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Art History105
| 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 |
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