloisonne | solid metal background with strips sautered to it and filled with stones |
| Prefer what styles | animal and interlacing |
| Codex | pages bound on 1 side |
| Folio | pages or leaf |
| Recto and Nerso | back or left side |
| Vellum or Parchment | types of animal skin |
| Matthew | spirit/ angel |
| Mark | lion |
| Luke | ox |
| John | eagle |
| Carolingian | 768-936AD |
| Romanesqe | 1000-1140AD |
| Pilgrimage | for salvation |
| Crusade | Holy war |
| Relic | belonging or physical remain of a holy person |
| Relics of the Passion | specifically have to do with christ |
| Reliquary | fancy box that hold relics |
| Radiating Chapels | for the sale to private wealthy patrons/ houses relics |
| Rib Vaulting | transfer weight of barrel vault |
| Tympanum | 1/2 moon shape |
| Lintel | supported by the post |
| Jambs | columns |
| trumeau | support for lintel |
| Archivolts | arch that creates a doorway |
| Voissoirs | pie shape wedges |
| Romanesque Church | blockiness, lrg geometric shapes, modular plan, ext reflects int, barrel- groin- rib vaulting, rounded arches, increase in verticality |
| Tomb of the Reliefs |  Etruscan, Cerverteri 3rd century |
| Fibula |  Etruscan 650BC |
| Tomb of the Leopards |  Etruscan, Taraquinia 480BC |
| Temple of Apollo |  Archaic 6th century |
| Apollo on the roof |  Archaic 510BC |
| man and woman sarcaphagus |  Archiac 520BC |
| chimera of arezzo |  Classical 4th century |
| Prima Porta |  Hellenistic 1st century BC |
| Ara Pacis |  Roman Empire 13-9BC |
| Pont-du-gard |  Republic 16BC |
| Domus Aurea |  Roman Empire 64AD |
| Colosseum |  Roman Empire 70AD |
| Arch of Titus |  Roman Empire 81AD |
| Atrium of the house of Vettii |  Roman Empire, 1st AD |
| The Samnite House-1st style |  Republic 2nd cent BC |
| Villa of Mysteries- 2nd style |  Republic 60BC |
| Villa of Agrippa- 3rd style |  Republic 11BC |
| Ixion Room- 4th style |  Roman Empire 70AD |
| Alxander confronts Darius |  Republic 1st cen BC |
| Forum of Trajan |  Roman Empire 500AD |
| Markets of Trajan |  RE 100AD |
| Four Tetrachs |  RE 305AD |
| The Panteon |  RE 118AD |
| Portrait of Constantine |  RE 315AD |
| Arch of Constantine |  RE 312 AD |
| old St. Peters |  Early Christian 320 AD |
| Hagi Sophia |  Byzantine 532AD |
| Martyrium of San Vitale |  Byzantine |
| Pontacrator |  Byzantine 1180AD |
| Vladimir and child |  Byzantine 11th |
| Chi-rho-iota |  Mediaevil 8th cen |
| Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne |  Carolingian 792AD |
| Bronze Doors |  Ottonian |
| Saint Sernin |  Romanesque 1070AD |
| Last Judgment |  Romanesque 1120AD |
| Saint Denis |  Gothic 1140 AD |
| Chartres Cathedral |  Gothic1134AD |
| Robert de Luzarches |  Gothic 1220 |
| Santa Constanza |  Early Christian 337AD |
| St Michaels |  Ottonian 1001AD |
| Purse from Sutton Hoo |  Mediaevil 625AD |
| Sainte Chapelle |  Gothic chapel of Louis IX 1243 |
| Jmb figues |  Sts Martin, Jerome, Gregory and on the left Theodore 1230 Gothic |
| Annuncition and Visitation |  Gothic, Reims cathedral 1230 |
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