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Art History Vocab.
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |