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Art History Vocab.
Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Iconography | A image that tells a story |
cubiculum:plural Cubicule | a burial chamber within the catacombs that held more that one loculus |
loculus:plural Loculi | a shelf with in the catacombs were dead bodies rested. |
syncretism | To or more religions being represented at the same time or in the same piece |
ambulatory | It is the space around the alter that has stautes of saints |
tesserae | a dice;cube cut glass or tile that is used for Mosaic's |
theocratic | A government,state, or emperor that is divinly guided |
vicar | An Agent or substute |
proxy | something that is substituting |
pendentives | its the space, a triangular space that seperates the some and the colums |
pictoral fiction | create something that isnt true ,that hasnt happened |
iconoclasm | the distruction of actually images |
clerestory | windows/only source of light |
nimbus | a halo with the cross inscribed within the halo |
putti | male nude angles |
liturgy | the ritual of a religion (public worship) |
Liturgy | relates to the spritual/connection to the comunion to god |