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Roman Art
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aqueduct | an overground water system |
| Ashlar masonry | carefully cut and grooved stones that support a building without the use of concrete or other kinds of masonry |
| Atrium (plural: atria) | a courtyard in a Roman house or before a Christian church |
| Basilica | in Roman architecture, a large axially planned building with a nave, side aisles, and apses |
| Bust | a sculpture depicting a head, neck, and upper chest figure |
| Coffer | in architecture, a sunken panel in a ceiling |
| Contrapposto | a graceful arrangement of the body based on tilted shoulders and hips and bent knees |
| Cubiculum (plural: cubicula) | a Roman bedroom flanking an atrium; in Early Christian art, a mortuary chapel in a catacomb |
| Cupola | a small dome rising over the roof of a building; in architecture, a cupola is achieved by rotating an arch on its axis |
| Encaustic | an ancient method of painting that uses colored waxes burned into a wooden surface |
| Foreshortening | a visual effect in which an object is shortened and turned deeper into the picture plane to give the effect of receding in space |
| Forum (plural: fora) | a public square or market place in a Roman City |
| Fresco | a painting technique that involves applying water-based paint onto a freshly plastered wall. The paint forms a bond with the plaster that is durable and long-lasting |
| Impluvium | a rectangular basin in a Roman house that is placed in the open-air atrium in order to collect rainwater |
| Keystone | the center stone of an arch that holds the others in place |
| Oculus | a circular window in a church, or a round opening at the top of a dome |
| Peristyle | an atrium surrounded by columns in a Roman house |
| Perspective | depth and recession in a painting or relief sculpture |
| linear perspective | objects shown in this achieve a three-dimensionality in the two-dimensional world of the picture plane |
| orthogonals | all lines that draw the viewer back in space to a vanishing point |
| vanishing point | a common meeting point of orthogonals (there may be more than one point in paintings) |
| atmospheric or aerial perspective | Landscapes that give the illusion of distance |
| Pier | a vertical support that holds up an arch or a vault |
| Spandrel | a triangular space enclosed by the curves of arches |
| Vault | a roof constructed with arches |
| Veristic | sculptures from the Roman Republic characterized by extreme realism of facial features |
| Barrel vault | a tunnel formed by an arch extended in space |
| Groin vault | formed when two barrel vaults intersect at right angles |
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