Roman Art
Roman Arch
Late Antiquity
Byz Art
Byz Arch
100
What is the Head of a Roman Patrician?
100
This monumental structure is famously designed to perfectly accommodate a complete sphere within its interior rotunda, utilizing lightweight volcanic rock called scoria towards the apex of its dome to reduce structural weight.
What is the Pantheon?
100
This biblical scene, found carved on the wooden doorway of Santa Sabina, is considered by art historians to be one of the very first depictions of the subject in Christian art.
What is the crucifix?
100
This artistic device, popularized in the ancient world and used in the Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well folio, allows successive scenes—such as Rebecca leaving the city and then assisting Eliezer—to be portrayed together in a single illustration.
What is continuous narration?
100
The kind of plan that San Vitale uses
What is a central plan?
200
The mosaic of Alexander the Great was originally found here.
What is Pompeii? (floor of a mansion)
200
constructed on the site of an artificial lake belonging to the palace of the unpopular Emperor Nero
What is the Colosseum?
200
The Catacomb of Priscilla and the nave arcade spandrels of Santa Sabina both feature iconography referencing this Christian ritual involving bread and wine
What is the Eucharist?
200
Vienna Genesis was considered a luxury item, partially because its parchment was dyed this color, which was associated with royalty and empire
What is purple?
200
This building has had many functions from church to mosque to museum.
What is Hagia Sophia?
300
The name for the pose taken by Augustus Primaporta to show his authority.
What is an orator's pose?
300
this complex was the final and largest of the Roman fora and was entirely financed by the spoils (manubiae) from the Dacian Wars
What is the Forum of Trajan?
300
This name is given to the large burial rooms in the Catacomb of Priscilla, such as the one containing the earliest known representation of the Madonna and child.
What is cubiculum?
300
This 6th-century painting, preserved at Saint Catherine’s Monastery, owes its survival from the Byzantine Iconoclasm to its location far from the capital
What is the Icon with Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George
300
The mosaics in San Vitale famous picture these Byzantine leaders.
Who are Justinian and Theodora?
400
Alexander the Great's mosaic uses opus vermiculatum to accomplish this task within the mosaic.
What is curves/realistic shapes?
400
oteworthy in its architectural plan because it lacks the traditional office space
What is the House of Vetti?
400
figure represented in the shallow dome of a ceiling within the Catacomb of Priscilla in a stance reminiscent of contrapposto
Who is the Good Shepard?
400
This French term, which literally means "partitioned," describes the technique used on Merovingian looped fibulae where an artisan soldered wires onto a metal base to hold inlaid semi-precious stones
What is cloisonné?
400
This structure allows the dome at Hagia Sophia to be stable. It supports a round dome to be placed on a square building.
What is a pendentive?
500
This term is used to describe the hyperrealism used on the Head of a Roman Patrician.
What is verism?
500
ectangular civic hall, named after Emperor Trajan’s family (gens Ulpia), bisected its complex and featured an interior with a double surround of 96 columns
What is the Basilica Ulpia?
500
rchitectural element of the Basilica of Santa Sabina consists of columns reused from ancient pagan buildings (spolia)
What is the nave arcade (or the glorious columns that line the nave)?
500
highly ornamental pages featuring a large cross set against teeming ornamentation found at the beginning of each Gospel in The Lindisfarne Gospels are known by this name
What are cross-carpet pages?
500
Term to describe communion of Christ - a common feature/theme in Byzantine Art
What is the Eucharist?