Dates & Periods
This legendary year marks the founding of Rome by Romulus and Remus.
What is 753 BCE?
This Etruscan sculpture was originally placed on a temple roof and moves dynamically in space.
What is Apollo from Veii?
This sculpture idealizes Augustus using Classical Greek proportions similar to the Doryphoros.
What is Augustus of Prima Porta?
This material allowed Romans to build vast interior spaces like the Pantheon’s rotunda.
What is concrete?
Inside this triumphal arch, Titus is shown ascending to heaven in an apotheosis scene.
What is a domus?
This political period lasted from 509 BCE to 27 BCE.
What is the Roman Republic?
This Etruscan funerary monument uniquely depicts a husband and wife reclining together.
What is the Sarcophagus of the Spouses?
This monument spirals upward with a narrative of the Dacian Wars.
What is the Column of Trajan?
These recessed panels inside a dome reduce weight.
What are coffers?
This open-roofed central space provided light and collected rainwater.
What is the atrium?
This title was granted to Octavian in 27 BCE, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
What is Augustus?
This term describes the artificial mound placed over Etruscan tombs.
What is a tumulus?
Inside this triumphal arch, Titus is shown ascending to heaven in an apotheosis scene.
What is the Arch of Titus?
This architectural feature at the Colosseum provided shade for spectators.
What is the velarium?
This basin in the atrium collected rainwater.
What is the impluvium?
This emperor issued the Edict of Milan, ending Christian persecution.
Who is Constantine?
Etruscan tomb interiors were decorated to resemble this type of space.
What is the interior of a home?
This altar promotes Augustan family values and civic virtue through an imperial procession.
What is the Ara Pacis?
This vault is formed by the intersection of two barrel vaults.
What is a groin vault?
Second Style wall painting creates this illusion.
What is the illusion of depth/opening into landscape?
This Roman ruler commissioned the Pantheon in its current form.
Who is Hadrian?
This Roman writer provides much of what we know about Etruscan temple architecture.
Who is Vitruvius?
This chaotic sarcophagus depicts Romans battling northern foes, likely the Goths.
What is the Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus?
This hemispherical dome with an oculus symbolizes the heavens inside the Pantheon.
What is the Pantheon dome?
This Pompeian house demonstrates Roman wealth and patron-client social relationships.
What is the House of the Vettii?