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Term describing fired clay used on the roofs of Etruscan Temples.
What is terracotta?
100
The architectural element is created by the intersection of two barrel vaults.
What is a Groin Vault?
100
This type of painting found on mummy portraits from Egypt uses was and pigment.
What is Encaustic?
100
This sculpture is used as the symbol of Rome.
What is the Capitoline Wolf?
100
The year Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried by Mount Vesuvius.
What is 79 BCE?
200
Goldwork using grains of gold droppings.
What is Granulation?
200
The hole in the center of a Roman Dome.
What is an Oculus?
200
The first Roman painting style focus on what?
What is Masonry or rock textures?
200
This emperor conquered Dacia and built this sculpture as a record.
What is Trajan's Column?
200
These square cutouts in a dome are used to lighten the load.
What is coffering or coffers?
300
A burial coffin.
What is a Sarcophagus?
300
Set on tall podiums, approached from a single side and pseudoperiterel.
What is a Roman Temple?
300
The Roman painting style created illusionistic landscapes using this.
What is atmospheric perspective?
300
What did the Romans reject in the latter periods of Roman Sculpture?
What are classical Greek rules?
300
A public square in a Roman city.
What is a Forum?
400
The name of the land of the Etruscans.
What is Etruria?
400
The Roman Colosseum what built primarily of this material.
What is concrete?
400
Various sections, some painted decoratively, some painted as paintings on the wall are representative of this Roman painting style.
What is 4th period painting?
400
A strongly realistic style with preference for portraits of the elderly, is most typical of this time.
What is Republican Rome?
400
He was the Roman emperor who pulled the empire back together at the end of the 3rd century (CE).
Who is Diocletian?
500
An Etruscan container for utensils.
What is a Cista?
500
The term for a temple that has a series of attached columns rather than a free standing colonnade.
What is Psuedoperipteral?
500
A portrait found in Pompeii represented this event.
What is a Wedding?
500
An equestrian portrait that survived shows this emperor mounted on a horse.
Who is Marcus Aurelius?
500
The Pont de Gard at Nimes served as a bridge and this.
What is an Aqueduct?