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09/20/2011

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a portrait or image: especially in Byzantine churches, a panel with a painting of sacred personages that are objects of veneration (respect).
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Doge
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the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa
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Maneira Grecca
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“Greek manner” Italo-Byzantine painting style of the 13th century
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Mendicant
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in medieval Europe, friars belonging to the Franciscan and Dominican orders
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Grissaile
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a monochrome painting done mainly in neutral grays to simulate sculpture
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Tempera
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a technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk, glue, or casein
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Campanile
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a bell tower of a church, usually but not always freestanding
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Condottiere
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- a bell tower of a church, usually but not always freestanding
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Contrapposto
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the disposition of the human figure in which one part is turned in opposition to another part usually hips and legs are one way and shoulders and chest another.
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refectory
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the dining hall of Christian monastery
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loggia
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an architectural feature, originally of Italian design. They are often a gallery or corridor at ground level, sometimes higher, on the facade of a building and open to the air on one side, where it is supported by columns or pierced openings in the wall
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pendentive
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a concave triangular section of a hemisphere, four of which provide the transition from a square area to be circular base of a covering dome, appear to be hanging from dome but supporting it
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stylobate
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the uppermost course of the platform of a classical Greek temper, which supports the columns
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cella
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the chamber at the center of an ancient temple, in a classic temple the room in which the cult statue usually stood
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quoins
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the large, sometimes rusticated, usually slightly projecting stones that often form the corners of the exterior walls of masonry buildings.
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