Roman Vocabulary and Art

Vocabulary/Terminology

Aqueduct

Amphitheater

Apotheosis

Apse

Atmospheric Perspective

Barrel Vault

Basilica

Clerestory

Coffers

Concrete

Foreshortening

Forum

The Four Styles of Pompeian Wall Paintings (First, Second, Third, Fourth)

Groin Vault

Linear Perspective

Mithraism

Mosaic

Oculus

Patrician

Personification

Pompeii (a city)

Round Arch 

Sarcophagus

SPQR

Still Life Painting

Triumphal Arch

Date


6th c. BC- Expulsion of the Etruscan Kings and establishment of the Roman Republic
1st c. BCE - Augustus became the first Roman Emperor

Art and Architecture

Head of a Roman Patrician

Dionysiac Mystey Frieze

Augustus of Primaporta 

Ara Pacis Augustae

Pont-du-Gard

Colosseum

Arch of Titus

Column of Trajan

Pantheon

Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius

Battle of Romans and barbarians (Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus)

Portraits of the four tetrarchs

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