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Test 2
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
11/04/2013
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Catacomb
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= Cubicula-the room: small private burial room
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Continuous Narrative/Simultanaity
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Contrapposto
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Cella
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Codex
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Coffers
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Cubicula/um
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Deesis
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image of Jesus Christ flanked by Mary and Joseph or other saints
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Diptych
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two-hinged panel
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Encaustic
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pigment suspended in wax
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Engaged Column
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Forum
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Buon Fresco
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Painting with pigment on "wet" wall
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Secco Fresco
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Icon/Ikon
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Iconoclast/Iconoclasm
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a person against use of icons
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Illuminated Manuscript
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Insula
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Loculi
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Lost Wax Casting
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Manuscript
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Martyrium
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Miniature
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Narrative
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Oculus
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Pontokrator
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Porphyry
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Relief
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Reverse Perspective
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Scriptoria/um
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building/room devoted to creation of manuscripts
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Sculpture in the Round
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carved free-standing sculpture
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Syncretism/Syncretic
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assimilation of images and ideas from another culture that are give a "new" meaning
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Tempera
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pigment and egg yolk
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Tesserae
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=Mosaic: composition made of tiny pieces of pebble stone or glass
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Tetrarchy
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Theotokos
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Triptych
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Tufa/o
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volcanic rock
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Vellum
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manuscripts made out of "calf skin"
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Verism
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