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western art test1
Rome
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
10/17/2007

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Augustus and the Birth of an Empire happened at....
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27 BCE-180 CE
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Aeneid
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, Virgil, 19 bce
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pietas 
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religous observance
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virtus  
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masculine values
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aqueduct
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roman water systems
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oculus
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"eye" opening on top of dome. (in pantheon)
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coffered ceiling
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ceiling made of broken up squares in a grid
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[image]
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Augustus of Primaporta,  early 1st c bce marble

 

portrait. not ARTSY ART like the greeks 

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Voussoir

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A voussoir is a wedge-shaped element, typically a stone, used in building an arc
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[image]
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Pont du Gard, Nîmes, France, late 1st c bce

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[image]
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Colosseum, Rome, 72-80 ce
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[image]
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Pantheon, Rome, 125-128 ce

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