Arch: An architectural construction built of wedged shaped blocks to span opening and usually supported by column or piers.

Dome: A hemispherical vault or ceiling over a circular opening

Frieze: A decorative horizontal band usually placed along the upper end of a wall.

Technique: Any method of working with art materials to create an art object.

Classical: Relating to form regarded as having reached it’s greatest standard of excellence before modern times.

Medium: A material used by an artist and often implying the technique of using that material.

Foreshortening: A way of drawing of painting an object so that it seems to go back into space.

Column: An upright post used to bear weight.

Temple: A structure built to worship gods.

Aerial Perspective: Aerial or atmospheric, perspective is a method of showing the effect of distance on a flat surface.

Humanism: The renewed interest at the beginning of the Italian Renaissance in the art and literature of antiquity.

Foreground: The area of a picture, usually at the bottom, that appears to be closet to the viewer.

Middle ground: The area of a picture that appears to be in between the foreground and the distance.

Distance: The area of a picture that appears to be the furthest of all.

Capital: The top element of a column, pier, or pilaster usually ornamented with leaves, volutes animal or human faces.

Hellenistic: Era of Mediterranean culture influenced by the Greek world following the conquest of Alexander the great.

Archaic: Referring the early phase of an artistic development specifically applies to the span of ancient Greek art, prior to the classical period.

Kiln: An oven capable of controlled high temperature in which clay objects are fired or baked.

Linear Perspective: A system of drawing of painting to give the illusion of depth on a flat surface.

Style: The distinctive characteristics contained in the works of art a person, period of time or geographic location.

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