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Sculpture
Commemorative Architecture
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Religious/Domestic Archiceture
100
One of the portrait types most characteristic of Rome was the head detached from the body.
What is the bust
100
This monuments frieze is an informative historical record of life in the Roman army.
What is Trajan's Column
100
This public building was primarily for public spectacles
What is the Colosseum
100
This man agreed with Plato that art was mere imitation and therefore inferior to nature
What is Marcus Aurelius
100
Roman apartment blocks were called this
What is insulae
200
The most impressive surviving example of an equestrian monument
What is the statue of Marcus Aurelius
200
These reliefs were moved from earlier monuments in honor of other emperors.
What is spolia
200
The Colosseum's ground floor contained these columns, which are a later development of Doric
What is the Tuscan column
200
These are the most significant legacies of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
What is murals
200
The most innovative Roman temple
What is Pantheon
300
This type of funerary monument was used by the Etruscans
What is the sarcofophagus
300
This monuments columns are of the composite order
What is the Arch of Titus
300
These buildings apses contained statues of gods or emperors
What is the Basilica
300
This style began under the Republic and continued into the Early Empire
What is the second style
300
All of Rome's architecture was possible because of the creation of this substance
What is concrete
400
This emperor's sculpture is portrayed as a general addressing his troops.
Who is Augustus of Prima Porta
400
The purpose of this monument was used to celebrate the "Peace of Augustus"
What is the Ara Pacis (Altar of Peace)
400
This Roman Forum became the prototype for all later imperial forums.
What is the Forum Julium
400
This country villa contains the best examples of second style paintings
What is the Villa Mysteries
400
the coffers in the Pantheon were originally painted this color
What is blue
500
This type of marble is white with purple veins and was used to carve a barbarian figure.
What is pavonazzetto marble
500
These commemorative monuments had been used from the Hellenistic period onward
What is colossal columns
500
This Roman bathing complex was approximately 35 acres.
What is the Baths of Caracalla
500
This Roman house contains a mural of the Greek myth of infant Hercules strangling a pair of snakes
What is the House Vettii in Pompeii
500
Latin for "eye," this opening illuminated the vast domed space in the Pantheon
What is the oculus