Final Vocab

Question 1

frontality

Answer 1

in architecture, a definitive front to a building

Question 2

acroteria

Answer 2

statuary on roof

Question 3

tumulus

Answer 3

round, earthen mound

Question 4

terracotta

Answer 4

baked clay/earth

Question 5

palatine hill

Answer 5

eastern side of rome, little more protected, had settlements

Question 6

bucchero

Answer 6

dull, black pottery from etruscans

Question 7

capitoline hill

Answer 7

northern side of rome

Question 8

opus incertum

Answer 8

irregular shaped bits of stone used to strengthen concrete wall

Question 9

opus reticulatum

Answer 9

“net work,” diamond shape stones in net shaped pattern

Question 10

coffer

Answer 10

square, inset panels to lessen weight of a material

Question 11

campus martius

Answer 11

“field of mars,” where all the troops would gather; mostly empty land

Question 12

verism

Answer 12

hyperrealistic; especially on faces, making people look super old

Question 13

imagines

Answer 13

portraits of deceased ancestors used as masks, made of wax, only of important men

Question 14

oscans

Answer 14

founded Pompeii; local italic ethnic group

Question 15

capitolium

Answer 15

small versions of temple jupiter maximus optimus; rome used them to make it as a roman colony

Question 16

amphitheater

Answer 16

double theater; greek theater building techniques and roman use of concrete

Question 17

impluvium

Answer 17

sunken part of the atrium where water goes

Question 18

first style

Answer 18

imitation of marble, supposed to look like block

Question 19

second style

Answer 19

optical illusions

Question 20

third style

Answer 20

unrealistic architecture; the wall is a wall; monochrome colors

Question 21

fourth style

Answer 21

combo of all the other styles

Question 22

linear perspectives

Answer 22

making it seem like architecture is receding into the distance (illusion of depth)

Question 23

carrara marble

Answer 23

used in augustus’ building programs; from Northern Italy instead of greece

Question 24

pietas

Answer 24

piety; proper religious behaviour

Question 25

apotheosis

Answer 25

process of a mortal becoming a divinity

Question 26

oculus

Answer 26

opening in the top of a dome

Question 27

encaustic

Answer 27

mixing hot wax and pigments to paint

Question 28

insula

Answer 28

apartment buildings of Rome

Question 29

damnatio memoriae

Answer 29

scratching out someone’s memory

Question 30

hypocaust

Answer 30

underfloor heating

Question 31

tetrachy

Answer 31

rule of four men