Ancient Agean(s)
Ancient Greece
Etruscan(s)
Roman(s)
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100
Hammered into relief from the reverse side.
Repousse
100
The face of a building, especially the principal from that looks onto a street or open space.
Facade
100
An ancient burial mound, a barrow.
Tumulus
100
A vault performing a half cylinder.
Barrel Vault
100
A square space between Tryglyphs in a Doric Frieze.
Metope
200
A circular tomb of beehive shape approached by a horizontal passage in the side of a hill.
Tholos
200
A broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration, especially on a wall near the ceiling.
Frieze
200
Columns with an unfluted shaft and a simplified base, capital, and entamblature.
Tuscan Columns
200
The act of moving around a sacred object or idol.
Circumbulation
200
A stone coffin, typically adorned with a sculpture or inscription and associated with the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Rome, and Greece.
Sarcophagus
300
Technique to support the superstructure of a building's roof.
Corbel Vaulting
300
A horizontal, continuous lintel on a classical building supported by columns or a wall, comprising the architrave, frieze, and cornice.
Entablature
300
A cornice that follows the slope of a gable or pediment.
Raking Cornice
300
Epic poem by Vergil, recounting the adventures of Aenas after the fall of Troy.
Aenid
300
A column embedded in a wall and partly projecting from the surface of the wall, sometimes defined as semi or three-quarter detached.
Engaged Columns
400
A space above a lintel in megalithic architecture to relieve the weight of the masonry.
Relieving Triangle
400
The Panathenaic games held in Athens in Ancient Greece that incorporated religious festival, ceremony, athletic competitions, and cultural events hosted within a stadium.
Panathenaic Procession
400
Unglazed, typically brownish-red earthenware used chiefly as an ornamental building material and in modeling.
Terracotta
400
An arch built over a lintel to relieve or distribute the weight of the wall above.
Relieving Arches
400
The two types of fresco painting are buon fresco and fresco secco. Buon fresco is painting into wet plaster, which make a painting last a long time. Fresco secco is painting onto dry plaster. Which does not last as long.
True Fresco
500
A type of stonework found in Mycanean architecture, built with massive limestone boulders, roughly fitted together with minimal clearance between adjacent stones and no use of mortar.
Cyclopean Masonry
500
A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
Allegory
500
Any place which was circumscribed and separated by the augurs from the rest of the land by a certain solemn formula.
Templum
500
A conceptual approach that does not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws upon multiple theories, styles, or ideas, to gain complementary insights into a subject, or applies different theories in particular cases.
Electicism
500
Relating to or denotating a classical order of architecture characterized by a sturdy fluted column and a thick square abacus resting on a rounded molding.
Doric
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