Architectural Types
Structures
Sculptural Types
Sculptures
Pictorial Style
100
The Latin word for "house"
What is Domus?
100
Amphitheater with ground-floor Tuscan column and second-floor Ionic columns, used for public spectacles.
What is The Colosseum?
100
The most typical item of funerary art for the Romans.
What is the sarcophagus?
100
Sculpture where emperor is portrayed as a general addressing his troops.
What is Augustus of Prima Porta?
100
Although most of which no longer exists, these provide the greatest evidence of Greek Hellenistic painting.
What are Roman Murals?
200
These were derived from Greek and Etruscan precedents.
What are Roman temples?
200
952 of them were in Rome by the middle of the fourth century.
What are public baths?
200
A portrait type where the head is detached from the body
What is a bust?
200
This statue's original location on the throne in the apse of the basilica reflected the emperor's power over the Roman people.
What is the Monumental head of Constantine?
200
Best examples of these are found in the country villa near Pompeii.
What are Second Style paintings or frescos
300
These were built in honor of the actions of individuals.
What is Commemorative Architecture?
300
One of the most symbolic marble monuments of Augustus's reign.
What is Ara Pacis?
300
A type of imperial portrait invented by the Romans.
What is the equestrian monument?
300
This portrait of an upper-class Roman has curls that frame the face, with deep carvings.
What is A Young Flavian Woman?
300
To show a painting in its' original context.
What is situ?
400
The Forum and The Basillica.
What are Public Buildings?
400
Built during the reign of Hadrian and dedicated to the five planetary gods.
What is the Pantheon?
400
Used as an intended means of keeping the deceased alive in memory.
What are portraits?
400
This sculpture shows the bust of an emperor wearing red porphyry, with his head and neck in white marble.
What is Caracalla?
400
Characteristic of the Fourth Style, this is brought together with shading to create an illusion of volume.
What are highlights?
500
Used for entertaining and for storing family documents and images of ancestors.
What is tablinium?
500
Formerly known as the Temple of Fortuna Virilis.
What is Temple of Portunus?
500
A phallic staff surmounted by a pine cone.
What is a thyrsos?
500
Domination and conquest are implied by this type of iconography.
What is equestrian?
500
This baptized Emperor is believed to be the reason why Christianity was dominant over Western art for well over the next thousand years.
Who is Constantine the Great?
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