| Question |
Answer |
| When was the Edict of Milan passed? |
313ce |
| Who passed the Edict of Milan? |
Constantine |
| Catacomb |
underground burial chambers |
| basilica plan |
floor plan modeled after Roman Basilicas |
| When did Theodosius I divide the empire |
when he died in 395ce |
| In what year did Ravenna (and Roman empire) fall? |
476ce |
| Narthex |
vestibule |
| Transept |
perpendicular and transverse aisle between the nave |
| Nave |
Main aisle if the church |
| Apse |
place where the altar is |
| Clerestory |
windows in the upper wall and beneath the timber roof |
| Byzantium |
The Greek city where New Rome was founded (Constantinople) |
| Centralized Plan |
A floor plan centered around a dome |
| Pendentives |
helped open up the area under and support the domes |
| Mosaic |
an image made of little titles called tessere |
| Icon |
an image considered to be holy |
| medeus aevum |
“middle age” |
| cloisonnés |
Early Medievil metalwork |
| interlace |
a form of adornment called knotwork |
| manuscript illumination |
The decoration of holy manuscripts |
| Hiberno-Saxon |
art from British Monasteries |
| Monasticism |
The organization of and religious practice of living in monasteries |
| Feudalism |
Medieval Government where people pledging support to more powerful people |
| Pilgrimage |
A religious Journey to all the important churches to see their relics |
| cult of saints and relics |
the collecting of and worshiping of holy objects |
| reliquary |
container where the holy relic was kept |
| barrel vaulting |
continuous semi circular cut stone vaults |
| Compound Piers |
piers with columns or pilasters attached to the rectangle cores |
| Ambulatory |
like a hallway around the apse |
| radiating chapels |
chapels built off the apse |
| Tympanum |
the semi-circular or triangular decorative wall surface over an entrance bounded by a lintel and arch |
| ribbed groin vault (“rib vault”) |
A groin vault with rib-like supports |
| pointed arch |
an arch with a point on top |
| flying buttress |
An arch used to support the walls of the church inside or outside |
| jamb statue |
are figures carved on the jambs of a doorway or window |
| Frederick II |
Holy Roman Emperor and King of Sicil |
| panel painting |
the painting of panels for the altar or walls of a church |
Casey Buchanan
on 2009-11-04
MedTemCP5 Word+Pics
