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| A significant change in the church between 400-500 CE, which involves the elaboration of the interior area in churches |
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| Established a kingdom in Italy under Theodoric the Great in the 5th-6th centuries CE |
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| early Catholic tomb/place of worship for prosecuted Catholics |
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| Christian Church (previously a civic building in Roman context) |
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| An early home church in Rome |
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| entrance area in a church (behind the door) |
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| The raised area where preaching and singing took place |
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| A long room placed at a right angle to the principle area of the building |
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| A transverse element that made the building seem cross-shaped located where the choir met the apse |
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| Standing room for those who had been baptized |
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| an area along side the nave where those who had not been baptized stood |
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| A semicircular recess covered by a hemispherical arch or semi-dome behind the alter in a christian church |
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| A free-standing tower with a bell (which rang when service was about to take place) |
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| Christians that are not fully converted and must stand in the aisle |
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| A church with the main interior space covered by a dome, the axis going from the entrance to the altar, and symmetrical with respect to the center |
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| A type of cross where the vertical beam sticks above the cross-beam |
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| Where the priest stood/preached |
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| a round building where people mourned the death of martyrs |
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| A clay based ceramic where the fired body is porous |
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| Byzantine Emperor from 527 to 565 who was the last latin-speaking emperor in the Roman area and expanded the empire extensively |
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| a lintel used to fill in the right angle edges that support the dome on a square drum |
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| a constructive device (triangular segments of a sphere) permitting the placing of a circular dome over a square room or an elliptical dome over a rectangular room |
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| a dome supported by pendentives in which the pendentive curve continues into the dome |
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| an outer dome that covers the internal one to hide structural elements, make the dome effective inside and outside, and protect the building from weather |
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| a pendentive with a dome placed on top |
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| an upper level of a church, surrounding the nave and sometimes used for church council meetings |
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| a triangular section of vaulting between the rim of a dome and each adjacent pair of the arches that support it/ a pendentive with only the inner edge in arcuated form) |
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| The space before the narthex of a church, sometimes roofed-over as with a porch, but more often an enclosed courtyard |
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| a container that has two expansive handles joining the shoulder of the body and a long neck for holding wine usually |
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| a greek stadium for horse or chariot racing |
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| Iconoclastic controversy: |
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| a debate over the use of religious images (icons) in the Byzantine empire |
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| a church plan with a square central area and four arms of equal length |
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| a square church with an internal cross, formed by the apse and the transept |
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| the plan of an early Christian church that was divided into nine bays; the central bay was a large square with a dome over its center; the four corner bays were each small, domed, and square in plan; the remaining four bays were barrel vaults. |
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| Greek-cross-octagon plan: |
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| a plan centered around a dome with an octagonal base, expanding into a cross |
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| thin slabs of marble that support the wall |
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| the junction of the four arms of a cruciform (cross-shaped) church |
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| a dome shaped like an upside-down onion, typical in islamic architecture |
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| a gothic tribe that controlled the spain/portugal area after sacking Rome (responsible for the horseshoe arch) |
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| Tin-glazed pottery, decorated earthenware pottery with an opaque white glaze |
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| a free-standing tower in mosques that is used for the call to prayer |
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| A wall in a mosque towards which worshipers pray (originally it faces Jerusalem, later Mecca) |
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| an indentation in the qibla that demarcates which wall the qibla is |
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| an empire who's architecture was an amalgam of Islamic, Persian,Turkish and Indian architecture |
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| fifth Mughal Emperor of India, built the Taj Mahal at Agra for a tomb for his wife Mumtaz Mahal |
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| a type of corbel employed as a decorative device in traditional Islamic and Persian architecture, with radial symmetry |
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| the inlay technique of using cut and fitted, highly-polished colored stones to create images. |
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| a rectangular hall or space, usually vaulted, walled on three sides, with one end entirely open |
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| a roadside inn where travelers could rest and recover from the day's journey |
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| those who live under the rule of St. Benedict (Roman Catholics) |
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| the re-use of earlier building material or decorative sculpture on new monuments |
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| a Roman Catholic religious order of enclosed monks and nuns |
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| an arch with alternating color bricks |
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| the basic feudal unit of tenure |
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| the west facing front facade of a church |
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| a rectangular open space surrounded by covered walks or open galleries, with open arcades on the inner side, running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle or garth (separates the monks from non-monks) |
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| A dome placed over a polygonal base. It is not a semi-sphere, but is formed of curved sections which correspond to the parts of the polygon on which it rests. |
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| a style of architecture in which The architect infuses himself into the building by editing the scale |
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| an architectural feature that refers to a gallery or corridor at ground level, sometimes higher, on the façade 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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| an art technique involving realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions |
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| a small, most-often dome-like, structure on top of a building |
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| any building with a circular ground plan, sometimes covered by a dome |
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| a canopy covering supported by columns, freestanding in the sanctuary, that stands over and covers the altar in a basilica or other church |
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