Gardner's Art Through the Ages: Chapter 9-10
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art history ap, etruscan, roman
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art history, etruscan and roman artworks
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Amphitheater | an oval large stadium with tiers of seats |
| Apse | A recess, usually semicircular, in the wall of a Roman basilica or at the east end of a church. |
| Arcade | a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns |
| Arch | (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it |
| Atrium | the central area in a building, large room |
| Attic | (architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature; where the pediment would be but isn't |
| Barrel vault (tunnel vault) | the simplest form of vault consisting of an unbroken series of arches; it forms a tunnel like shape |
| Basilica | a civic building for legal and other civic proceedings, rectangular in plan with an entrance usually on a long side and an apse |
| Caldarium | The hot-bath section of a Roman bathing establishment |
| Castrum (castra) | An Ancient Roman walled military camp with gridded rectangular layout, later a castle, fort, or fortified town |
| Centering | the temporary wooden framework used in the construction of arches, vaults, and domes |
| Chimera | (Greek mythology) fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail |
| Cinerary urn | a vase for the ashes of a cremated person, also referred to as "funerary urn" |
| Coffer | an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome |
| Compluvium | opening in the roof for air, light, rain |
| Composite capital | A capital combining Ionic volutes and Corinthian acanthus leaves, first used by the ancient Romans. |
| Concrete | a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water |
| groin vault (cross vault) | formed at the point at which 2 barrel vaults intersect at right angles |
| Cubiculum (pl. cubicula) | room, bedroom |
| Cuirass | body armor that covers the chest and back |
| Domus | house |
| Dome | a hemispherical roof |
| Drum | a cylindrically shape wall that holds the dome ceiling |
| Engaged column | A half-round column attached to a wall |
| Forum | an assembly place or court for dispensing law |
| Fourth Style mural | combines other 3 styles; marks a return to architectural illusionism, but the architectural vistas of the Fourth Style are irrational fantasies. |
| Frigidarium | The cold-bath section of a Roman bathing establishment |
| Impluvium | basin for rain water |
| Insula | multistoried Roman apartment building |
| first style mural (Masonry Style) | earliest style of Roman mural painting also called the Masonry Style, where the painting imitated the appearance of costly marble panels |
| Oculus (pl. oculi) | the round central opening of a dome |
| Patricians | the wealthy class in Roman society; landowners |
| Portico | a porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area |
| Pseudoperipteral | a series of engaged columns all around the sides and back of the cella to give the appearance of a peripteral colonnade. |
| Revetment | a decorative facing (marble, terracotta) to an ordinary and strong material (concrete) |
| Second Style mural | architectural style, decoration is no longer restricted to a single plane. The room is meant to look as though it is extended more than it really is (the decoration is architecture) |
| Tepidarium | the moderately warm room in ancient roman baths. |
| Terracotta | Hard-baked clay, used for sculpture and as a building material. It may be glazed or painted. |
| Third Style mural | In Roman mural painting, the style in which delicate linear (landscape) fantasies were sketched on predominantly monochromatic (large, solid color) backgrounds. |
| Triumphal arch | a freestanding arch commemorating an important event, such as a military victory or the opening of a new road |
| Pilaster | a flattened, rectangular version of a column, often purely decorative, |
| Spolia | re-use (stealing) of earlier building material or decorative sculpture for use on new monuments |
| Tracery | Any graceful design of lines that come together or cross in various ways |
| Travertine | a hard limestone used as a building material by the Etruscans and Romans |
| Tufa | hard volcanic rock composed of compacted volcanic ash |
| Tuscan column | The standard type of Etruscan column. Resembles ancient Greek Doric columns, but is made of wood, is unfluted, and has a base. |
| Velarium | In a Roman amphitheater, the cloth awning that could be rolled down from the top of the cavea to shield spectators from sun or rain. |
| Veristic | Type of roman portrait showing real detail, brutally realistic portrait |
| Voussoir | wedge-shaped stone building block used in constructing an arch or vault |
| Wattle and daub | A wall construction method combining upright branches, woven with twigs and plastered or filled with clay or mud |
| imagines (wax death max) | Model of the face, imnperfections and all, of a dead person. To be kept inside home as a rememberance of dead; plaster., wax portraits of ancestors in ancient Rome |
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