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Art History
Units 1 & 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Arcade | A series of arches, carried by columns or piers and supporting a common call or lintel |
| Basilica | A large rectangular building, often build with a clerestory, side aisles separated from the center nave by colonnades, and an apse at both ends |
| Bay | A unit of space defined by architectural elements such as columns, piers, and walls |
| Capital | A sculptured block that tops a colom. According to the conventions of the orders, capitals include different decorative elements |
| Coffer | A recessed decorative panel that is used to reduce the weight of and to decorate ceiling or vaults |
| Dome | A round vault, usually over a circular space. Consists of a curved masonry vault of shapes and cross sections that can vary from hemispherical to bulbous to oviodal (look up more in book) |
| Drum | The wall that supports the dome |
| Facade | The face or front wall of the building |
| Lantern | A turretlike structure situated on a roof, vault, or dome, with windows that allow light into the space below |
| Latin-Cross plan | Church plan based on the basilica type, in its layout resembling a cruciform shape (a long nave & 3 shorter arms (in contrast to a centralized Greek cross plan) |
| Loggia | Italian term for a covered open air gallery. Often used a corridor between buildings or around a courtyard, loggias usually have arcades or colomnades |
| Nave | The central space of a basilica, two or three stories high and usually flanked by aisles necking. The molding at the top of the shaft of the column |
| Oculus | In architecture, a circular opening. Oculi are usually found either as windows or at the apex of a dome. When at the top of a dome, an oculus is either open to the sky or covered by a decorative exterior lantern |
| Order: Corinthian | the most ornate of the ordders, includes a base, a fluted column shaft with a capital elaborately decorated with acanthus leaf carvings |
| Order: Doric | Column shaft of the Doric order can be fluted or smooth surfaced and has no base |
| Order: Composite | Combination of Ionis and Corinthian |
| Palazzo | Palace |
| Pietra Serena | Grey Tuscan Limestone used in Florence |
| Rustification | Rough irregular and unfinished effect deliberately given to the exterior facing of a stone edifice. Used for large and decorative emphasis around doors or windows |
| Sgraffito | Decoration made by incising or cutting away a surface layer of material to reveal a different color beneath |
| Side Aisle | Look up |
| Transept | The arm of a cruciform church, perpendicular to the nace, the point where the nave and transept cross is called the CROSSING. beyond the crossing lies the sanctuary whether and apse, choir, or chevet |
| Atmospheric perspective |
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