The Annotated Mona Lisa: Pages 16 - 17

Question 1

What did Roman architects invent?

Answer 1

• the arch, barrel vault, groin vault, and post-and-lintel

Question 2

Baths of Caracalla

Answer 2

• A.D. 215

- a capacity crowd of 1,600 bathed in pools of varying water temperatures

Question 3

Column of Trajan

Answer 3

• A.D. 106-113

- 650 foot long relief, commemorating mass slaughter in more than 150 scenes

Question 4

Basilica

Answer 4

• an oblong building with semicircular apses on either end and high clerestory windows, used as a meeting place in Roman times and widely imitated in medieval Christian churches

Question 5

Barrel Vaul

Answer 5

• deep arch forming a half-cylindrical roof

Question 6

Groin Vault

Answer 6

• two intersecting barrel vaults at the same height that form a right angle