ch 9 Roman Art

Flat, rectangular columns attached to a wall. They may be decorative or used to buttress the wall.

• Mural

• Baths

• Pilasters

• Basilica

A half-round stone ceiling made by placing a series of round arches from front to back. Also known as a tunnel vault.

• Keystone

• Barrel Vault

• Groin Vault

• Niches

Large enclosed Roman structures that contained libraries, lecture rooms, gymnasiums, pools, shops, restaurants, and pleasant walkways.

• Baths

• Barrel Vault

• Coffers

• Nave

A large design or picture, painted directly on the wall of a public building.

• Aqueduct

• Pilaster

• Basilica

• Mural

A long, wide, center aisle.

• Groin Vault

• Nave

• Niches

• Coffer

A heavily decorated arch often consisting of a large central opening and two smaller openings, one on each side.

• Triumphal Arch

• Basilica

• Keystone

• Apse

The central and highest top stone in an arch.

• Coffers

• Aqueduct

• Apse

• Keystone

A type of public building erected to hold large numbers of people.

• Basilica

• Aqueducts

• Nave

• Triumphal Arch

A channel system that carried water from mountain streams into cities by using gravitational flow.

• Niches

• Aqueducts

• Coffers

• Pilasters

An indented panel

• Niches

• Apse

• Groin Vault

• Coffers