Portrait of a Patrician holding the busts of his Ancestors
Italy, late 1st century BCE, Republican period
Portrait of a Roman general
Italy, c. 50 BCE, Republican Period
Dionysiac Fresco
Villa of the Mysteries, Italy, c. 70 BCE, Republican Period
Cuirass
Piece of armor consisting of breastplate and backplate fastened together
Gravitas
Maturity and seriousness
Horizon line
The line of horizon in a point perspective
Mosaic
An image or pattern made from small pieces of colored stone, glass, or tile
One-point linear perspective
A system of creating a sense of depth on a flat surface by using real or implied parallel lines (orthogonal lines) that converge at a single point (the vanishing point) on the compositions horizon line
Orthogonal line
Parallel lines
Patrician
A member of a noble family or class in Ancient Rome
Plebeian
A commoner in Ancient Rome
Tessera
A cut piece of stone used in a mosaic
Trompe l’oeil (PRO: Loi)
French for “to fool the eye” a depiction of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface
Vanishing point
A point on the horizon line that lines meet at
Verism
Latin for “True”
Virtu
Manliness, excellence
