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Building Basics and Roman Precedents
MEDIEVAL HISTORY
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Architecture
Graduate
09/21/2016

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Roman ‘kit’

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Buildings in Rome,repeated as types.building blocks used to house necessary institutions throughout the cities of the provinces. This regularity also gave a familiar feel – spreading “Romanness”

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Forum

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The center of Roman public life: the site of triumphal processions and elections; the venue for public speeches, criminal trials, and gladiatorial matches; and the nucleus of commercial affairs. Here statues and monuments commemorated the city's great men. The teeming heart of ancient Rome, it has been called the most celebrated meeting place in the world, and in all history.

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Historiated

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historiated initial is an enlarged letter at the beginning of a paragraph or other section of text, which contains a picture. Strictly speaking, an inhabited initial contains figures (human or animal) that are decorative only, without forming a subject, whereas in a historiated initial there is an identifiable figure or a specific scene.

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Oculus

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A circular openning in a dome (or wall)

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Revetment

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The facing of a surface, usually a wall, with stone for ornamentation or protection. 

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Aedicula(e)

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A framing motif consisting of an entablature and pediment supported by two columns

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Hypocaust

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Insula

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Castrum

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typical Roman

military camp, c1st century

BCE; Rectangular plan, walled

area with cardo (north-south

street) meeting at centerxis) and decumanus (main EW

 

 

 

 

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Arcuated 

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Any form of c[image]onstruction using arches
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Trabeated

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An architectural system using a horiz

ontal beam over  supports, as opposed to an arched or arcuated system; synonymous with post and lintel.                          

 

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