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Small, covered Greek theaters

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Odeon

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The capital city of Mycenaean civilization

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Troy

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A sculpture carved from the chest up; usually with a pedestal base

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Bust

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A type of sculpture made of ivory and gold

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Chryselyphantum

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A clay mold technique mainly for frontal figures typified by a front facing head similar to the Egyptian “law of frontality”

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Daedalic Stule

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Roman counterpart to the Greek agore

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Metope

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Chief building material of the Greeks

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Marble

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A roman bath house

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Thermae

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Columns with twisted shafts

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Solomonic shafts

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An upper story projecting window supported by corbels

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Oriel window

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Literally means rebirth

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Renaissance

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Also known as proto-baroque

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Mannerism

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An underground water garden

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Grotto

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Popular motif used during the Rococo period

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Cockleshell

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The lower 1/3 of a wall

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Dado

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Reigning monarch during the French Neo-classic period

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Francis XVI

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The Villa Capra or Rotonda (architect)

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Andrea Palladio

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The Monticello (architect)

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Thomas Jefferson

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The Versailles Palaceo (architects)

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Charles Le Brun

Francois Mansart

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The Dome of the Cathedral of Florenceo (architect)

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Filippo Brunelleschi

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Tempiettoo (architect)

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Donato Bramante

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St. Paul’s Cathedralo (architect)

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Christopher Wren

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Facade of the St. Peter’s Basilicao (architect)

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Carlo Madera

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Petit Trianono (architect)

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Gabriel

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Capitoline Hillo (architect)
Michelangelo di Buonarotti
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Paris Opera Houseo (architect)
Charles Garnier
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Gardens of Versailleso (architect)
Andre' le Notre
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Palazzo Rucellaio (architect)
Leon Battista Alberti
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Fountain of Trevio (architect)
Gianlorenzo Bernini
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Sub period in prehistoric painting wherein cave paintings were developed; presence of gender and specie identification
Paleolithic
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Type of support formed by a series of arches placed consecutively
Vault
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A Mesopotamian truncated pyramid with a shrine on top
Ziggurat
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Egyptian tombs for pharoahs
Pyramids
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Egyptian law that decrees that the body of a figure in the round must not be twisted in any way
Law of Frontality
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The worship of many gods
Polytheism
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Ancient form of Egyptian writing using pictographs
Heiroglyphics
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Group of people that continually shifts their place of abode in search for food
Nomad
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Egyptian temples devoted to the worship of the pharaoh as a god
Mortuary
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Wedge-shaped writing found in Mesopotamia
Cuneiform
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A pillared hall in w/c the roof rests on column and is applied to the many columned hall of an Egyptian temple
Hypostyle
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A type of support made of mud, brick, or cement; each side rises from the top of a side wall in a curve, and meets the curve from the other side wall in the center
Arch
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Considered as the fertile crescent
Mesopotamia
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Chief building material of Egypt
Limestone
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Religious art representing Christ, the Virgin, the saints, the apostles that flourished during the Byzantine period
Iconography
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Painting on wet plaster
Fresco
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Romanesque grotesque attached to downspouts with the body of a monkey, the wings of a bat and the head of a monster
Gargoyle
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Period in history where icons where destroyed
Iconoclastic age
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Sculptural material used extensively during the Byzantine period
Ivory
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A type of carving in which the design is made prominent by raising it form the background
Embossed
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Type of prehistoric magic used to appease the gods
Propriation
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The capital city of Assyria
Nineveh
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Earliest symbol for Christians
Ichtus
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Male sculptures used as columns
Atlantes
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Castles (period)
Romanesque
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The Flavian Amphitheater (period)
Roman
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Cathedral of Notre Dame (period)
Gothic
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Church of the Holy Wisdom (period)
Byzantine
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Hanging Gardens of Babylon (period)
Babylonian
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Manila Cathedral (Period)
Romanesque
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Mud huts (period)
Paleolithic
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Pantheon (period)
Roman
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Parthenon (period)
Greek
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Pyramids at Giza (period)
Egyptian
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Reed houses (period)
Pre-porto Sumerian
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San Sebastian Church (period)
Gothic
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Thermae of Caracalla (period)
Roman
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Ziggurat of Ur (period)
Sumerian
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Optical illusion perceived only in the shafts of Doric columns
Entassis

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