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Rib vault
The intersection of two or three barrel vaults produces a rib-vault or ribbed vault when they are edged with piped masonry often carved in decorative patterns
Romulus and Remus
are the traditional founders of Rome. Romulus slew Remus over a dispute about which one of the two brothers had the support of the local deities to rule the new city and give it his name. The name they gave the city was Rome. Rolmulus killed his brother to take control of the city.
Basilica
Roman public building; a large roofed hall erected for transacting business and disposing of legal matters
oculus
as the name of the round opening in the top of the dome of the Pantheon in Rome
Groin vault
also sometimes known as a double barrel vault or cross vault) is produced by the intersection at right angles of two barrel vaults.
Tiber River
is the third-longest river in Italy
Augustus
he became the first emperor of the Roman Empire, which he ruled alone from 27 BC until his death in AD 14. The young Octavius came into his inheritance after Caesar's assassination in 44 BC. The rule of Augustus initiated an era of relative peace known as the Pax Romana, or Roman peace.
Imagines
were Roman funerary masks, thought to have been made of wax, that were hung after the person's death, in the atrium of their ancestral home providing they had held curule office in the Roman state. This meant that they had to have been a censor, consul, praetor or curule aedile (later, also plebeian aedile).
Equestrian statue
a statue of a horse-mounted rider -- symbol of power prolific wealth
arch
"The Romans were the first builders in Europe, perhaps the first in the world, fully to appreciate the advantages of the arch, the vault and the dome." Throughout the Roman empire, their engineers erected arch structures such as bridges, aqueducts, and gates.
Coffers
is a sunken panel in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon in a ceiling, soffit or vault
niche
classical architecture is an exedra or an apse that has been reduced in size, retaining the half-dome heading usual for an apse.
forum
public space in the middle of a Roman city. cultural idea exchange
republic
a state or country that is not led by a hereditary monarch[1][2] but in which the people (or at least a part of its people)[3] have an impact on its government.
aquaducts
a water supply or navigable channel (conduit) that is constructed to convey water from one location to another.
triumphal arch
a structure in the shape of a monumental archway, in theory built to celebrate a victory in war, actually used to celebrate a ruler.
pompeii
volcanic city that preserved art of pompeiins
Concrete
Romans used this material to build firepoof buildings -- colosseum
thrid style
style that decorated walls with delicated linear fantasies sketched on a predominantly mono-chromatic background. Elegence -- impossibly thin columns + tiny floating landscapes in middle
Arcade
a passage or walkway covered over by a succession of arches or vaults supported by columns
pantheon
Temple of all the gods -- a building in Rome which was originally built as a temple to all the gods of Ancient Rome. has an OCULUS
verism
often used by the Romans in marble sculptures of heads. Verism, often described as "warts and all", shows the imperfections of the subject, such as warts, wrinkles and furrows.
fourth style
style where illusionsm reappred. Motifs on monochromatic background + landscapes appear in center of white subdivisions of the wall "landscapes views through the wall" ARCHITECTURE become morif. garnish colors
portrait bust
A sculpture of only a perons head, a portrait
Barrel vault
an architectural element formed by the extrusion of a single curve (or pair of curves, in the case of a pointed barrel vault) along a given distance.
tumulus
Mound where estruscan burial sites
Atmospheric perspective
is the effect on the appearance of an object by the atmosphere between it and a viewer -- landscape painting
Roundel
roundels on the arch of Constantine
First style
Masonary style -- aim was to imitate costly marble panels using painted stucco relief
colosseum
is an elliptical amphitheatre in the center of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire. It is one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and Roman engineering.
tuscany region
where the etruscan people occupied middle of Italy before falling to Rome
second style
wanted to dissolve a room confining walls and create them with illusion of an imaginay 3D world. Illusionism. marture second stytle -- painted door and windows and shadowing
Aenid
is a Latin epic poem written by Virgil in the late 1st century BC (29-19 BC) that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans.

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