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Vocabulary 3
Vocabulary for the Final Exam
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
03/10/2013

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Cinerary Urn
Definition
pot for cremated ashes
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Canopic Urn
Definition
special pot for cremated ashes with a head (person or animal) as the lid
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Sarcophagus
Definition
"consumer of flesh"

A coffin, usually of stone
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Tuscan Order
Definition
[image]
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Republican Virtues
Definition
dignitas, severitas, auctoritas, Romanitas
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Dignitas
Definition
The title for Roman honour
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Severitas
Definition
the ability to do without, live on nothing
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Auctoritas
Definition
a persons ability to rally support around his will
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Romanitas
Definition
the quality of being a Roman
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Verism
Definition
True to natural appearance, super-realistic
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Classicalism
Definition
the art and culture of ancient Greece, refers more generally to Greco-Roman art and culture
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imago/imagines
Definition
in ancient Rome, wax portraits of ancestors
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Freedman/Freedwomen
Definition
in ancient and medieval society, men and women who had been freed from servitude, as opposed to having been born free
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Capitolium
Definition
An ancient Roman temple dedicated to the gods Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva
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cardo
Definition
the north-south street in a Roman town, intersecting the decumanus at right angles
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decumanus
Definition
the east-west street in a Roman town, intersecting the cardo at right angles
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Domus
Definition
the type of house occupied by the upper classes and some wealthy freedmen
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Villa
Definition
working establishment
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Insula
Definition
apartment house
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Masonry
Definition
Roman Wall painting c.200-60 BCE
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Architectural
Definition
Roman Wall painting c.60-20 BCE
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Ornate (Candleabrum)
Definition
Roman Wall painting c.20 BCE- 60 AD
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Intricate
Definition
Roman Wall painting c.60-79 AD
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megalography
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Trajan Inscription
Definition
The inscription of king Trajans conquests on the bottom on the Trajan column
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Victory Arch
Definition
Titus: Attic, a dedication inscription
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basilica
Definition
a public building for legal and other civic proceeding, rectangular in plan with an entrance usually on a long side. In Christian architecture the church somewhat resembling the Roman basilica usually entered from one end and with an apse at the other
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Rotunda
Definition
The circular area under a dome; also a domed building
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Attic
Definition
The uppermost story of a building, triumphal arch, or city gate, carved on 3 sides
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Asiatic sarcophogus
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Principate
Definition
the first period of the Roman Empire, extending from the beginning of the reign of Augustus Caesar to the Crisis of the Third Century, after which it was replaced with the Dominate
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Dominate
Definition
the "despotic" latter phase of government in the ancient Roman Empire from the conclusion of the Third Century Crisis of 235–284 until the formal date of the collapse of the Western Empire in AD 476
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Edict of Milan
Definition
In February 313, Constantine I, emperor controlling the western part of the Roman Empire and Licinius, controlling the Balkans, met in Milan and, among other things, agreed to treat the Christians benevolently
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Pompeii Red
Definition
Red that was used in art in Pompeii
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porphyry
Definition
an igneous rock with large crystals in a fine-grained matrix, or associated mineral deposit
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encaustic
Definition
A painting technique in which pigment is mixed with melted wax and applied to the surface while the mixture is hot
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Millennium
Definition
a period of a thousand years
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Reliquary
Definition
A container for holding relics
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Pilgrimage church
Definition
a church holding a relic, mostly healing relics, that people pilgrimage to
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barrel (tunnel) vaulting
Definition
semicyndrical in cross-section, is in effect a deep arch or an uninterrupted series of arches, one behind the other, over an oblong space
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radiating chapels
Definition
in medieval churches, chapels for the display of relics that opened directly onto the ambulatory and the transept
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mandorla
Definition
An almoned-shaped nimbus surrounding the figure of Christ or other sacred figure
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Abbot Suger
Definition
one of the last Frankish abbot-statesmen, a historian, and the influential first patron of Gothic architecture
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flying buttress
Definition
consists typically of an inclined member carried on an arch or series of arches and a solid buttress to which it transmits lateral thrust
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pointed (ogival) arch
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rib vaulting
Definition
a vault in which the diagonal and transverse ribs compose a structural skeleton that partially supports the masonry web between them
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rayonnant style
Definition
the "radiant" style of Gothic architecture, dominant in the second half of the 13th century and associated with the French royal court of Lous IX at Paris
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