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Ancient Aegean Art
Ancient Greece Art
Etruscan Art
Roman Art
100
Type of stonework built with massive limestone boulders.
What is Cyclopean Masonry?
100
Pottery that transports liquids
What is amphora?
100
A sacred place.
What is templum?
100
The borrowing of a variety of styles from different sources and combining them
What is electricism?
200
Formed progressively projecting courses of stone or brick, forms highest part of vault.
What is corbel vaulting?
200
A belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response.
What is rationalism?
200
a small platform on which a person may stand to be seen by an audience, as when making a speech or conducting an orchestra.
What is podium?
200
Artistic preference of contemporary everyday subject matter instead of the heroic or legendary in art and literature; a form of realism
What is verism?
300
A circular building.
What is tholos?
300
An ornamental molding around the wall of a room just below the ceiling.
What is cornice?
300
A column with a simpler base, circular rather than squared as in the other orders.
What is tuscan columns?
300
A circular opening, especially one at the apex of a dome.
What is oculus?
400
The corridor-like entrance passage leading into tholos and chamber tombs.
What is dromos?
400
Able to produce just one kind of effect upon its audience: pleasure.
What is hedonism?
400
A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves as burial mounds.
What is tumulus?
400
A building with a circular ground plan, sometimes covered by a dome; also referred as a round room within a building.
What is rotunda?
500
Ancient art of embossing or pressing shapes into metal to make a design.
What is repousse?
500
Rhetorical device in which characters or events in a literary, visual, or musical art form represent or symbolize ideas and concepts.
What is allegory?
500
A stone coffin, typically adorned with a sculpture or inscription.
What is sarcophagus?
500
Serves a function and is conceptualized in terms of its effects on its audience, such as the creation of specific shared experiences.
What is pragmatism?