![]() Byzantine art and architecture inspired by Christianity and imperial power, icons, mosaics, haigia sophia (a Byzantine domed arch) Catacombs (n) A series of grave sites in an underground burial place Christians and Jews often decorate the walls and ceilings with paintings Christ and apostles Early Christian fresco. Physical details and imperfections arcades a series of arches The Colosseum A large amphitheatre built in Rome site of contests and combats between people and animals.70-80ce Roman Painting encaustic, atmospheric perspective, foreshortening. ![]() Portrait Head of an Old Man is an example of Roman sculpture. Marble Roman culture less idealistic than Greeks Affected our systems of law and government, our calendar, festivals, religions and languages. Copy of 1 or 2nd century bce Greek original. Trojan priest who warned against bringing in the wooden horse into Troy during Trojan war. The Laocoön Group (Hellenistic Roman copy) 1st Century BCE. Characterized by emotion, drama, and interaction of sculpture form with surrounding space. Pillar Hellenistic Era period when the Greek language and Greek ideas spread to the non-Greek peoples of southwest Asia. Capital In architecture, the uppermost part of a column on which rests the horizontal lintel. ![]() Modest pose Marbel 3rd century Entasis In classical architecture the slight swelling or bulge in the center column with corrects illusion of concave tapering produced by parallel straight lines. Greek original by Praxiteles best known sculpture all time. Ionic order Taller, more elegant capital enhanced with volutes.in Ionic and Corinthian columns is Separated from stylibate Corinthian Order Complex and organic Venus de Medici Medici Venus( Roman copy of 4 century.
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