Review And Ertruscan Vocab Flashcards
Principles of art
Balance Harmony Variety Contrast Movement
Elements of art
Line Form Color Texture Shape
Order of the Parthenon
Doric
Architects of Parthenon
Kallikrates and iktonos
Date of the roman colosseum
80 bc
How long did it take to build the roman colosseum
10 yrs
Three influences that are combined in the Gemma Augustea
- Idealized heroicism of Classical Greek art
- dramatic action of Hellenistic art
- roman realism and depiction of historical events
Earliest amphitheater located?
Pompeii, Italy
Where is the fauces located in a Roman house?
The throat of the house
First style of roman painting characteristic
Painted stucco to look like marble
Second style of roman painting
Creates 3D world illusion through pictorials
Third style of roman painting
Delicate linear fantasies
Fourth
Obsession with illusions “irrational fantasies”
Acroterion
Architectural ornament placed on a flat base called the acoter or plinth, and mounted the apex of pediment of a building in classical style
Fibula
Of unique shape used to fasten a woman’s gown at the shoulder
Granulation
Decorative technique in which tiny metal balls are fused to a metal surface
Necropolis
Cemeteries in an orderly manner along a network of streets making effect of city of the dead
Tumulus
Tomb taking the shape of a mound
Arcuated gateway
Became a major architectural type: used by Etruscans and later the Romans Arches
Chimera
Monster of Greek invention with head and body of a lion and rail of a serpent and a second head of a goat
Cista
Cylindrical container made of sheet bronze with cast handles and feet- used for women’s toilet articles
Voussoir
Trapezoidal stone used in early Greece and Mesopotamia
