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Title: Dome of the rock
Place: Israel
Culture/Style:Islamic
Date: 690 CE
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Title: Dome of the rock
Place: Israel
Culture/Style:Islamic
Date: 690 CE
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Title: Dome of the rock
Place: Israel
Culture/Style:Islamic
Date: 690 CE
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Title: Illuminated tugra of sultan suleyman
Place: Turkey
Culture/Style:Islamic
Date: 1560 CE
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Title: Interior mosque of sultan Selim
Place: Turkey
Culture/Style: Islamic
Date: 1570
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Title: Dome in front of the Mihrab, Great Mosque
Place: Spain
Culture/Style:Islamic
Date: 785 CE
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Title: Mosque of Sultan Selim
Place: Turkey
Culture/Style: Islam
Date: 1570 CE
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Title: Page from Quran
Place: Syria
Culture/Style: Islamic
Date: 9th C
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Title: Prayer Hall, Great Mosque
Place: Spain
Culture/Style: Islamic
Date: 785 CE
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Title: Chi Rho Iota page from the book of Kells
Place: Scotland
Culture/Style: Hiberno Saxon
Date: 8th C
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Title: Crucifixion with Angels and Mourning Figures
Place: France
Culture/Style: Carolingian
Date: 880CE
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Title: Doors of Bishop Bernward
Place: Germany
Culture/Style: Ottonian
Date: 1015 CE
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Title: Gero Crucifix
Place: Germany
Culture/Style: Ottonian
Date: 970CE
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Title: Page with man, gospel book of durrow
Place: Scotland
Culture/Style: Hiberno Saxon
Date: 7th C
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Title: Page w/ Otto III enthroned
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Culture/Style:Ottonian
Date: 1000 CE
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Title: Palace chapel of Charlemagne
Place: Germany
Culture/Style: Carolingian
Date: 800 CE
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Title: Plan of the Abbey of Saint Gall
Place: Switzerland
Culture/Style:Carolingian
Date: 817 CE
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Title: Plan of the Abbey of Notre-Dame
Place: France
Culture/Style: Romanesque
Date:1140 CE
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Title: Purse Cover
Place: England
Culture/Style:Hiberno Saxon
Date: 7th C
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Title: Reconstruction drawing of the palace of charlemagne
Place: Germany
Culture/Style: Carolingian
Date: 800 CE
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Title: Bishop Odo blessing the feast
Place: England
Culture/Style:Romanesque
Date: 1070 CE
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Title: Detail, Bishop Odo blessing feast
Place: England
Culture/Style:Romanesque
Date: 1070 CE
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Title: Hildegard and Volmar
Place: Germany
Culture/Style:Romanesque
Date: 1170 CE
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Title: Last Judgment
Place: France
Culture/Style: Romanesque
Date: 1120CE
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Title: Messengers signal the appearance of a comet
Place: England
Culture/Style:Romanesque
Date: 1070CE
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Title: Nave, Abbey church of Notre Dame
Place: France
Culture/Style:Romanesque
Date: 1140 CE
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Title: Reliquary statue of Sainte Foy
Place: France
Culture/Style:Romanesque
Date: 9th C
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Title: The church choir from the transept at cluny
Place: France
Culture/Style:Romanesque
Date: 1100CE
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Title: Chartres Cathedral
Place: France
Culture/Style:Gothic
Date: 1134 CE
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Title: Chartres Cathedral Plan
Place: France
Culture/Style:Gothic
Date:1200 CE |
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Title: Christ: Beau Dieu
Place: France
Culture/Style:Gothic
Date: 1220 CE
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Title: Comparative Cathedral Nave Elevations
Place: France
Culture/Style:Gothic
Date: 1220CE
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Title: Ekkehard and Uta
Place: Germany
Culture/Style:Gothic
Date: 1250 CE
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Title:interior, abbey church of Saint Denis
Place:France
Culture/style:Gothic
date:1140 CE |
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title:Masons at work
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title:Nave, Chartres Cathedral
place:France
Culture/style:Gothic
Date:1200 CE |
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title:West facade, Chartres Cathedral
place:France
Culture/style:Gothic
Date:1200 CE |
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title:quatrefoils, west facade, amiens cathedral
place:France
Culture/style:Gothic
Date:1220 CE |
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title:Chartres Cathedral, Rose of France
place:France
Culture/style:Gothic
Date:1220CE |
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title:Royal portal, Chartres Cathedral
place:France
Culture/style:Gothic
Date:1150 CE |
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title:Royal portal, Chartres Cathedral
place:France
Culture/style:Gothic
Date:1150CE |
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title:Tree of Jesse, Chartres Cathedral
place:France
Culture/style:Gothic
Date:1150CE |
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title:Upper Chapel, Sainte Chapelle
place:France
Culture/style:Gothic
Date:1250CE |
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title:West Facade, Cathedral of Notre Dame Reims
place:France
Culture/style:Gothic
Date:1250CE |
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title:plan of the abbey of notre dame
place:france
Culture/style:Romanesque
Date:1140CE |
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title:Reconstruction drawing of the abbey at cluny
place:France
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| Cloister :an open space, part of a monastary, surrounded by an arcaded or collonaded walkway, often having a fountain and garden dedicated to non-litergical activities. |
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| Engaged Column: Column attached to the wall |
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| Portico :in architecture, a projecting roof or porch supported by columns often marking an entrance. |
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| Choir :Area between the nave and sanctuary in a church or cathedral. Houses the altar |
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| Study of types. Christian theology of types and antitypes found in scripture |
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| Westwork : West facing entrance of a carolingian ottonian or romanesque church |
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| Tympanum :Semi-circular or triangular decorative wall surface over and entrance bounded by a lintel and arch. |
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| Pendentive :the concave triangular section of a vault that forms the transition between a square or polygonal space and the circular base of a dome |
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| Pier :Masonry support made up of many stones, or rubble and concrete often square or rectangular plan. |
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| Quibla :The mosque wall orientated towards Mecca indicating by the mihrab. |
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| Trumeau : A column pier or post found at the center of a large portal or doorway supporting the lintel |
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| Rib vault: Ribs (extra masonry) demarcate the junctions of a groin vault. Ribs may function to reinforce the groins or may be decorative |
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Reliquary :A container often made of precious materials, used as a repository to protect and display sacred relics.
Ex:Saint Foye |
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| Attribute :object that id's a picture, most commonly reffering to objects held by saints |
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| Tracery :Stonework or woodwork applied to wall surfaces or filling open space of windows. In plate tracery, openings are cut through the wall |
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| Transept :the arm of a cruciform church, perpendicular to the nave. The point where the nave and transept cross is called the crossing. Beyong the crossing lies the sanctuary whether apse, choir or chinet |
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| Ambulatory :The passage (walkway) around the apse in a basilican church or around the central space in a central plan building |
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Archivolts :Ornamental molding or band following the curve of an arch.
Row of voussoirs |
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| Illumination :A painting on paper or parchment used as illustration and/ or decoration for manuscripts or albums. Usually done in rich colors, often supplemented by gold. |
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| A temporary structure that supports a masonry arch and vault or dome during construction until morter is fully dried |
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| Facade :Face, front wall of building |
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| A Mihrab: recess or niche that distinguishes the wall oriented towards mecca in a mosque |
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| Minbar: High platform/pulpit in a mosque |
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| A symbolic representation w/o images of human figures, very often in Islamic art |
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| Apse: A large semicircular or polygonal (end usually vaulted) niche rotruding from the end wall of a building. In the Christian church, it contains the altar. Apsidal is adjective describing the condition of having such a space |
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| Flying Buttress: Used to transfer horizontal thrust of a vault across and intervening space |
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| Interlace: a decorative motif consisting of threads passing over and under each other like threads in lace |
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