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Art 258 quiz 3 vocab
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
04/20/2016

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Pendentives & squinches
Definition

P- round building supported by 4 corners

S-dome supported by octagonal structure

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Icoloclasm
Definition
The destroying of icons during the Byzantine empire
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encaustic
Definition
a painting made on wax
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cloister
Definition
a covered walk, especially in a religious institution, having an open arcade or colonnade usually opening onto a courtyard
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minaret
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a tall slender tower, typically part of a mosque, with a balcony from which a muezzin calls Muslims to prayer.
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hypostyle mosque
Definition
The hypostyle plan’s characteristic forest of columns was used in different mosques to great effect. One of the most famous examples is the Great Mosque
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scriptorium
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literally "a place for writing", is commonly used to refer to a room in medieval European monasteries devoted to the writing, copying and illuminating of manuscripts by monastic scribes
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mirhab
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is a semicircular niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the qibla; that is, the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca 
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muquarna
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a form of architectural ornamented vaulting, the "geometric subdivision of a squinch, or cupola, or corbel, into a large number of miniature squinches, producing a sort of cellular structure", sometimes also called "honeycomb" vaults from their resemblance to these
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cloisonne
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an ancient technique for decorating metalwork objects, in recent centuries using vitreous enamel, and in older periods also inlays of cut gemstones, glass, and other materials. 
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Hiberno-saxon
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the style of art produced in the post-Roman history of the British Isles
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parts of a church: choir, ambulatory/radiating chapels, nave arcade and gallery
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william the conquerer
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sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death .
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battle of hastings
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King Harold II of England is defeated by the Norman forces of William the Conqueror 
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nave arcade
Definition
succession of arches, each counter-thrusting the next, supported by columns,
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troubador poetry
Definition
nobles and knights who had joined the Crusades. The aristocratic Medieval Troubadours were poets 
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fan vault
Definition

Gothic style, in which the ribs are all of the same curve and spaced equidistantly


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