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Test II - Matching
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
12/02/2008

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Chartres Cathedral
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Most famous and the standard for later gothic cathedrals
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Flying Buttress
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The structural device used to support the stone vaulting in the Gothic cathedrals.
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Gargoyles
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sculpture that protected the cathedrals as well as threatened eternal damnation.
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Notre Dame
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"Our Lady"
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Abbot Sugar
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Responsible for conceiving the 'Gothic' idea in the first cathedral at St. Denis
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Hagia Sophia
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The Mother Church of the Eastern Holy roman Empire
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Gislebertus
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This sculptor created frightening Romanesque Tympanum sculpture
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Mont. St. Michel
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Abby Church surrounded by the sea
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the Garden of Earthly Delights
Definition
Bosch = a kind of Orgy
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Fresco
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ancient painting medium - michelangelou
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Painted stone
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because paintings have some muscular energy as his sculptures - Michelangelou
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Mad Meg by Breugel
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In the words of Sister Wendy "When man and woman are not one"
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