The period of Greek art which utilized abstract patterns.
What is the Geometric style?
100
The key difference between Roman and Greek architecture.
What is concrete?
100
The triangular area above the frieze and below the gabled roof.
What is a pediment?
100
The town covered and preserved by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius so we could study their wall frescoes.
What is Pompeii?
200
The Romans knew her as Venus, the goddess of love.
Who is Venus?
200
The period of Greek art which was influenced by other cultures dramatically.
What is the Orientalizing period?
200
A central stone at the summit of an arch, locking the whole together.
What is a keystone?
200
A column that is long and slender looking, with a double scroll capital called a volute.
What is an Ionic column?
200
The roman emperor that made Rome Christian. His portrait is abstracted with large eyes as “windows to the soul”
Who is Constantine the Great?
300
The goddess of crafts including war, and thus intelligence and wisdom.. she serves as the protector of Athens
Who is Athena?
300
A piece of pottery, which is painted with black pigment, leaving the red of the clay as the positive space.
What is red-figure painting?
300
An artificial channel for conveying water, typically in the form of a bridge supported by tall columns across a valley.
What is aqueduct?
300
The triple grooved adornments of a Doric frieze.
What is a triglyph?
300
The type of painting where pigment was added to hot wax.
What is encuastic?
400
These twins founded Rome.
Who are Romulus and Remus
400
When a sculpture has a relaxed stance with unequal weight, creating a balanced asymmetry.
What is contrapasto?
400
A temple for all the gods, this building contains a dome that would have led to a awe inspiring experience for it’s viewers
What is the Pantheon?
400
A colonnade or row of columns surrounding a cella.
What is a peristyle?
400
His age caused a change in the way Emerial portraits were created, since he was so young and Romans valued age.
What is Who is Octavian or Augustus Caesar?
500
A holdover from Egyptian culture, the El Khasneh, is a temple to this cult icon.
Who is Isis?
500
Heightened drama and emotion, exploring the movement of the human body, and viewer involvement are all features of this Greek period.
What is Hellenistic?
500
A large oblong hall or building with double colonnades and a semicircular apse, used in ancient Rome as a court of law or for public assemblies.
What is a Basillica?
What is a basilica?
500
Leaves decorate these columns
What are corinthian columns?
500
A Roman triumphal column in Rome, Italy, which commemorates Roman emperor Trajan's victory in the Dacian Wars.