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Podium
-A small and raised platform
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Verism
- late Republic Period
- Artistic preference of contemporary everyday subject matter
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Pompeian Painting Styles
-1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th style
-Characteristic of wall paintings during this era
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Illusionism
-The representation of the 3d world on a 2d surface
-Creates the illusion that the thing is actually 3d
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Sacral-idyllic
-A landscape that shows an ideal countryside
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Mosaic
-Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces (tesserae) of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
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Engaged Column
Free Standing Columns
-A half-round column attached to a wall
-Column that is not attached to anything else
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Tufa
Travertine
Marble
-A type of soft, porous limestone
-Form of limestone deposited by mineral springs
-A non-foliated metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals
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Roman Concrete (opus caementicium)
-Roman concrete was based on a hydraulic-setting cement with many material qualities similar to modern Portland cement
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Pozzolona
-A type of volcanic ash used for mortar or for cement which sets under water
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Incrustation/Veneer
-Wall decoration consisting of bright panels of different colors
- thin leaf of wood applied with glue to a panel or frame of solid wood
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Barrel Vault
Groin Vault
-A simple continuous vault, typically semicircular and hollow in cross section
-Formed at point at which two barrel vaults intersect at right angles
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Atrium
-Central reception room of a Roman house that is open to the sky
-Also, the open colonnaded court in front of and attached to a Christian basilica
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Peristyle
-A row of columns surrounding a space within a building such as a court or internal garden or edging a veranda or porch.
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Insula
Roman, multi-story apartment house, usually made of brick-faced concrete
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Peplos
-A simple, long belted garment of wool worn by women in ancient Greece
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Pan-Athenaic Ceremony
- -The procession to the Parthenon was more important than the games themselves
- -Women wore peplos
- -Large sacrifice made to Athena
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Theme of Parthenon frieze
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Votive
-A gift of gratitude to a deity (Parthenon ceremony)
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In-antis
-The area between the antae (molded, projecting ends of a wall)
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Prostyle
-A classical temple plan in which columns are only in front of the cella and not on the sides or back
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Peripteral
-Single row of columns on all sides
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Dipteral
-Double row of columns all around
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Pseudo-dipteral
- -A temple with the inner range of columns surrounding the cella omitted so that space between cella wall and columns is very great
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Cella (naos)
-The chamber at the center of an ancient temple
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Doric
Ionic
Corinthian
-Columns without bases and funnel-shaped tops
-Columns with bases and with capitals
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Decumanus
Cardo
-The east-west street in a Roman town, intersecting the cardo at right angles
-The north-south street in a Roman town, intersecting the decumanus at right angles
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Castrum
-A Roman military encampment
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Orchestra
Auditorium
Skene
-In Greek theatres, circular piece of Earth with a hard and level surface on which a performance took place
-A room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances at venues such as theatres
-The stage of a classical theatre
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Theatron
Amphitheatre
-Slope overlooking the orchestra on which spectators sat
-Roman, continuous elliptical cavea around a central arena
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Basilica
-A public building for legal and other civic proceedings, with the entrance usually on the long side
-Can be a Church
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Thermae
-Roman large, imperial bath complexes
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Vitruvius
-A Roman author, architect, and engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps best known for his multi-volume work entitled De Architectura.
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Frigidarium
Caldarium
Palaestra
-The cold-bath section
-The hot-bath section
-In a bathing complex, A roman exercise area
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Oculus
-The round, central opening of a dome
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Coffer
A sunken panel in a vault or ceiling
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Arcuated architecture
Arch-Shaped architecture
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"gable of glorification"
-An arch that was made by Romans in order to commemorate a great real-life happening that involved their emperor's
-Triumphal arch
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the Tetrarchs/Tetrarchy
-A type of Roman government established in the late 3rd century by Diocleitan in an attempt to foster order by sharing power with potential rivals
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Choir
The space reserved for the clergy and singers in a church
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Ambulatory
A covered walkway, especially the passageway around the apse and the choir of a church
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Nave and Aisle
-The central area of an ancient Roman basilica or Church
-The portion of a basilica flanking from the nave and separated by rows or piers
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Transept
-The part of the church with an axis that crosses the nave at a right angle
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Narthex
-A porch of a church, generally colonnaded or arcaded
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Pendentive
-The dome atop a dome/cross vault-like thing
-This architectural element is used extensively in the Hagia Sophia of turkey.
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Central Plan
Longitudinal Plan
- Central plan is often designed around a base shape (a circle, an octagon, etc).
-Longitudinal plan is based off of Roman Basilicas, and is usually symmetrical down the Nave
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