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Small, covered Greek theaters

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Odeon

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The capital city of Mycenaean civilization

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Troy

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A sculpture carved from the chest up; usually with a pedestal base

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Bust

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A type of sculpture made of ivory and gold

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Chryselyphantum

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A clay mold technique mainly for frontal figures typified by a front facing head similar to the Egyptian “law of frontality”

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Daedalic Stule

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Roman counterpart to the Greek agore

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Metope

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Chief building material of the Greeks

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Marble

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A roman bath house

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Thermae

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Columns with twisted shafts

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Solomonic shafts

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An upper story projecting window supported by corbels

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Oriel window

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Literally means rebirth

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Renaissance

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Also known as proto-baroque

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Mannerism

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13
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An underground water garden

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Grotto

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14
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Popular motif used during the Rococo period

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Cockleshell

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The lower 1/3 of a wall

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Dado

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Reigning monarch during the French Neo-classic period

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Francis XVI

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The Villa Capra or Rotonda (architect)

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Andrea Palladio

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The Monticello (architect)

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Thomas Jefferson

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The Versailles Palaceo (architects)

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Charles Le Brun

Francois Mansart

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The Dome of the Cathedral of Florenceo (architect)

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Filippo Brunelleschi

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Tempiettoo (architect)

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Donato Bramante

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St. Paul’s Cathedralo (architect)

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Christopher Wren

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Facade of the St. Peter’s Basilicao (architect)

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Carlo Madera

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Petit Trianono (architect)

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Gabriel

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Capitoline Hillo (architect)

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Michelangelo di Buonarotti

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Paris Opera Houseo (architect)

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Charles Garnier

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Gardens of Versailleso (architect)

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Andre’ le Notre

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Palazzo Rucellaio (architect)

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Leon Battista Alberti

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Fountain of Trevio (architect)

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Gianlorenzo Bernini

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Sub period in prehistoric painting wherein cave paintings were developed; presence of gender and specie identification

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Paleolithic

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Type of support formed by a series of arches placed consecutively

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Vault

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A Mesopotamian truncated pyramid with a shrine on top

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Ziggurat

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Egyptian tombs for pharoahs

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Pyramids

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Egyptian law that decrees that the body of a figure in the round must not be twisted in any way

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Law of Frontality

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The worship of many gods

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Polytheism

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Ancient form of Egyptian writing using pictographs

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Heiroglyphics

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Group of people that continually shifts their place of abode in search for food

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Nomad

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Egyptian temples devoted to the worship of the pharaoh as a god

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Mortuary

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Wedge-shaped writing found in Mesopotamia

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Cuneiform

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A pillared hall in w/c the roof rests on column and is applied to the many columned hall of an Egyptian temple

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Hypostyle

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A type of support made of mud, brick, or cement; each side rises from the top of a side wall in a curve, and meets the curve from the other side wall in the center

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Arch

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Considered as the fertile crescent

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Mesopotamia

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Chief building material of Egypt

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Limestone

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Religious art representing Christ, the Virgin, the saints, the apostles that flourished during the Byzantine period

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Iconography

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Painting on wet plaster

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Fresco

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Romanesque grotesque attached to downspouts with the body of a monkey, the wings of a bat and the head of a monster

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Gargoyle

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Period in history where icons where destroyed

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Iconoclastic age

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Sculptural material used extensively during the Byzantine period

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Ivory

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A type of carving in which the design is made prominent by raising it form the background

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Embossed

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Type of prehistoric magic used to appease the gods

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Propriation

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The capital city of Assyria

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Nineveh

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Earliest symbol for Christians

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Ichtus

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Male sculptures used as columns

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Atlantes

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Castles (period)

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Romanesque

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The Flavian Amphitheater (period)

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Roman

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Cathedral of Notre Dame (period)

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Gothic

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Church of the Holy Wisdom (period)

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Byzantine

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Hanging Gardens of Babylon (period)

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Babylonian

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Manila Cathedral (Period)

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Romanesque

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Mud huts (period)

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Paleolithic

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Pantheon (period)

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Roman

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Parthenon (period)

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Greek

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Pyramids at Giza (period)

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Egyptian

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Reed houses (period)

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Pre-porto Sumerian

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San Sebastian Church (period)

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Gothic

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Thermae of Caracalla (period)

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Roman

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Ziggurat of Ur (period)

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Sumerian

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Optical illusion perceived only in the shafts of Doric columns

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