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Etruscan + Rome Flashcards

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Cylindrical containers used by wealthy women as cases for toiletry

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Cistae

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Central courtyard

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Atrium

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Circular pannels

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Roundels

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Rectangular, columnlike upright strips

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Pilasters

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Unfluted shaft and simplified version of Doric Order

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Tuscan Order

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Combination of Ionic Order with leaves of the Corinthian Orders

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Composite Order

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Base or pedistol of a column, statue, wall, building, or peice of furniture

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Plinth

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Lower part of a wall, differentiated from upper section

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Dado

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Interest in faithful reproduction of visual and tactile appearance of subjects

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Vernism

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Ser into the wall

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Engaged

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Arch that displaces most weight along curving side

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Round arches

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Outward pressure caused by weight of vault and supported by buttressing

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Thrust

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13
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Wedge shaped peices in an arch

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Voussoirs

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Added support to an arch

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Buttressing

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Wooden scaffolding holding an arch in place until it’s locked together

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Centering

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Points from where curves of the arch rises

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Springings

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Wall areas adjacent to the arch

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Spandrel

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Empty space encompassed by the arch

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Arcade

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19
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Supports of the arch

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Bay

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A gemstone carved in low relief

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Cameo

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Monumental tomb

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Mausoleum

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Roman Town center

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Forum

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Pool for catching rain water

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Impluvium

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Hand-held support for artists to mix colors

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Pallette

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Method of giving thr impression of reception by visual instinct

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Intuitive perspective

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Method of rendering the effect od spacial distance

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Atmospheric perspective

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Seven branched lamp holder

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Menorah

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Tunnel made of arches

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Barrel vault

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2/4-way barrel vault

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Groin vault

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Rounded vault

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Dome

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Circular opening

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Oculus

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Gilded-bronze shield-shaped ornaments

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Cartouches

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Technique for rapidly cutting grooves with straight sides

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Drill work

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Large rectangular building with extensive interior space

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Basilica

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Large central area

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Nave

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Rounded extensions at each end of a building

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Apses

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Circular room

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Rotunda

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Sunken pannels

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Coffers

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Niches; rectangular alternating with semicircular ones

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Exedrae

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Technique in sculpture in which material is cut back under edges so remaining forms cast deep shadows

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Undercutting

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Pair of pannels attatched with hinges; used for sending nmeszages written in wax

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Diptych

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Wealthy and powerful upperclass in the Republic

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Patricians

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Lower class in the Republic

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Plebeians

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Widely circulated coin in Rome

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Denarius

45
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Torso armor

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Cuirass

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