Leaf from a Koran

Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem

Great Mosque, Kairouan

Great Mosque, Cordoba

Mihrab, Isfahan

Virgin Mosaic, Hagia Sophia, Constantinople

Church of the Dormition, Daphni (Greece)

Apse Mosaics, Monreale Cathedral (Siciliy)

Lamentation fresco, St. Pantaleimon, Nerezi (Macedonia)

Book of Lindisfarne (British Isles)

Book of Kells (British Isles)

Palace Chapel, Aachen (Germany)

St. Gall Plan

Coronation Gospels, from Aachen (Germany)

St. Michael's, Hildesheim (Germany)

Bernward's column, Hildesheim (Germany)

Gero Crucifix, Cologne (Germany)

Lectionary of Henry II (Germany)

Pisa Cathedral complex (Italy)

Florence Baptistery (Italy)

Sant'Ambrogio, Milan (Italy)

St. Sernin, Toulouse (France)

St. Etienne, Caen (France)

Durham Cathedral (England)

Moissac portal (France)

Vezelay portal (France)

Fontenay Abbey (France)

Abbey of St. Dennis (France)

Chartres Cathedral (France)

Jamb Statues, Chartres Cathedral (France)

Jamb statues, Reims Cathedral (France)

Sainte-Chapelle, Paris (France)

St. Louis Psalter, from Paris (France)

Virgin of Jeanne d'Evreux, from Paris (France)

St. Maclou, Rouen (France)

Salisbury Cathedral (England)

Gloucester Cathedral (England)

Death of the Virgin tympanum, Strasbourg Cathedral (German)

Pieta (German)

Orvieto Cathedral (Italy)

Islam                        qibla

Muhammad               minbar

Mecca                       scallop

Kaaba                       voussoir

Medina                      muqarnas

Koran

mosque

minaret

mihrab

iconoclasm

cross-in-square

squinch

chrysography

comb highlights

Normans

Barbarians               zoomorphic interlace

Goth                       diminution

Franks                    Northumbria 

Saxons                   Hiberno-Saxon

Celts

Vikings

enamel

millefiori

niello 

Carolingian & Ottonian

Charlamagne                                      relic, reliquary

monk, monastery, monastic                 Theophanu

cloister

Montecassino

St. Benedict, Benedictine

Otto, Ottonian

Bernward

ambulatory

crypt 

Montecassino

Tuscany

crusades

Lombardy

buttress

Normans, Normandy

sexpartite 

tympanum

archivolts

jambs

trumeau

Cistercian

St. Bernard

Hildegard of Bingen

mystic, mysticism

suger

anagogy

triforium

flying buttress 

glazed triforium

Visitation

Rayonnant

Louis IX

Jeanne d'Evreux

flamboyant

bar tracery

purbeck

Perpidencular style

fan vault