Art History Test 2

Arch masonry structure. A vault made by projecting courses of stone. Each course of stone projects slightly above the other til they meet

An ancient Greek or Roman jar for storing oil or wine, with an egg-shaped body and two curved handles.

An Archaic statue of a young woman. Greek and Aegean.

An Archaic statue of a young man or boy. Greek and Aegean.

A triangular Gable in classical Greek found over porticos, windows or doors.

In Greek architecture, a surrounding colonnade. A peristyle building is surrounded on the exterior by a colonnade. A peristyle court is an open colonnaded courtyard, often having a pool or garden.

The carved or painted rectangular panel between the triglyphs of a Doric frieze.

Aegean and Greek.

Rectangular block between the metopes of a Doric frieze. Identified by three carved vertical grooves, which approximate the appearance of the end of wooden beams.

The principle interior room at the center of a Greek or Roman temple within which the cult statue was usually housed. Also called the naos.

A slight swelling of the shaft of a Greek column. The optical illusion of entasis makes the column appear to be straight from a distance.

The column shaft can be fluted or smooth-surfaced and has no base. Consists of an undecorated echinus and abacus. Plain architrave, a frieze with metopes and triglyphs, and a simple cornice.

The column of this order has a base, fluted shaft, and a capital decorated with volutes. Entablature consists of an architrave of three panels and moldings, a frieze containing a sculpted relief ornament, and a cornice with dentils.

The middle element of an entablature, between the architrave and the cornice. Usually decorated with sculpture, paintings, or moldings. Also, any continuous flat band of relief sculpture or painted decoration.

Classical convention or representing human figures with opposing alternations of tension and relaxation.

Greek goddess of victory in war.

a heavy, rough building material made from a mixture of broken stone or gravel, sand, cement, and water, that can be spread or poured into molds and that forms a stonelike mass on hardening. Arch of Titus from Roman period was made of concrete.

Refers to a highly detailed style of art in Roman/Byzantine time that seeks to create a convincing illusion of physical reality by describing its visual appearance meticulously. Appears to be life-like.

a vault, having a circular plan and usually in the form of a portion of a sphere, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions. Ex: Hagia Sophia (Roman)

an arch formed in a continuous curve, especially in a semicircle.

Barrel or tunnel vault: an elongated or continuous semicircular vault, shaped like a halfcylinder.

When two barrel-vaults intersect each other, a groin vault is created.

a monumental archway, often erected in permanent materials as a commemorative structure, straddling the line of march of a victorious army during a triumphal procession.

Any building constructed in a circular shape, usually creating an interior dome.

A Recessed decorative panel used to decorate ceilings or vaults.

In Roman architecture, a circular opening. Usually found as windows or at the apex of a dome. When at the top of a dome, it is open to the sky.

A large, rectangular building. Originally Roman centers for administration, later Christian church use. Has an apse, colonnades, and a nave.

a large semicircular or polygonal recess in a church, arched or with a domed roof, typically at the eastern end, and usually containing the altar.

A system for representing a three dimensional space on a two dimensional surface. Like painting a window and a landscape on a flat wall.

The method of giving a painting the impression of recession just by visual instinct, instead of using an actual program or mathematics.

Rulers and leaders depicted ideologically, geometrically abstracted, with no sure likeness. Embody power, harshness, and character of the ruler.

The concave triangular section of a vault that forms the transition between a square space and the circular base of the dome.

Early Christian/Byzantine

An image representing a sacred figure or event in the Byzantine church. Icons are worshiped, and they are believed to be a link to the Divine.

Early Christian/Byzantine

Is the prohibition and destruction of works of visual art, usually because they are inappropriate in religious contexts.

Byzantine.

Early Christian/Byzantine

the area of a cruciform church lying at right angles to the principal axis.

Early Christian/Byzantine

A masonry support made of many stones, or rubble and concrete. Often Square or rectangular. Capable of carrying heavy architectural loads. Early Christian/Byzantine