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| A portrait or image; especially in Byzantine art, Panel with painting of sacred personages that are objects of veneration. In the visual arts, a piece of sculpture or even a building regarded as an object of veneration |
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| Byzantine con paining, that means holy style painting to holy figures. |
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| The destruction images. In byzantium, the period from 726-843 when there was an imperial ban on image. The destroyers of images were known as iconoclasts. |
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| Non figural (prohibition against figural) and replaced all the figuring with writing. |
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| A semicircular niche set into the qibla wall of a mosque |
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| A covered walkway outdoor or indoors; especially the passageway around the apse and the choir of a church. |
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| Mosque archs/ towers to call people for pryer. but also a symbol, it stands above symbol as power of Islam |
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| is an ancient technique for decorating metalwork objects,adding compartments to the metal object by soldering or glueing silver or gold wires or thin strips placed on their edges. |
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| A characteristic feature of Insular illuminated manuscripts. They are pages of mainly geometrical, which may include repeated animal forms, typically placed at the beginning of each of the four Gospels in Gospel Books. |
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| literally "a place for writing", is commonly used to refer to a room in medieval European monasteries devoted to the copying of manuscripts |
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| A container for relics. These may be the physical remains of saints, such as bones, pieces of clothing, or some object associated with saints or other religious figures. |
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| An aureola or aureole is the radiance of luminous cloud which, in paintings of sacred personages, surrounds the whole figure. |
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| the art of Western Europe from approximately 1000 AD to the rise of the Gothic style in the 13th century, or later, depending on region |
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| a Medieval art movement that developed in France out of Romanesque art in the mid-12th century, led by the concurrent development of Gothic architecture and it spread to all of Western Europe. |
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| Rayonnant (ex rose window) |
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| a term used to describe a period in the development of French Gothic architecture |
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| In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved stone grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building. |
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