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History of Interiors
Early Christian, Byzantine and Romanesque... Islamic & Asian Traditions... The Later Middle Ages
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Art/Design
Undergraduate 1
09/30/2007

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Apse
Definition
The semicircular end of a basilica or church chanel
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Nave
Definition
The main central space of a cathedral or church
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Norman
Definition
The English Romanesque syle of the 11th and 12th century
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Rondel
Definition
A round element of surface decoration, often containing a scriptual element.
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Rose Window
Definition
The large round window, usually in the facade of a Gothic cathedral or church
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Tripdtych
Definition
central panel painting with two painted hinged wing panels often painted in brilliant colors.
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Gothic
Definition
Term describing a style that was regarded as crude and barbaric.
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Groin Vault
Definition
A vault formed by the intersection of two vaults producing the intersecting edge lines called "groins"
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Trefoil
Definition
A carved decorative element having three leaf forms
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Quatrefoil
Definition
An ornamental element of four lobes
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Grotesques
Definition
Fanciful and ditorted form; carving of such form
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Gargoyles
Definition
A projecting water spout carved in fantastic form
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Tracery
Definition
Gothic ornamental carved detail in thin, complex patterns
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Early & High Gothic
Definition
1150-1250

-Cathedral built over several centuries

- Early & Late Elements
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Rayonette
Definition
1230-1325

-Elaboration od decoration
-Radiating lines of tracery
-Great Rose Windows
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Flamboyant
Definition
-"Flame" like
-Complez patterns of tracery
-Elaborate, excessive decorative detai
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Early English
Definition
Work of the 13th century; Pointed arches and vaults with simple decorative detail.
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Decorated
Definition
14th century; Carved decoration based on curving lines of foilage
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Perpendicular
Definition
15th century; Parallel vertical divisions of windows and the use of fan vaulting
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