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| The passage around the apse in a basilican church or around the central space in a central-plan building |
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| Type of linear decoration particularly popular in ancient and early medieval art, in which ribbonlike serpents, vines, or animals or ribbons are interwoven |
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| Room in a monastery for writing or copying manuscripts |
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| The monumental, west-facing entrance section of a Carolingian, Ottonian, or Romanesque church. The exterior consists of multiple stories between two towers, the interior includes an entrance vestibule, a chapel, and a gallery overlooking the nave. |
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| Open space, part of a monastery, surrounded by an arcaded or colonnaded walkway, often having a fountain and garden, and dedicated to nonliturgical activities and the secular life of the religious |
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| Object or a personal item of religious significance, carefully preserved as a memorial |
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| Unit of space defined by architectural elements such as columns, piers, and walls |
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| The design of repeating a segment or portion of a design that can be connected together. Determines the length of the entire structure, one unit measures from square pier to next square pier. |
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| The arrangement, proportions, and details of any vertical side or face of a building |
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| Area over a door enclosed by an arch and a lintel, often decorated with sculpture or mosaic |
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| The technique in needlework of decorating fabric by stitching designs and figures of colored threads of fine material into another material |
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| Container used to protect and display sacred relics |
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| Jamb figure (column figure) |
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| Vertical element found on both sides of an opening in a wall |
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| A round window, with tracery patterns in the form of wheel spokes |
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| An arch built on the exterior of a building that transfers the thrust of the roof vaults at important stress points to a detached buttress pier leading to the wall buttress |
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| In a church nave, the long, narrow platforms supported by colonnades |
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| The element of the interior elevation of a church, found between the nave arcade or colonnade and the clerestory, covers the blind area created by the sloping roof over the aisles |
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| Tall, narrow window crowned by a sharply pointed arch |
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| Thin stone or wooden bars in a Gothic window, screen, or panel, which create an elaborate decorative pattern wile supporting the structure |
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| Lower part of a wall, differentiated in some way from the upper section |
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| Stylized leaves used in Gothic decoration |
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| Courtly style in which the figures body forms an S shape, with their hips thrust forward or to one side |
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| Crucifix which holds a narrative or story adorned with figures of humans, or animals |
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| Style of the wall of a cathedral that is low, and wide profile. -i.e. Salibury Cathedral |
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| Human Christ that feels pain |
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| Church with a nave and aisles of the same height, giving the impression of a large, open hall |
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| Italian word for "majesty", designates an iconic formula of the enthroned Madonna with the child Jesus, whether or not accompanied with angels and saints |
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| Device used in systems of spatial definition |
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| Narrative depicting Mary and others mourning the death of Christ |
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| Painting executed primarily in shades of gray |
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| Generic Italian term for a cathedral church |
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| Painted or carved panel or winged structure placed at the back of or behind or above the altar |
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| EASTERN STYLE: Christianity architecture |
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| Central axis; domes; mosaics and arabesque designs; hierarchical arrangements |
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All heads on same level or height
EX: Hagia Sophia, San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy |
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| WESTERN STYLE: architecture |
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| Basilica plan; fresco and wall hangings; 3-D art, more naturalistic art |
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| Open outside, walled in area in front of basilica |
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| Small area immediately inside basilica for non-converts |
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| Major central portion inside, with aisles on either side (1-2 aisles) |
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| Further down toward the altar, where the transepts cross |
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| Arms of the church, widening out to the south and north |
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| Area for the choir and clergy |
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| Walkway around the rounded end of the basilica |
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| Rounded end, holding the choir, high altar, and radiating chapels |
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| Distance and area between each and its immediate neighbor |
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| Sculpture above the central portal |
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| Sculptures around the tympanum with figures, designs, or symbols of the Zodiac |
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| Double doorways often have a statue attached to a pillar between the doors |
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| An open, walled enclosure much like the atrium, but attached to the church walls; often a spring is in the middle; an area where monks could read and converse, and hear the afternoon lesson from the abbot |
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| Outer walls of the nave and around the apse |
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| Roman architecture characteristics: rounded arches, thick wall, little light, massive impression; EXAMPLES= St Sernin; St Foy; St Etienne (Caen);At-Pierre, Mopissac;Saint-Lazare.Autun; La Madeleine, Vezelay |
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| Thinner walls, brighter interiors with more extensive stained glass, use of pointed arches, thinner exterior buttressing, ribbed vaults, more humanistic, realistic sculpture, less emphasis on pain and agony |
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| All sung mass-never changing |
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| Added by 9th century to aid singing |
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| Incorporated around 800AD |
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| Parallel Organum, Melismatic Organum |
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| Busy on top and steady on the bottom |
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| Vocal accompaniment--no instrumental |
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| The use of recessed decorative panels repeatedly to decorate ceilings or vaults |
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| Space between two arches or between an arch and a rectangular enclosure |
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| Nine-branched candelabrum used on Hanukkah |
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| Decorative device or plaque, usually with a plain center used for inscriptions, or epitaphs |
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| Style in which artists concern themselves with capturing the exterior likeness of a person, usually by rendering its visible details in a finely executed, meticulous manner |
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| Roman town center; site of temples and administrative buildings and used as a market or gathering area for the citizens |
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| Large rectangular building. often built with a clerestory, side aisles separated from the center nave by colonnades, and an apse at one or both ends. Roman centers for administration, later adapted to christian church use. Constantine's architects added a transverse aisle at the end of the nave called a transept. |
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| Large semicircular or polygonal (and usually vaulted) niche. In the chrsitian church, it contains the altar. |
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| Center aisle of a basilica, two or three stories high and flanked by aisles |
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| Passage or open corridor of a church, hall, or other building that parallels the main space, usually on both sides, and is delineated by a row, or arcade, of columns or piers |
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| Exterior facing of a building, often in decorative patterns of fine stone or brick. May cover a wall built of coarser materials. |
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| Circular opening, usually found either as windows or at the apex of a dome |
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| Structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere |
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| Art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects appear in three-dimensions, instead of actually being a two-dimensional painting |
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| Room with a hot plunge bath, used in a Roman bath complex |
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| Warm bath to bathe in, ancient Rome |
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| Large cold pool to drop into after enjoying a hot Roman bath |
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| Can be applied to any system of government where power is divided between four individuals. The establishment of the ********** usually marks the resolution of the Crisis of the Third Century and the recovery of the Roman Empire. |
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| First two letters in the Greek spelling of the word Christ; used for a number of Christian-related usages. One of the earliest cruciform symbols used by Christians. |
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| Ancient underground passageways or subterranean cemeteries composed thereof. The narrow tunnels are man made; many of them are under the cities and have served during historic times as a refuge for safety during wars or as a cult place. |
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| Hellenistic, Parthian and Roman border city built on an escarpment ninety meters above the right bank of the Euphrates river. It is located near the village of Salhiyé, in today's Syria. |
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| Principal christian church in a diocese, built in the bishop's administrative center and housing his throne |
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| A man who exercised autocratic authority as a pater familias over an extended family. This is a Greek word, a composition of (pater) meaning "father" and (archon) meaning "leader", "chief", "ruler", "king", etc. |
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| Standing figure praying with outstretched arms and upraised hands |
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| A piece of metal, usually carved or engraved; circular (like a coin) and large, that is used as a work of art, souvenir, medal, or worn on the body as a special symbol or as a fashion accessory on a necklace (see pendant) |
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| Half-moon shaped space, either masonry or void. Formed when a horizontal cornice transects a round-headed arch at the level of the imposts, where the arch springs |
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| A man carrying a sheep or calf with a sheep or calf at his side. In Christian art, Jesus Christ with a sheep; symbolic of him, and his salvation. |
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| Vestibule or entrance porch of a church |
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| Unroofed interior courtyard or room in a Roman house, sometimes having a pool or garden, sometimes surrounded by columns. Open courtyard in front of a christian church, or an entrance area in modern architecture. |
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| Arms on an elongated building which make it look like a cross |
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| Vaulted underground space beneath the floor of a church, usually under the sanctuary, which may contain tombs and relics |
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| Modern art-historical term used to describe the re -use of earlier building material or decorative sculpture on new monuments |
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| Plump, naked little boy. cupid in classical art, a cherub or baby angel in christian art |
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| Mother earth/personification of peace |
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| Imperial capital of the Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire/East Roman Empire, Latin, & Ottoman empire. Sucessor to Ancient Greece & Rome. Largest/wealthiest city |
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| Existing city upon which Constantinople was founded. Settled in early days of Greek colonial expansion. |
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| City and commune in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Seat of Western Roman empire. |
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| Spherical triangle which acts as a transition between a circular dome and a square base on which the dome is set |
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| Lowest voussoir on each side of an arch. where the vertical support for the arch terminates and the curve of the arch begins. Arch built into the wall. |
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| Lowest voussoir on each side of an arch, where the vertical support for the arch terminates and the curve of the arch begins |
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| Semi-circular recess, often crowned by a half-dome, which is usually set into a building's facade |
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| Any object with two flat plates attached at a hinge. Devices of this form were quite popular in the ancient world, types existing for recording notes and for measuring time and direction. The term is also used figuratively for a thematically-linked sequence of two books. |
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| Pieces of glass used to mosaic |
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| Pieces of glass used to mosaic |
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| Image in any material representing a sacred figure or event in the Byzantine, and later the Orthodox, Church. Venerated by the faithful, who believed them to have miraculous powers to transmit messages to god. |
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| Roman invention which replaced the scroll, the first form of a book. in the format used for modern books, with separate pages bound, given a cover (normally) |
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| Handwritten book or document |
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| Mammal skin prepared for writing or printing on single pages, scrolls, codices or books |
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| Decorative elements attached to the surface of a wall, with no openings |
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| Series of arches, carried by columns or piers and supporting a common wall or lintel |
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| Elaborative application of repeating geometric forms that often echo the forms of plants and animals |
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| Fine art of hand lettering (fancy script writing essentially) |
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| Very formal script/strong upright verticals |
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| Knoblike architectural or furniture decoration found at the top point of a spire, pinnacle, canopy, or gable |
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| Arrangement of ceramic tile to create a design |
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| Decorating with black lines |
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| Middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three eras, classical civilization of antiquity, middle, and the modern period |
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| Descriptive term for people, objects, events, and institutions of the Middle Ages |
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| Ancient metalworking technique, a multi-step enameling process / arrangement of wires |
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| Literally "a place for writing," is term commonly used to refer to a room in medieval European monasteries devoted to the copying of manuscripts |
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| book, document, or other composition written by hand |
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| Book in the format used for modern books, with separate pages normally bound together and given a cover. It was a Roman invention that replaced the scroll, which was the first form of book |
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| Mammal skin prepared for writing or printing on single pages, scrolls, codices or books |
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| Term used in the history of architecture, design, and archaeology. It refers to a derivative object which retains ornamental designs cues to structure that was necessary in the original. |
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| Refers to objects such as amulets and talismans or other symbols intended to "ward off evil" or avert or combat evil |
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| Metalworking technique in which a malleable metal is ornamented or shaped by hammering from the reverse side |
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| Period of intellectual and cultural revival occuring in the late eighth and ninth centuries, with the peak of the activities occuring during the reigns of the Carolingian rulers Charlemagne and Louis the Pious. During this period there was an increase of literature, writing, the arts, architecture, scriptural studies and more. |
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| Mother earth/personification of peace |
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| Political system composed of a set of reciprocal legal and military obligations among the warrior nobility, revolving around the three key concepts of lords, vassals, and fiefs. King owns a region, but it is too large to control, so power is delegated in order to maintain power. An alliance. |
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| Aisle through which one may ambulate, to organize people traffic |
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| Object or a personal item of religious significance, carefully preserved with an air of veneration as a tangible memorial. Often times, the actual remains of a dead saint or holy person. |
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| Container for relics; often the relics within the container are the actual physical remains of saints |
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| Long journey or search of great moral significance. Sometimes, it is a journey to a sacred place or shrine of importance to a person's beliefs and faith |
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| Christian church that contains the seat of a bishop. It is a religious building for worship, specifically of a denomination with an episcopal hierarchy, such as the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Orthodox and some Lutheran churches, which serves as a bishop's seat, and thus as the central church of a diocese. |
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| Feature of Cathedral, Monastic and Abbey architecture. It consists of (usually) four corridors, roofed but open to the air, surrounding a central courtyard or garth. The attachment of a cloister to a Cathedral church usually indicates that it is (or was once) a monastic foundation. |
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| Ornamental molding or band following the curve of the underside of an arch |
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| One of a pair of vertical posts or pieces that together form the sides of a door, window frame, or fireplace, for example |
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| Semi-circular or triangular decorative wall surface over an entrance bounded by a lintel and arch. It often contains sculptures or other ornaments. |
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| Vesica Piscis (venn diagram) shaped aureola which surrounds the figures of Christ and the Virgin Mary in traditional Christian art. It is especially used to frame the figure of Christ in Majesty in early medieval and Romanesque art, as well as Byzantine art of the same periods. |
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| Capitals that have humans depicted on them, and tell a story |
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| Iconography- Virgin Mary with Child Jesus on her lap holding a book |
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| Form of textile art, where the design or pattern is woven into the fabric as it is made |
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| Form of textile art where the design and patterns are sewn in on top of an already woven piece of fabric |
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| Somewhat engaged columns with things attached. Sort of like a column, but bigger, and square shaped. A purely visual element that emphasizes the structure. |
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1. Grew out of the artistic heritage of the Roman Empire and the legacy of the ealy Christian church.
2. Mixed "Barbarian"
3. Interplay b/w elements of Classical, early Christian and "Pagan" art. |
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| Stories of life and deeds of Jesus Christ. In its widest sense, the phrase "the Christian church" is "the Body of Jesus Christ." |
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| Not favored under the critical eye of the Christian church |
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| Painting and two-dimensional art... |
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| Attacked art as a direct challenge to the creative authority of God |
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| Christ as the Good Shepard, (camouflaged symbolism could be read and understood on a number of levels without revealing its true intentions to the wrong people) |
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1. Have their origins in pagan imagery: items as diverse as the dove (the Holy Spirit), the fish (baptism, Christ), the sun (truth), the feast (the Eucharist), and the sheperd (Christ) can all be traced back to earlier cultures.
2. Intermingling of Pagan iconography. |
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| Early Christianity and Architecture: |
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(1) Religious art.
(2) Clerestory - nat. illumination.
(3) Relied on previous artistic and architectural traditions for a grand visual expression. |
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| Light "natural illumination": |
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(1) Principle/symbol of Wisdom.
(2) Great visual expression.
(3) Accentuate interior volume of structure.
(4) Ability to visually lift ceilings and -
(5) Speak of the mercy and wisdom of God. |
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| Control faithful and inspire masses |
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| Hagia Sophia, Exterior, Istanbul |
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| Hagia Sophia, Interior, Istanbul |
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(1) Mosaic works
(2) Dome = Christ supporting Heaven |
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| Hagia Sophia, general, Istanbul |
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(1) Vision of the young faith
(2) 41 ft. larger than Pantheon in Rome
(3) New Architectural design: pendentive
(4) Light illusion = dome floats
(5) Dome = consummate poetry of space = Heavens
(6) Living metaphor of the majesty of the faith |
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| Relates to early Christian architecture |
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| Basilica format from Roman secular architecture and the dome, which was associated with imperial monuments |
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| A specific Christian architectural concept favored among builders |
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| A favored medium among early Christian artists |
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(1) practical form of art making
(2) colored stone, glass, or ceramic "tesserae" are adhered to surfaces such as floors, walls, and ceilings, becoming more or less permanent fixtures |
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| First documented mosaic works |
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| Floor designed "simple black and white pebble designs" |
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| First documented mosaic works |
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| Floor designed "simple black and white pebble designs" |
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| Tesserae relates to what form of art, and allows for sharpened quality of what two elements of art? |
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(1) mosaic
(2) Greater light and color attributes |
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| "Blue" significance to early Christian artists: |
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| dynamic; clothing of the sky; helps provoke presence of God |
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| "Gold" significance to early Christian artists as the symbology of the candle: |
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(1) gold - candle dance
(2) candles = a warm subtle golden glow
(3) helps provoke presence of God |
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| Early Christian artists & church officals favored placement of tesserae (especially glass) at different angles: |
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(1) Uneven surfaces provided lighting effects
(2) specifically, glass and stone generated reflective effects |
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| Early Christian mosaics obviously derived much of their technical prowess from this precedent |
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| Another popular medium for the Christian artist, aside from mosaic |
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| Cloisonne enamel work had specific technical complexities that did not easily translate into subtle modulations of tone and color, and like mosaic, it had important repercussions on how Christians continued to render figures because: |
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(A) New standard of design providing simulataneous functions
(1) flatform, provides:
(1a)clarity; enhances strength of vision; striking
(1b)outlined figure
(1c)strong transistions of color
(1d)excuses misrepresentation of figure |
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| Why cloisonne enamel works often provide a didactic function |
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| Enables a viewer to learn from it, while concurrently evoking "emotional responses" very different from the probable effect on original audiences |
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| Elaborate on the most significant two-dimensional art form produced by early Christians |
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| A:) The Icon: most icons possess the same pictorial qualities as both mosaic and cloisonne enamel: (*)flatness of design, strong transitions of color, and abstracted figures, all of which enable the image to function on a number of levels simultaneously. (*) example: didactic function (story-telling, emotional response). |
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| How early Christian artists and church officials deployed the use of icons |
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| Early Christian artists and church officials employed icons to deliver and echo the interests of the masses. Early Christian art was primarily concerned with converting the masses, and used visual images to help tell stories about the life and deeds of Jesus Christ. |
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| Best images of early Christian art became extremely illustrative because ******* was of utmost importance amoung missionary work |
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| Greater need for images and objects |
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| Reinforced aspects of Christian teaching as group worship became more important in Christianity |
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| How meditative function of art was achieved by artists |
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| (A) The mediative function of art was achieved by simply reorienting some of the features of the previous didactic format. (1) Artists removed the figures from the narrative which allowed the subject to exist in a "non-historical time" context. (*)When a background is removed from a figure, the subject is portrayed without a sense of place and time and thus, capable of entering personal communion in present tense. |
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| Church of San Vitale, Ravenna, mosaics |
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(Architecture): Double octogonal shell with domed octogonal cone. Byzantine style.
(Art): Jeweled cross, liturgical devices, golden path: mosaic chalice. |
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| Qualities of Renaissance Architecture: |
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Often in regards to Classical building principles:
(1) symmetry
(2) balance
(3) simple design
(4) harmonious interplay b/w parts |
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| Michelangelo and Raphael can be said to have embodied the Renaissance spirit in painting and sculpture, it is ******* that one must turn when considering architecture |
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| Classical style and culture |
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| Renaissance form scholars taught |
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| Cultural characteristics of the Renaissance: |
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(1) A time of trade, exploration, and discovery
(2) Rise of humanities - humanism
(3) Importance of education - liberal arts
(4) Wealthy patrons = $funding$projects
(5) Status of artist is elevated |
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| Technological trades (inventions) of the Renaissance |
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(1) oil painting
(2) moveable type printing press
(3) printmaking achievements put it on equal level with painting and sculpture |
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| Middle culture and art from the medieval ages; started 400 - stopped 1400 |
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Enamel work in which the different colors are separated by strips of flattened wire placed edgeways on a metal backing.
Origin mid 19th century: French, literally ‘partitioned,’ past participle of cloisonner, from cloison ‘a partition or division.’ |
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| Anglo-Saxon British/Irish; refer to art that has been Christianized on islands |
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| Safe places, where life was struckted. Followed rule of St. Benedict. Life stable enough to promote the arts = paintings/music. 1st college of fine arts, St. Myrids; largest benedictine Order in Indiana. |
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| Face of church on the west; especially the towers that go with it |
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| Where the monk were when they chanted; an architecture design |
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| North and South; makes a 't' shape; a cross like letter. |
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| Balcony, 2nd floor space on side aisles, provides extra support for walls, beef up upper wall |
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| Ravel for religious purposes; went because you had a desperate need |
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| Sacred object, physically associated with a saint. Objects a saint owned: box, clothing, usually a bone (skull) |
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| Where the relic is housed, kept it safe |
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| On center access, little bumbs. On St.-Sernin, in Toulosse France |
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| Destroyed during french revolution (no longer exists); wealthiest and thinest monastery in Europe. Biggest church in Europe - Pilgrimage power house of the arts. |
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| Makes them lighter on edges and corners of vault they add ridges, makes it stable with much reduced wait (solves many problems). Central in Gothic period. |
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| Side of the doorway (still used today); place where you can put sculpture |
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| Band of molding, resembling an architrave, around the lower curve of an arch. Lower curves itself from impost to impost of the columns. |
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Main feature of sculpture, most important story.
Architecture: a vertical recessed triangular space forming the center of a pediment, typically decorated.
Similar space over a door between the lintel and the arch. |
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| Capitals that tell a story with sculpture |
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| Cloth stitches made from colored thread weaving |
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| Combination of apse/ambulatory and radiating chapels |
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| Arch with a pointed crown, characteristic of Gothic architecture |
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| About God. In St. - Denis. St. denis wrote "God is like light." Abbot Suger came up with the idea. Highly saturated colors. |
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| Tower part buttress meant to be enormous; reaches over top. Buttress slanting from a separate pier, typically forming an arch with the wall it supports. |
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| Fake gallery, decoration on the wall |
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No basic geometry, total fantasy of lines; screen of lines in front of church
-Flame-like
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-Out of control
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| Bibs come down into the vault; late english; excessive decoration |
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| 313: Emperor Constantine designated Christianity as official religion of the Empire |
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~Continued Christian faith among empire. Featured in certain works of art as a ruler with faith
~Barberini Diptych shows him on charging horse (like Marcus Aurelius)
~Constructed Hagia Sophia |
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~Burial site of treasure-laden ship.
~Found in Suffolk, England (1939)
~Very elaborate and expensive treasures found there (ie. Purse cover with cloisonne technique) |
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~Burial site of treasure-laden ship.
~Found in Suffolk, England (1939)
~Very elaborate and expensive treasures found there (ie. Purse cover with cloisonne technique) |
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~Burial site of treasure-laden ship.
~Found in Suffolk, England (1939)
~Very elaborate and expensive treasures found there (ie. Purse cover with cloisonne technique) |
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| In early Medieval manuscipts, decorative pages resembling textiles (Book of checkered Matthew) |
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~Page in "The Book of Kells"
~Corresponds to opening of Matthew's gospel - Nativity of Jesus from Book of Matthew
~Initial letter of Christ in Greek (XPI, chi-rho-iota) occupy entire page |
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| Writing studio of a monastary |
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~Egyptian technique employed on medieval Hiberno-Saxon treaure (purse cover, jewelry)
~Soldering small metal strips to a metal background and then filling the compartments with semiprecious stones, pieces of colored glass, or glass paste resembling sparkling jewels |
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~Style that resembles that of Rome some periods prior
~"Roman-like" A term used to describe the history, culture, and art of Medieval Western Europe from 1050-1200 AD |
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~Gospel book of Archbishop Ebbo of Reims
~Modeled after Coronation Gospels, was created to appear energetic, rather than calm and realistic
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~The "Ideal Monastery"
~Schematic had clear distinctions
~Purpose was to separate monks from the laity (non-clergy who lived at the monastery as well) |
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~King of the Franks till 786, Emperor of Rome (800-814)
~Admirer of learning, arts, classical culture - placed value on secular and sacred books (ie: Coronation Gospels)
~Art: "Equestrian Portrait of King Charlemagne) on horse |
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| Container for keeping relics |
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| One of the great patrons of Ottonian art and architecture. Builder of the abbey church of St. Michael at Hildesheim. An eager scholar, he made it the center of learning. |
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| A covered walkway, outdoors, (as in a church cloister) or indoors; especially the passageway around the apse and the choir of a church |
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| Part of church with an axis that crosses the nave at a right angle |
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| In Basilica architecture, the series of arches supported by piers or clumns separating the nave from the aisles |
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| Windows that form the nave's uppermost level below the timber ceiling or the vaults |
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| Flat, rectangular, vertical member projecting from a wall of which it forms a part. It usually has a base and a capital and is often fluted. |
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| Semi-cylindrical in cross-section if in effect a deep arch or an uninterrupted series of arches one behind the other, over an oblong space |
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| Formed at the point at which two barrel vaults intersect at right angels |
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| In Medieval churches, chapels for the display of relics that opened directly onto the ambulatory and the transept |
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| Arch separating one vaulted bay from the next |
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| Church that was funded by the work of pilgrims who traveled to spread the word of Christinity |
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| Christ as ruler and judge of heaven and earth |
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