ahs test 3
Terms
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- Tuscan order
- similar to greek doric except there is a base and shaft is smooth, no grooves, no scuplture in pediment, on top of roof, genercic sculpture
- tumulus tomb
- mounds over tombs cut out of bedrock
- Augustus
- victorious general, first emperor of rome
- Corinthian order
- greeks invented it, but didn't use it much, Roman used it a lot, version of ionic columns, no curling volutes, use curling leaves
- groin vault
- tunnel vault cut through at center right angles by another tunnel
- verism
- very realistic copies every detail of person often based on a death max (wax mold of actual face)
- forum
- central plaza, square community center cities principle temple here
- basilica
- civic building for meetings, speaches, etc, avoided making basilicas with arches or vaults until end of empire
- nave
- tall middle section of basilica
- side aisles
- side pieces of building flaking nave
- amphiteater
- Roman normally oval, ampa means double, greek theaters were half circle, double half circle=whole circle or oval often for ritual combat
- domus
- upper class housing much more expanded than lower class, larger families, focused inwards on various courtyards in center of house
- atrium
- center most important courtyard rectangular opening in roof to let in air, light, and rain water, lots of solid walls of interior,
- mosaic
- changes from greek to romans, status symbol, sophistication, high status, very labor intensive
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Apollo from Veii
Etruscan
6th c BCE -
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Sarcophagus with Reclining couple
Etruscan
6th c BCE -
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Capitoline Wolf
Etruscan
5th C BCE -
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Arringatore
Etruscan/Roman
1st c BCE -
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Murals of the Villa of Mysteries
Roman
Pompeii
1st BCE -
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Augustus of Primaporta
Roman
1st BCE/CE - triumphal arch
- monument to celebrate military victories, architecture w/o interior space, represents city gate
- encaustic
- hot wax painting, done w/ coloured wax, hardened quickly
- Baths of Caracalla
- end of 3rd century, built by caracalla to appease community so they wouldn't revolt, had shops, art galleries, lecture halls, used groin vaults domes, and clerestory windows
- Basilica of Constantine
- last major construction of roman empire, basilicas usually made of timber but this one was made of stone using archades, only 1/3 of it left
- Constantine
- emporer that reunified the Roman empire during 4th century, thought he was champion of christianity, issued order for no persecution of christians
- catacombs
- vast subterranean networks of galleries and chambers designed as cemetaries for burying christian dead, not created by christians
- apse
- a recess, usually semicircular in the wall of a Roman basilica or at the east end of a church
- central plan
- buildings parts are of equal or almost equal dimensions around the center. usually round or polygonal domed structures, also generally used for structures adjacent to main basilicas
- illuminated manuscript
- luxurious handmade book with painted illustraions and decorations
- Constantinople
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new capital city, now known as Istanbul, Turkey
was Byzantium - Justinian
- emporer of Byzantine empire in 6th century, empire reaches greatest extent
- pendentive
- four arches, masonry in between, turns corner, corners arch inwards, curvy triangle that supports dome
- chi-rho-iota
- three initial letters of Christ's name in Greek XPI which came to serve as monogram for Christ
- mandorla
- an almond shaped nimbus surrounding the figure of christ or other sacred figure
- icon
- portrate or image, especially in byzantine art, panel with a painting of sacred personages that are objects of veneration.
- iconoclasm
- the destruction of images, in byzantium, the period from 726 to 843 when there was an imperial ban on images. the destoyers of the images were known as iconoclasts.
- iconostasis
- in byzantine churches, a creen or partition with doors and many tiers of icons, separating the sanctuary from the main body of the church
- Transfiguration
- symbolizes not only his own death, with its redeeming consequences, but also the death of his martyrs, the lamb, also a symbol of martyrdom, appropriately represnts maryred aposltes
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Augustus of Primaporta
Roman
1st BCE/CE -
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Procession Frieze, Ara Pacis Augustae
Roman
Rome
1st CE -
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Maison Carree
Roman
Nimes, France
1st CE -
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Pont Du Gard
Roman
Nimes, France
1st BCE -
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Colosseum
Roman
Rome
1st CE -
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Arch of Titus
Roman
Rome
1st CE -
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Spoils of Jerusalem, Arch of Titus
Roman
Rome
1st CE -
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Column of Trajan
Roman
Rome
2nd CE -
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The Pantheon (interior)
Roman
Rome
2nd CE -
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Marcus Aurelius
Roman
2nd CE -
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The Four Tetrarchs
Roman
4th CE -
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Arch of Constantine
Roman
Rome
4th CE -
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Arch of Constantine
Roman
Rome
4th CE -
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Santa Costanza (interior)
Early Christian
Rome
4th c CE -
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Christ as the Good Shepherd
Early Christian
Ravenna
4th c. CE -
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Hagia Sophia
Anthemius, Isodorus
Byzantine
Istabul, Turkey
6th c CE -
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San Vitale
Byzantine
Ravenna, Italy
6th c CE -
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Justinian and attendants
Byzantine
San Vitale, Ravenna
6th c CE -
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The Transfiguration
Byzantine
St Catherin Monastery,
Sinai, Egypt
6th c CE -
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christ pantokrator
byzantine
daphni, greece
11th c CE -
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St Mark's
Byzantine
Venice, Italy
11th c CE -
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David Composing psalms, paris psalter
Byzantine
10th c CE