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FINAL EXAM VOCABU
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| westwork | a monumental western front to a church, treated as a tower or towers containing an entrance and vestibule below and a chapel above. |
| tumulus | Archaeology . an artificial mound, especially over a grave; barrow. |
| Mozarabic | of or pertaining to a style of Spanish church architecture produced from the 9th to the 15th centuries and characterized chiefly by the horseshoe arch. |
| repousse | raised in relief by hammering on the reverse side. |
| vellum | calfskin, lambskin, kidskin, etc., treated for use as a writing surface. |
| fibula | a clasp or brooch, often ornamented, used by the ancient Greeks and Romans. |
| Cloisonne | enamelwork in which colored areas are separated by thin metal bands fixed edgewise to the ground. |
| psalter | the Biblical book of Psalms. |
| lectionary | a book or a list of lections for reading in a divine service. |
| zxoomorphic | of or pertaining to a deity or other being conceived of as having the form of an animal. |
| altermate support system | not all of the posts react and support the ceiling |
| scriptorium | room, as in a monastery, library, or other institution, where manuscripts are stored, read, or copied. |
| ambulatory | moving about or from place to place; not stationary: an ambulatory tribe. |
| martyr | a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion |
| strip butress | Flying buttress: An external masonry support, found primarily in Gothic churches, that carries the thrust of the ceiling or vault away from the upper walls of the building to an external vertical column |
| romanesque | noting or pertaining to the style of architecture prevailing in western or southern Europe from the 9th through the 12th centuries, characterized by heavy masonry construction. |
| feudalism | the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal. |
| historiated capital | A capital which is decorated with figures of animals, birds, or humans, |
| manor | a landed estate or territorial unit, originally of the nature of a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord's demesne and of lands within which he has the right to exercise certain privileges, exact certain fees, etc. |
| hall church | a Romanesque church in which the side aisles are equally high as the nave, and which has no clerestory, making the space rather dark. |
| radiating chapels | Chapels projecting radially from the curve of an ambulatory or rarely of an apse. |
| campanile | bell tower, especially one freestanding from the body of a church. |
| vassals | a person granted the use of land, in return for rendering homage, fealty, and usually military service or its equivalent to a lord or other superior; feudal tenant. |
| transverse arches | supporting arch or rib that runs across a vault from side to side, dividing the bays. |
| engaged collum | a column embedded in a wall and partly projecting from the surface of the wall |
| Groin Vault | vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults. |
| cloister | a courtyard, especially in a religious institution, bordered with such walks. |
| trummeau | a column supporting a tympanum of a doorway at its center. |
| jambs | either of the vertical sides of a doorway, arch, window, or other opening. |
| transverse barrel vault | A vault in which each bay consists of a barrel or tunnel |
| flying butress | The characteristic of a flying buttress is that the buttress is not in contact with the wall all the way to the ground |
| rib vault | The intersection of two or three barrel vaults produces a rib vault or ribbed vault when they are edged with an armature of piped masonry |
| quatrefoil | general four-lobed shapes in various contexts. |
| historiated crucifix | a crucifix with narrative scenes flanking the corpus. |
| pointed arch | an arch having a pointed apex. |
| ogee arch | an arch that curevs up to a point |
| pinnacle | a relatively small, upright structure, commonly terminating in a gable, a pyramid, or a cone, rising above the roof or coping of a building, or capping a tower, buttress, or other projecting architectural member. |
| triforium | the center section under the clerestory and above the nave arcade |
| flashing | Building Trades . pieces of sheet metal or the like used to cover and protect certain joints and angles, as where a roof comes in contact with a wall or chimney, especially against leakage. |
| battlement | a cresting |
| divine comedy | an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321. It is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature. |
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