Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The spectrum in a rainbow. A spectrum (pl.: spectra or spectrums) [1] is a condition that is not limited to a specific set of values but can vary, without gaps, across a continuum. The word spectrum was first used scientifically in optics to describe the rainbow of colors in visible light after passing through a prism.
Roman fresco from the Tomb of Esquilino, c. 300-280 B.C. As with the other arts, the art of painting in Ancient Rome was indebted to its Greek antecedents. In archaic times, when Rome was still under Etruscan influence, they shared a linear style learned from the Ionian Greeks of the Archaic period, showing scenes from Greek mythology, daily life, funeral games, banquet scenes with musicians ...
Rome's Piazza Navona.. Rome has for over two thousand years been one of the most important artistic centres in the world. Early Ancient Roman art initially developed from the Etruscan art slightly to its north, but from about 2000 BC, as the Roman Republic became involved with the Greek world, Ancient Greek art and architecture became the dominant influence, until the two effectively merged ...
Mid-century modern 1950s–1960s California, US, Latin America; Mission Revival Style architecture 1894–1936; California, US; Modern movement 1927–1960s; Modernisme 1888–1911 Catalan Art Nouveau; National Park Service Rustic 1872–present US; Natural building 2000– Nazi architecture 1933–1944 Germany; Neo-Byzantine architecture 1882 ...
In Latin, spectrum means "image" or "apparition", including the meaning "spectre". Spectral evidence is testimony about what was done by spectres of persons not present physically, or hearsay evidence about what ghosts or apparitions of Satan said. It was used to convict a number of persons of witchcraft at Salem, Massachusetts in the late 17th ...
In carpentry, architecture, and shipbuilding, a compass is a curved circular form. Compluvium The Latin term for the open space left in the roof of the atrium of a Roman house for lighting it and the rooms round. [16] Coping The capping or covering of a wall. Corbel
A wider definition would include the design of the built environment, from the macro level of urban planning, urban design, and landscape architecture, to the micro level of creating furniture. [16] The word architecture comes from the Latin architectūra, from architectus "master builder, director of works."
The literal meaning of the Latin phrase is closer to "durability, convenience, and beauty", but the more familiar version is derived from Henry Wotton's liberal translation of Vitruvius, "The Elements of Architecture" (1624): [1] "Well Building hath three Conditions; Commodity, Firmness, and Delight". [2]