RULERS
A style of portraiture used to express a reverence for age, experience, gravitas and virtue in leaders of the Republic.
What is verism?
The largest of its kind in the world at the time, it held more than 30,000 spectators.
What is the Coliseum?
This material was refined to make building cheaper and easier.
What is concrete?
A semicircular construction on the edge of a building.
What is an apse?
It was the largest one of these in the ancient world, and remains the largest of its kind today.
What is the concrete dome of the Pantheon?
This building technique was refined from the original Sumerian design and used extensively in Roman architecture.
What is the arch?
When two barrel vaults are crossed it makes this type of vault.
What are groin vaults?
Rome often borrowed ideas and artists from this civilization.
What is Greece?
The myth is that he fiddled while Rome burned.
Who was Nero?
Roman villas always had these two open-air characteristic features.
What are an atrium and a peristyle garden?
This material was added to concrete by the Romans to create a lighter, more rigid material.
What is volcanic ash?
This building was the center of civic and judicial proceedings in Rome.
What is a basilica?
He was married to the soon-to-be emperor's sister, but left her for another woman, helping fuel the downfall of the Republic and move toward the Roman Empire.
Who was Mark Antony?
The center of Roman life and a space to honor the Emperor.
What is the Forum?
Nero's home, built after Rome burned in 64 CE and paid for with excessive taxes. It brought the downfall of the Julio-Claudian dynasty
What is the Domus Aurea?
Through the Edict of Milan in 313 CE, this emperor made Christianity the official religion of Rome.
Who is Constantine?
This city was sacked and looted by the Romans to fund the building of the Colosseum
What is Jerusalem?