Sculpture
What were the subjects of Roman sculpture?
What is Mythological or Cultural figures.
What is an architectural elements, often supporting a building's horizontal structure or standing as freestanding commemorative monuments?
What are Columns.
What art form was found on wall frescoes and sculptures but much is lost to time?
What is painting.
What pointy tool is used for cutting, incising and scoring?
What is a needle tool.
What was the first technique we used to create our relief sculptures?
What is rolling a slab.
What is the form of 3D art where figures or designs project from a flat, 2D background, remaining attached to it?
What is a key architectural innovation used for practical purposes, such as constructing aqueducts and bridges, and for symbolic monuments?
What are arches.
What art form used small pieces of color glass or stone to create patterns or scenes on floors and walls?
What are mosaics.
What tool is used for cutting clay?
What is a wire tool.
What technique requires you to roll your clay into a ball and then use your fingers to squeeze a pot into shape?
What is Pinch (pinch pot).
What is a concept borrowed from the Greeks, emphasizing harmonious mathematical proportions, balance, and naturalistic movement?
What are monumental structures, made possible by the invention of concrete, that created vast interior spaces in buildings?
What are Domes.
What art form showed realistic human forms, mythological scenes and decorative reliefs in marble, concrete and bronze?
What is sculpture.
What tool is used for rolling out flat slabs of clay?
What is Slip and Score.
List one example of a Roman sculpture that we discussed in class.
What is Discobolos (Discus Thrower)
What is Parthenon Relief
What is River God Tiber
What is Apollo Belvedere
What is Roman Busts
List one examples of roman architecture that we discussed in class.
What is the Pantheon Dome
What is the Pont du Gard
What is Trajan’s Column
What art proved Romans were innovators in building structures like domes, arches, columns and aqueducts?
What is architecture.
What smaller tool is used to mainly trim away clay but used to hollow out shapes?
What is a ribbon tool.
What technique requires rolling out a long snake-like piece of clay that is spiraled together to make bowls or other 3D forms?
What is Coil (coil bowl).
How do Roman sculptures look different now versus when they were originally created?
What is they do not have paint anymore.
What is they were painted.
What is they are white now.
What were the Romans known to use as a newer material for the structures?
What is concrete.
Who were the Romans mostly influenced by in their art?
Who are the Greeks.
What tool is used to remove controlled amounts of clay?
What is a loop tool.
What is it called when you throw the clay on a hard surface to remove any unseen air bubbles?
What is wedging.