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TERMS-early midevil europe, gothic
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
06/11/2011

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a decorative pin, usually used to fasten garments
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Fibula
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a decorative metalwork technique
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Cloisonne
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a christian religious book for private devotion containing prayers to be read at specified times of the day
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book of hours
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a book containing the psalms
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Psalter
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not in book
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interlace
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in early midieval manuscripts, a decorative page resembling a textile
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carpet pages
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the writing studio of a monastery
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scriptoria
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decoration made up of of interwoven animal-like forms, often found in Celtic and northern European art of the medieval period
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animal interlace
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king of roman empire

he promoted the arts and education

king of the franks

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charlemagne
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cant find

ask someone

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pilgrimage
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a container for holding relics
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reliquary
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not in book
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pilgrimage church
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chapels for the displays of relics that opened directly onto the ambulatory and the transept
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radiating chapels
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the tower over the crossing of a church
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crossing tower
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a covered walkway outdoors or indoors
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ambulatory
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the series of arches supported by piers or columns separating the nave from the aisles
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nave arcade
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a gallery over the inner aisle flanking the nave
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tribune
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the space between two columns or one unit in the nave arcade of a church
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bay
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an arch separating one vaulted bay from the next
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transverse arch
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the space enclosed by a lintel and an arch over a doorway
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tympanum
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the pillar or center post supporting the lintel in the middle of the doorway
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trumeau
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the continuous molding framing an arch. 

one of the series of concrete bands framing the tympanum

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archivolt
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the space in cruciform church formed by the intersection of the nave and the transept
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crossing
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kingdom of France

this is where french gothic begins

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lle-de-France
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creator of the gothic style, he was an abbot and trained as a monk.  he said that objects can lead us to a road of spiritual enlightenment
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Abbot Suger
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usually eastern end of a church

 

the space reserved for the clergy and singers in the church

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choir
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the masonry blocks that fill the area between the ribs of a groin vault
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web
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the blind arcaded gallery below the clerestory
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triforium
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a relatively slender molded masonry arch that projects from a surface.
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rib
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a vault in which the diagonal and transverse ribs compose a structural skeleton that partially supports the masonry web between them
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rib vault
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the radiant style of gothic architecture
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Rayonnant
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