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| Latin, "Jaws." In a Roman house, the narrow foyer leading to the attrium. |
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| The central reception room of a Roman house that is partly open to the sky. Also the open, colonaded court in front of and attached to a Christian basilica |
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| In a Roman house, the basin located in the atrium that collected rainwater |
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| A space left unroofed over the court of a Roman dwelling, through which the rain fell into theimpluvium or cistern. |
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| A small cubicle or bedroom that opened onto the atrium of a Roman house. Also, a chamber in an in an early christain catacomb that served as a mortuary chapel. |
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| A rectangular recess at the back of the atrium |
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| The Study or office in a Roman house |
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| The Dining room of a roman house |
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| In classical architecture, a columnade all around the cella and its porches. A peripteral colonade consists of a single row of columns on all sides; a dipteral colonnade has double row and around. |
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| In roman architecture, a public building for legal and other civic proceedings, rectangular in plan with an entrance usually on a long side. In Christian architecture, a church somewhat resembling the roman basilica, usually entering from one end and with an apse at the other |
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| First Style Roman Painting |
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| The earliest style of roman mural painting. Also called the masonary style, because the aim of the artist was to imitate, using painted stucco relief, appearance of costly marble pannels |
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| Second Style Roman Painting |
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The style of Roman mural painting in which the aim was to dissolve the confining walls of a room and replace them with the illusion of a three-dimentional world constructed in the artists imagination |
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| Third Style Roman Wall Painting |
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| In roman mural painting, the style in which delicate linear fantasies were sketched on predominantly monochromatic backgrounds |
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| Fourth Style Roman Wall Painting |
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| In Roman mural painting, the Fourth Style marks a return to architectural illusionism, but the architectural vistas of the fourth Style are irrational fantasies |
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| Recessed area, usually semicircular |
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| Aerial perspective or atmospheric perspective refers to the effect the atmosphere has on the appearance of an object as it is viewed from a distance |
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| An uneasy peace, as one imposed by a powerful state on a weaker or vanquished state. |
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| The uppermost story of a building, triumphal arch, or city gate |
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First emperor of Rome (27 bc-ad 14) and grandnephew of Julius Caesar. Born Gaius Octavius, he took the name Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus often referred to simply as Octavian in English textsin 44 after Caesar's assassination. He defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra in 31 and subsequently gained control over the empire. In 27 he was named emperor and given the honorary title Augustus. |
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| she poisoned whoever interfered with her plans. |
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| To give a rustic appearance by roughening the surfaces and beveling the edges of stone blocks to emphasize the joints between them. Rustication is a technique employed in ancient Roman architecture, and was also popular during the Renaissance, especially from stone courses at the ground-floor level. |
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| a monumental archway; usually they are built to commemorate some notable victory |
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| The roughly triangular space enclosed by the curves of adjacent arches and a horizontal member connecting their vertexes; also, the space enclosed by the curve of an arch and an enclosing right angle. The area between the arch proper and the framing columns and entablature. |
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| A capital combining Ionic volutes and Corinthian acanthus leaves, first used by the ancient romans |
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| Elevated to the rank of gods, or the ascent to heaven |
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| Flavians- Vespasian,Titus,Domitian |
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| a dynasty of Roman Emperors from 69 to 96 including Vespasian and his sons Titus and Domitian |
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| The roman decree condeming those who ran afoul of the senate. Those who suffered damnatio memoriae had their memorials demolished and their names erased from public inscriptions |
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| Roman emperor (98-117) whose reign was marked by an extensive building program and compassionate treatment of the poor. |
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| depicting or representing a person on horseback an equestrian statue |
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