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| The big open middle part of a church where people gather to worship. |
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| The semicircular end of the nave where trials were held and stuff |
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| A large open courtyard, surrounded by covered galleries, which precedes entrance to the church |
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| The north and south arms of a basilican church |
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| The way builders took parts like columns from older, unused buildings to construct new ones |
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| How inconspicuous were early Christian house-churches? |
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| Quite inconspicuous indeed, since Christianity was outlawed. |
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| When did Constantine legalize Christianity? |
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Name: Forum of Trajan
Century: 2nd
Location: Rome
Built by: Apollodorus
Notable structures: Triumphal Arch, Basilica Ulpia Column of Trajan, Libraries, Temple of Divine Trajan, Markets of Trajan, Equestrian statue of Trajan |
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Name: New St. Peters Basilica
Location: Rome, Italy
Century: 16th-17th |
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Name: Old St. Peters
Location: Rome, Italy
Century: 4th |
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Name: Church of Santa Maria Maggiore
Location: Rome, Italy
Century: 5th |
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Name: Hagia Sophia
Location: Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey)
Century: 6th
Architects: Anthemius of Tralles, Isadorus of Miletus
Client: Emperor Justinian
Named for: "Church of the holy wisdom of God"
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Purpose: Originally a church, then a mosque, now a museum |
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Name: San Vitale
Location: Ravenna, Italy
Century: 6th
Also, mosaics depict Bible stories |
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| What kind of symmetry does a longitudinal plan have? |
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| What kind of symmetry does a centralized plan have? |
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| It's centered around the center of a gemoetric shape |
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| The side aisle that goes in a circle all the way around the church |
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| The vestibule between the atrium and the main church |
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A system of arches used to hold up a dome with a wide base, like in the Hagia Sophia
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| A sort of cushion between the top of a column and the bottom of the arch on top of it |
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| What is the mithana/minaret? |
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| The tower on a Mosque where they call the people in for prayer |
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| The niche in a Mosque facing Mecca |
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| What kinds of decoration are used in Mosques? |
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| Arabic calligraphy, geometric patterns, floral patterns. Depictions of people aren't forbidden. |
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| What feature are Islamic houses centered around, and why? |
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| A courtyard, because it's hot. |
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Name: Dome of the Rock
Why is it significant: Mohammed left from there to go to heaven, also it's an alternative to Mecca for pilgrimmages
Location: Jerusalem
Century: 7th |
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Name: Great Mosque
Location: Samarra, Iraq
Century: 9th |
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| The raised platform to the right of the Mihrab (niche facing Mecca) where the Imam delivers sermons from |
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Name: Great Mosque
Location: Cordoba, Spain
Century: 8th-10th
What's on top of it: A church
What's the room full of columns called: hypostyle hall |
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Name: Suleymaniye Mosque
Location: Istanbul
Built by: Sinan
Century: 16th |
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| Basically a groin vault, except it has "ribs" with "webs" in between |
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| A support applied to the outer walls of a building to strengthen them |
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| What's the difference between a pier buttress and a flying buttress? |
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Pier buttresses are straight and vertical and connected to the ground. Flying buttresses are connected from the pier buttress to the side of the building diagonally, high off the ground.
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| Ornamented gutter spouts on the top of gothic buildings |
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| Which way does the front door face on all Gothic churches? |
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What's this big round window called?
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| What were most Gothic church floor plans shaped like? |
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| What was the "building block" of a cathedral plan? |
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| The third "floor" of a Gothic cathedral, each bay has 3 arches with a small amount of space behind, but not an actual floor |
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| The part that borders the nave in gothic cathedrals. It's lined with gothic arches. |
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| The second floor of a cathedral, lined with columns, which overlooks the nave. |
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Name: Plan of St. Gall
Century: Never actually built
Function: monestary
Significance: It was the plan for the ideal monestary |
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| When did Charlamagne rule? |
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| When was the Romanesque era? |
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The stonework divisions in Gothic windows
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| The pointy top on top of everything Gothic |
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Name: Abbey Church of Saint-Sernin
Century: 11th (Romanesque)
Location: Toulouse, France
Type of vaults: banded barrel |
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| The eastern (back) end of the church where the divine service was sung |
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| The multiple apses built radiating out on the sides of the choir |
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| What must a church have to be considered a Cathedral? |
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| The closed courtyard in a monestary |
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| What is the dining hall in a monestary called? |
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| What do you call a half of a barrel vault? |
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