Roman Art Vocab

Greek "double theater" A roman building type resembling two Greek theaters put together. The Roman amiptheater featured a contious elliptical cavea around a central arena

a building material invented by the Romans and consisting of various proportions of lime mortar, volcanic sand, water, and small stones

painting on lime plaster either dry (dry fresco or fresco secco) or wet (true or buon fresco) In the latter method, the pigments are mixed with water and become chemically bound to the freshly laid lime plaster, Also a painting executed in either manner

In calssical architecture, a colonnade all around the cella and its proches. A peripteral collonnade consists of a single row of columns on all sides; a dipteral colonnade had a double row all around

In Roman architecture, a pseudoperipteral temple has a series of engaged columns all around the sides and back of the cella to give the appearance of a peripteral colonnade

a method of presenting an illusion of 3-D world on 2-D space
lines go to a vanishing pt

In sculpture, figures projecting from a background of which they are part. The degree of relief is designated high low (bas) or sunken. In the last, the artist cuts the design into the surface so that the highest projecting parts of the image are no higher than the service itself

in Roman architecture, a free-standing arch commemorating an important event, such as a military victory or the opening of a new road

a masonary roof or ceiling constructed on the arch principle or a concrete roof of the same shape. A barrel (tunnel) vault semicylindrical in cross section is in effect a deep arch of uninterupted series of arches, one behind the other over an oblong space. A groin vault (cross vault) is formed at the point at which 2 barrel vaults intersect at right angels