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CHAPTER 9 STUDY GUIDE- Etruscan
1) Define the following:
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Tufa
Tumulus
Canopic Urn
2) Roman writers credit the Etruscans as master engineers and architects. Why is so little
known about man of their cities?
3) List (4) forms of architecture the Romans could have learned from the Etruscans?
a.
b.
c.
d.
4) List the structural device credited to the Romans but believed to have been made
respectable by the Etruscans.
5) Etruscan tombs imitated _______________________.
6) Although true Etruscans funerary beliefs are unknown, describe the most prevalent theory
regarding the “body and soul.”
7) Describe Etruscan mural styles as seen in Revelers.
8) Describe the practice of divination.
9) What (3) words best describe the Roman ideal?
10) The (2) cultures whose art strongly influenced that of Rome were ____________________
and __________________________.
11) What is meant by the term “Greco-Roman”?
12) Which of the visual arts did the Roman artist make innovative contributions? What was
the term given to this style?
13) List (4) non-Greek features of the Temple of Foruna Virilis and the Temple of Sybyl.
a.
b.
c.
d.
14) What enabled the Romans to create an “architecture of space rather than sheer mass?”
15) The (2) ancient cities that were buried when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE were
___________________________________ and __________________________________.
16) Briefly describe the plan of a Roman atrium house:
17) The technique used to create the Faiyum portrait is known as _________________________.
18) Describe the French term “Trompe L’Oeil.”
19) Name (3) pictoral devices used by Roman painters to suggest recession and depth:
a.
b.
c.
20) Define the following:
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Insula
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Pax Romana
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Tempera
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Barrel Vault
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Groin Vault
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Coffering
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Tetrarch
21) While the core of the Coliseum is concrete and cut stone, its exterior is constructed of:
22) What is the sequence, from the ground up, were the Greek architectural orders used in
Roman multistoried buildings?
a.
b.
c.
23) What was the function of the Roman Basilica?
24) What revolutionary concept finds its fullest expression in the Roman Pantheon?
25) The center of its dome is pierced by a circular opening called the ____________________.
26) What functions, other than sanitary ones, did the Roman baths fill?
27) What was the media of choice for bathhouse wall and floor decoration?
28) How do the reliefs on the Column of Trajan differ from those on the Arch of Titus?
a.
b.
c.
In what respects do they forecast the art of the Middle Ages?
29) Roman portrait sculpture shows a fluctuation between (2) opposite artistic tendencies.
What are they?
a.
b.
30) One of the very few equestrian portraits of a Roman emperor to survive the Middle Ages
is that of _____________________________________________. It appears to owe its survival to:
31) Name (2) factors that contributed to the decline of the Roman imperial power in the 3rd
c. were:
a.
b.
32) List (3) characteristics of 4th c. Roman sculpture that are illustrated by the Tetrarchs:
a.
b.
c.
33)Why do authors feel that the Arch of Constantine is a monument to the decline of the
Roman creative power?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
34) What is meant by the term “illusionism?”
35) If the Greek genius expressed itself in art, science, and philosophy, in what fields did the
more practical Romans excel? How are these differing concerns reflected in the surviving
monuments of the two cultures?
36) Analyze the stylistic differences between the reliefs from the Arch of Constantine, the
Arch of Titus, and the Parthenon. In what ways do the style and subject matter of these reliefs
reflect the social, religious, and political concerns of the society for which they were made?