AP.ARTHISTORY-TESTCH10(11/24/08)
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cyano-blanc on November 24, 2008
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art history, dehart, key vocabulary, romans, gardner, rome
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romans!romans!
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63 terms
Latin | English |
|---|---|
| arch |  a curved structural member that spans an opening and is generally composed of wedge-shaped blocks that transmit the downward pressure laterally |
| barrel vault | semicyclindrial incross-section, is in effect a deep arch or an unintempted series of arch |
| roundel | a picture or pattern contained in a circle |
| archaic smile | a smile which suggests a feeling of happiness via ignorance |
| aqueduct | an artificial channel for conveying water, typically in the form of a bridge supported by tall columns across a valley |
| concrete | a building material invented by the romans and consisting of various proportions of lime mortar, volcanic sand, water, and small stones |
| axial plan | a plan in which the parts of a building are organized longtitudinally along a given axis |
| engaged column | a column embedded in a wall and partly projecting from the surface of the wall |
| verism | extremely or strictly naturalistic |
| catacomb | subterranean networks of rock-cut galleries and chambers designed as cemeteries for the burial of the dead |
| swag | an ornamental festoon of flowers, fruit, and greenery |
| molding | a continuous, narrow surface designed to break up a surface, to accent or to decorate |
| meander | a winding curve or bend of a river of road |
| apse | a recess, usually semicircular, in the wall of a roman basilica or at the east end of the church |
| nave clerestory | high wall with a band of narrow windows along the very top |
| broken pediment | element consisting of the triangular section found above the horizontal structure,supported by columns |
| coffer | a sunken panel, often ornamental, in a vault or a ceiling |
| drum | one of the stacked cylindrical stones that form the shaft of a column, the cylindrical wall that supports a dome |
| rosette | a carved or modeled ornament resembling or representing a rose |
| menorah | the jewish sacred seven-branched candelabrum |
| spandrels | the roughly triangular space enclosed by the curves of adjacent arches and a horizontal member connecting their vertexes |
| atmospheric perspective | creation of the illusion of distance by the greater diminution of color intensity |
| still life | a picture depicting an arrangement of objects |
| tondo | a circular painting or relief sculpture |
| diptych | a two-paneled painting or altar piece; also hinged writing tablet, often of ivory and carved on the external sides |
| groin/cross vault | a vault formed at the point at which two barrel vaults intersect at right angles |
| pseudo-peripteral | temple having a series of engaged columns all around the sides and back of the cella to give the appearance of a peripteral colonnade |
| Greeks,Etruscans | 2 cultures which strongly influenced on Romans |
| amphitheater | Greek:double theater; a roman building type resembling two greek theaters put together |
| atrium | the court of a roman house that is partly open to the sky, also the open, colonnaded court in front of and attached to a christian basilica |
| basilica | roman architecture, civic building for legal and other civic proceedings, rectangular in plan with an entrance usually on a long side |
| cubiculum | a small cabicle or bedroom that opened onto the atrium of a roman house |
| forum | the public square of an ancient roman city |
| impluvium | the basin located in the atrium of the roman house which collected the rain water |
| peristyle garden | a garden behind the etruscan-style house which provides a second internal illumination source |
| triclinium | the dining room of a roman house |
| 1st style | The earliest style, also known as the masonry style. Aim of the artist was to imitate marbles, using painted stucco relief. |
| 2nd style | The aim was to dissolve the confining walls of a room and replace them with the illusion of a three-dimentional world constructed in the artist's imagination. |
| 3rd style | The style in which delicate linear fantasies were sketched on predominantly monochromatic backgrounds. |
| 4th style | Marks of a return to architectural illusionism, but the architectural vistas being irrational fantasies |
| cubiculum,linear perspective,atmospheric perspective | three pictorial devices used by roman painters to suggest depth |
| fauces | a narrow foyer which led to an atrium |
| tablinium | the study or office |
| peristyle | often boasted a fountain or pool, marble statuary, mural paintings,mosaic floors.A garden providing a second internal illumination source |
| colosseum | a large theater or stadium |
| pont-du-gard | an early Augustan project of the great aqueduct-bridge at Nîmes, France |
| rusticated masonry | a rough styled, rougheningthe surfaces and beveling the edges of stone blocks to emphasize the joints between |
| Maison Carrée | a building erected in France in the Augustan style |
| 50,000~70,000 | # of people Flavian Amphitheater(Colosseum) can hold |
| apotheosis | elevated to the rank of gods, or the ascent to heaven |
| Circus Maximus | first and biggest circus in the Ancient Rome |
| continuous narration | in a painting/sculpture, the convention of the same figure appearing more than once in the space at different stages in a story |
| encaustic painting | a techinique of painting in which pigment is mixed with wax and applied to the surface while not |
| equestrian portrait | horse-riding portrait image |
| insula | a multistory apartment house, usually made of brick-faced concrete; also refers to an entire city block |
| oculus | Latin:eye; the round central opening of a dome |
| Apollodorus of Damascus | the architect of the forum of Trajan |
| caladarium | the hot-bath section of a roman bathing establishment |
| frigidarium | the cold-bath sectionof a roman bathing establishment |
| tempera | a technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk,glue,or casein,also the medium itself |
| tepidarium | the warm bath section of a roman bathing establishment |
| Stuccoed vaults | type of vaults used for the frigidarium of the bath of Caracalla |
| Trajan | 98CE, the Spanish emperor who extended the empire to the greatest |
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