ARTH 200 Lecture 7: Term Sheet 7.docx

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Art History
• Course: ARTH 200
• Professor: Caroline Beaudoin

Document Summary

Term sheet 4 pseudoperipteral in roman architecture, a pseudoperipteral temple has a series of engaged columns all around the sides and back of the cella to give the appearance of a peripteral colonnade. Senate latin senatus, council of elders. the senate was the main legislative body in roman constitutional government. Consul in the roman republic, the two chief magistrates. Plebian the roman social class that included small farmers, merchants, and freed slaves. Concrete a building material invented by the romans and consisting of various proportions of lime mortar, volcanic sand, water, and small stones. Revetment in architecture, a wall covering or facing. Barrel/tunnel vaults semi cylindrical in cross section, is in effect a deep arch or an interpreted series of arches, one behind the other, over an oblong space. Groin/ cross vaults is formed at the point which two barrel vaults intersect at right angles. Oculus- latin, eye. the round central opening in a dome.