Final Exam Review Art History 1; Blinn
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First Portrait in Coinage? - ✔✔Julius Ceasar
PANTHEON - ✔✔City of the Gods, largest free standing dome, tomb of rafael
COLOSSEUM - ✔✔First entertainment arena, could hold 55,000, took 5 mins to
empty
POMPEII - ✔✔Volcanic eruption destroyed
BASILICA - ✔✔Structure designed by Constantine, Christians later used them
AMPHITHEATER - ✔✔Outdoor theater, two combined = the colosseum
FRESCO - ✔✔Lime plaster = true fresco, fresco - seco = on stuco or the wall
PAX ROMANA - ✔✔Piece to Rome, Augustus
THREE INNOVATIONS FROM THE ROMANS - ✔✔Aquaducts, arch, concrete
Oculus - ✔✔On top of the dome, a window or opening
Aqueducts - ✔✔Way to carry water into a city, originally Rome
DIFFERENT COULUMNS AND THEIR SYMBOLISM - ✔✔Doric; Common people,
Ionic; educated, Corinthian; high class
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, TRAJAN COLUMN - ✔✔Trajan Victory, 625 Linear Feet
ENCAUSTIC - ✔✔Painting techniques, invented by Egyptians/ Greeks, Pigment +
hot wax
CONSTANTINE - ✔✔Let christians practice outside of city limits, one of the last
emperors of Rome
MONOTHEISM - ✔✔one God
SYNAGOGUE - ✔✔Jewish temple
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HOUSES - ✔✔Christians gathered when they couldn't
have church
CATACOMBS - ✔✔Underground cemeteries, big one in Paris
CHRISTIAN SARCOPHAGUS - ✔✔Old testament, Christian imagery
MOSAICS - ✔✔From Greeks/ Byzantine, from Pebbles > stone > glass
JUSTANIAN WIFE - ✔✔Theodora, Actress
HAGIA SOPHIA - ✔✔Church of the Holy wisdom, Istanbul
PENDENTIVES - ✔✔Support system of the Dome
VELLUM - ✔✔Paper/ leather, made of calf skin
Icon - ✔✔Religious Imagery
Iconophiles - ✔✔People who warship Icons
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College Question and Verified Detailed
Answers
First Portrait in Coinage? - ✔✔Julius Ceasar
PANTHEON - ✔✔City of the Gods, largest free standing dome, tomb of rafael
COLOSSEUM - ✔✔First entertainment arena, could hold 55,000, took 5 mins to
empty
POMPEII - ✔✔Volcanic eruption destroyed
BASILICA - ✔✔Structure designed by Constantine, Christians later used them
AMPHITHEATER - ✔✔Outdoor theater, two combined = the colosseum
FRESCO - ✔✔Lime plaster = true fresco, fresco - seco = on stuco or the wall
PAX ROMANA - ✔✔Piece to Rome, Augustus
THREE INNOVATIONS FROM THE ROMANS - ✔✔Aquaducts, arch, concrete
Oculus - ✔✔On top of the dome, a window or opening
Aqueducts - ✔✔Way to carry water into a city, originally Rome
DIFFERENT COULUMNS AND THEIR SYMBOLISM - ✔✔Doric; Common people,
Ionic; educated, Corinthian; high class
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©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
, TRAJAN COLUMN - ✔✔Trajan Victory, 625 Linear Feet
ENCAUSTIC - ✔✔Painting techniques, invented by Egyptians/ Greeks, Pigment +
hot wax
CONSTANTINE - ✔✔Let christians practice outside of city limits, one of the last
emperors of Rome
MONOTHEISM - ✔✔one God
SYNAGOGUE - ✔✔Jewish temple
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HOUSES - ✔✔Christians gathered when they couldn't
have church
CATACOMBS - ✔✔Underground cemeteries, big one in Paris
CHRISTIAN SARCOPHAGUS - ✔✔Old testament, Christian imagery
MOSAICS - ✔✔From Greeks/ Byzantine, from Pebbles > stone > glass
JUSTANIAN WIFE - ✔✔Theodora, Actress
HAGIA SOPHIA - ✔✔Church of the Holy wisdom, Istanbul
PENDENTIVES - ✔✔Support system of the Dome
VELLUM - ✔✔Paper/ leather, made of calf skin
Icon - ✔✔Religious Imagery
Iconophiles - ✔✔People who warship Icons
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©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
