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Patrician

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Educated Roman elders of society. Had right to own land. Helped govern Rome.

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Plebeian

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Almost everyone in Ancient Rome who was not a patrician. They were commoners.

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Veristic

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Very naturalistic

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Roman Standards

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Eagle symbol

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Parthia

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Nation in present day Iran. Augustus made peace with them creating the Pax Romana

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Pax Romana

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Roman peace for 150 years brought by Emperor Augustus

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Emperor Vespasian

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Emperor of Ancient Rome and founded the Flavian dynasty

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Emperor Titus

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Emperor Flavian’s son. Finished Flavian Amphitheater.

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Emperor Hadrian

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Had Pantheon built.

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Voussoirs

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The stones that make up an arch

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Keystone

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The stone that holds the arch together at the top.

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Arcade

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A row of arches that are connected together

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Hypogeum

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Part of Colosseum that allowed gladiators and animals to pop up on stage.

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Cella

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It is the room where the god lives in a temple

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Stringcourse

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They are the horizontal bands that divide the stories in the Roman amphitheater.

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Engaged column

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It is a column that is built into a wall, like a sculptural relief, but it provides support. A bit 3D

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Pilaster

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Like an engaged column, but it does not provide support and is only decorative. It is flat.

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Barrel vault

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Arches that are placed next to each other to make a tunnel. They create a wall with a smooth ceiling that is curved upwards

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Groin vault

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They are like barrel vaults, but instead of being smooth, they have X patterns. They are the result of two barrel vaults crossing each other.

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Coffering

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It is when there are a bunch of squares, rectangles, or octagons sunken into a ceiling

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Oculus

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A circular hole in a wall or dome

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Facade

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Exterior of building

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Rotunda

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A roofed building with a circular ground plan

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Jesus of Nazareth

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You know who this is

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Tiberius
Ancient Roman emperor who was the stepson of Augustus
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Catacombs
Underground tombs where Christians would bury their dead.
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Fresco
Painting technique where you paint directly onto wet plaster.
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The Edict of Milan
Gave people religious freedom in the Roman Empire
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Basilica
A building that could hold a lot of people and could be used for many purposes, such as court, church, play.
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Nave
The central part of a church
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Apse
It is the curved area where the preacher stands (like the painting of Jesus at our old church)
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Transept
It is a part of the church that lies across the main part of the church. It makes the church look like a cross from a bird’s eye view. It gives the church arms.
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Crossing
It’s where the nave and the transept in a church meet
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Clerestory
Windows that are super high up on a wall
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Constantinople/Istanbul
Capital of Ancient Rome
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Illuminated manuscript
A book from the Middle Ages that was decorated and illustrated a lot.
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Vellum
Animal skin used to make paper in the Middle Ages.
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Pilgrimage
People going on a journey, usually to go somewhere that is sacred to them.
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Relic
A very old object
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Reliquary
Container for relics
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Pointed arch
An arch with a point at the tip
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Pointed ribbed vault
It is like a groin vault, but there are lines across the ceiling in between each X shape. It kind of looks like the Xs are in a box
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Flying buttresses
They are buttresses, but they have more stone sticking out of its side to support it.
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Florence, Italy
The capital of Early Renaissance Italy
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The book On Architecture
A book by Vitruvius about architecture
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Chiaroscuro
Art technique of having strong contrasts between light and dark.
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Linear perspective
Things get smaller the farther away they are
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Atmospheric perspective
Things get fuzzier the farther away they are
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Orthogonals
Perpendicular and right angled
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Vanishing point
The spot where everything in a picture is getting sucked into
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Illusionism
It makes the viewers feel like they are in the same world as the scene in an artwork
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Illusion of recession
Makes art look 3-D
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Memento mori
Latin phrase for “remember you must die
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Medici family
Family in Renaissance that was wealthy and collected lots of art and helped artists
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Francis I
French king who wanted France to have more art to inspire French people to be artists, so he would give Italian artists jobs
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Palazzo Vecchio
Government building in France that used to be next to Michelangelo’s statue of David.
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Pope Julius II
Started rebuilding St. Peter’s Basilica
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Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo painted this. Has picture of God and Adam
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Protestant Reformation
In 1517, 95 theses, Martin Luther, you know this
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Indulgences
Way that the Catholic Church had people pay to get into heaven
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Martin Luther
Started Protestant Reformation
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95 Theses
What Martin Luther nailed to door. 95 things wrong with Catholic Church
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Iconoclast
Belief that art of certain things (often religious) should be destroyed
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Counter Reformation
Catholic’s response to Protestant Reformation
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Council of Trent
Created by Catholic Church to discuss how to do Counter Reformation
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Tenebrism
It is when artworks have important features lit up, and they are surrounded by darkness
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Matthieu Contarelli
Guy who was patron for the Contarelli Chapel
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Caravaggisti
Stylistic movement in art that copied the way Caravaggio did his paintings
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Louis XIV
King of France. Had Palace of Versailles expanded a lor
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Court painter
Painter for people in royalty
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History painting
Painting that depicted a scene from history meant to teach a lesson
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Hierarchy of genres
It is, according to Academie Royale: history painting, portraiture, genre painting, landscape painting, animal painting, still life painting
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The Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture
First art academy in France. Crucial for artists to get into if they wanted to do art for a living. Very competitive though
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The Prix de Rome
French scholarship for students at Academie Royale. Would study art in Rome for free
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The Salon
Art gallery at Academie Royale.

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