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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[image]often referred to simply as Octavian in English texts[image]in 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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