Etruscan Vocab

Question 1

sculptures in the round placed on the roof

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acroterion

Question 2

literally, a ‘‘city of the dead’’, a large burial place

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necropolis

Question 3

a painting techique that involves applying paint onto a freshly plastered wall; the paint formsa bond with the plaster and becomes durable and lon-lasting

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fresco

Question 4

a type of limestone

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tufa

Question 5

burial mounds in etruscan architecture,

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tumulus

Question 6

a dining table in ancient italy that has a couch on three sides for reclining at meals

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triclinium

Question 7

an order of ancient architecture featuring slender, smooth wooden coloumns that sit on simplebases; no carvings on frieze or capitals

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tuscan

Question 8

the semicircular rounded end of a basilica or the endpoint of a church where the altar is located

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apse

Question 9

a row of arches

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arcade

Question 10

an open-air coutyard in a Roman house or forum

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atrium

Question 11

in Roman and Christian architecture, an axially planned building with a long nave, side asles, and apses

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bascilica

Question 12

a sculpture depicting a head, neck, and upper chest

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bust

Question 13

an underground passageway used for burial

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catacomb

Question 14

the top of a church nave that is windowed and lets in light

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clestory

Question 15

in architecture, a sunken panel in a ceiling to lighten the weight of the ceiling

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coffer

Question 16

small underground rooms in catacombs serving as mortuary chapels or a roman bedroom flanking an atrium

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cubicala

Question 17

a rounded, circular roof; achieved by rotating an arch on its axis 180 degrees

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cupola/dome

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a column that i still attached toa wall

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engaged column

Question 19

a visual effect in which an object is shortened and turned deeper into the picture plane to give the effect of receding in space

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foreshortening

Question 20

a public square with market plave in roman city

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forum

Question 21

a retangular basin in a roman house that is placed in the open-air atrium inorder to collect rain water

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impluvium

Question 22

the center stone of an arch that holds the others in place

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keystone

Question 23

a crescent-shaped space, somtimes over a dorrway that contains scuplture or apinting

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lunette

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a decoration using pieces of stone, marble or colored, glass called tesserane that are cemented to a wall or floor

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mosaic

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the main alse of a church

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nave

Question 26

a round opening at the top of a dome

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oculus

Question 27

a figure with its hands raised in prayer

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orant figure

Question 28

an atrium surrounded by columns in a Roman house

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peristyle

Question 29

depth and ression in a painting

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perspective

Question 30

a scuptureed represntation of the upper part of the human figure including the head and neck andusually part od the shoulders and breast

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portait bust

Question 31

a transparent colorless gypsum that looks like glass and was often used in windows

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seleite