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| the portion of a church flanking the nave and separated from it by a row of columns or piers |
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| literally, a double theater. A roman building type resembling to Greek theaters put together. The Roman amphitheater featured a continuous elliptical cavea (seating area) around a central arena |
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| Elevated to the rank of gods or the ascent to heaven |
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| a recess usually singular and semi-circular, in the wall of a roman basilica or at the east end of a Christian Church |
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| a curved structual member that spans an opening an is generally composed of wedge-shaped blocks (voussoirs) that transmit the downward pressure laterally |
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| a technique in painting to suggest a recession in space by increasingly blurring the appearance of objects in the distance |
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| the court of a roman house that is partly open to the sky. also the open colonnaded court in front of and attached to a christian basilica |
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| in architectural terminology, the uppermost story |
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| also called a tunnel vault; an extension of a simple arch |
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| in roman architecture, a public building for assemblies, rectangular in a plan with an entrance usually on a long side. In christian architecture, a church resembling the roman basilica, usually entered from one end with an apse at the other |
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| an exterior masonry structure that opposes the lateral thrust of an arch or vault |
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| the hot-bath section of a roman bathing establishment |
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| a Roman military encampment, famed for the precision with which it was planned and laid out |
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| sunken panel, often ornamental, in a soffit, a vault or a ceiling |
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| a capital with an ornate combination of ionic volutes and Corinthian acanthus leaves that became popular in roman time |
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| building material invented by the romans and consisting of various proportions of lime mortar, volcanic sand, water, and small stones |
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| in painting or sculpture, the convention of the same figure appearing more than once in the same space at different stages in a story |
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| a small cubical or bedroom that opened into the atrium of a roman house. also a chamber in an early christian catacomb that served as a mortuary chapel |
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| a breastplate. in roman art, the emblem of a military officer |
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| the roman decree condemning 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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| the E-W street in a roman town intersecting the cardo (N-S) at right angles |
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| the standard roman silver coin |
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| a hemispheric vault, theoretically an arch rotated on its vertical axis |
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| 'Golden house' the emperor Nero's extravagant villa in rome |
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| recessed area usually semi-circ |
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| a page of a manuscript or book |
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| the public square of an ancient roman city |
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| in ancient and medieval society, the class of men and women who had been freed from servitude, as opposed to having been born free |
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| the cold-bath section of a roman bathing establishment |
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| in ancient rome, wax portraits of ancestors |
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| latin meaning "commander in chied" from which the word emperor is derived |
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| in a roman house, the basin located in the atrium that collected rainwater. |
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| the bart of a church between the chief entrance and choir, demarcated from aisles by piers or columns. |
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| the round central opening or "eye" of a dome |
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| freeborn wealthy landowners of the roman republic |
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| in the roman republic, the social class that included small farmers, merchants and freed slaves |
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| a latin term meaning "chief priest" of the state religion, literally the term meaning "chief bridge builder" |
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| literally "first citizen" a title used by Octavian Augustus |
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| in roman architecture a series of engaged columns all around the sides and back of the cella to give the appearance of a periteral colonnade |
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| literally, a council of elders, the legislative body in roman constitutional government |
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| the space created by the curve of an arch and an enclosing right angle |
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| the dining room in a roman house |
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| French for 'fool the eye' a form of illusionist painting that aims to deceive viewers |
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| the cloth awning that could be rolled out to cover the cavea at the amphitheater |
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| from the latin 'verus' meaning TRUTH truh particularly in Roman portraiture. |
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