Hellenistic
The empire of this ruler is thought to separate Classical Greece from Hellenistic Greece.
Who is Alexander the Great?
Life-size sculpture in this medium is one of the defining features of Etruscan art.
What is terra cotta?
This emperor ordered the construction of the Ara Pacis.
Who is Augustus Caesar?
This emperor passed the Edict of Milan and legalized Christianity.
Who is Constantine?
This term comes from the Greek eikon, and in the context of Byzantine art, it refers to sacred images.
What is an icon?
This empathetic sculpture illustrates the moment an enemy reacts to being cornered by Greek soldiers.
What is Gallic Chieftain Killing Himself and his Wife?
Unlike the Greeks, Etruscans put most of their architectural sculpture on this part of a temple.
Roof
This is a certain type of purple marble that can only be found in Egypt and that becomes associated with imperial power.
What is porphyry?
This term describes the "rule by four" that characterized the governance of very end of the Roman empire.
What is the tetrarchy?
This church was an imperial church in Constantinople adjacent to the emperor's palace. It combines the central and basilican plans.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
Classical sculpture is sometimes thought to embody the Greek rhetorical concept of ethos, while Hellenistic sculpture is thought to embody this rhetorical concept.
What is pathos?
This term describes the unflinching realism, emphasizing age, found in Republican portraiture.
What is verism?
This emperor built an incredibly elaborate palace on what was previously public land near the Roman forum after a devastating fire destroyed much of the city. He was very unpopular.
Who is Nero?
This term describes the bread and wine that are central to the Christian mass, and it is often symbolically evoked through the motif of grape vines.
What is the eucharist?
This is the term used to describe periods of the destruction of religious images or the banning of religious images.
What is iconoclasm?
A youthful, athletic, idealized body type is associated with the god Apollo, while a broad, mature, overly muscular body type is associated with this god.
Who is Zeus?
The transition from the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire begins with the murder of this powerful dictator in the senate.
Who is Julius Caesar?
This building contained the largest dome in the world until it was surpassed in the 15th century.
What is the Pantheon?
This building plan had imperial funerary connotations since at least the time of Augustus, and it would evolve to be the characteristic plan of martyria and baptisteries.
What is the central plan?
This is the Byzantine emperor under whom the empire was at its largest.
Who is Justinian I?
The portraiture of Alexander the Great by this artist, his court sculptor, would become enormously influential on later Roman imperial portraiture.
Who is Lysippos?
There were sharp class divisions in ancient Rome; "Plebeian" refers to the commoners, while this term describes the aristocratic class.
What is patrician?
This public area of ancient Rome comprises a temple, Greek and Latin libraries, a basilica, monuments, and markets.
What is the Forum of Trajan?
This term describes the borrowing or merging of motifs from Roman paganism into Christian iconography.
What is syncretism?
This is the term used to describe the role of the Virgin as the "mother of God," which she takes on in certain icons of her.
What is the theotokos?