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Dura Europos

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245-46 CE, Jewish, Sanctuary paintings

Tempera on Plaster

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Early Christian

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3rd - 5th Century

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St. Peter (plan)

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interior plan, 324-400 CE, Rome

(Basilica Plan)

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Santa Costanza (interior)

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350 CE, Rome

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Santa Costanza (plan)

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350 CE, Rome, (Central Plan)

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Galla Placidia (ext)

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425 CE, Ravenna

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Galla Placidia (int)

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425 CE, Ravenna

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Christ as the Good Shepherd

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425 CE, Galla Placidia, Ravenna

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Santa Maria Maggiore

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440 CE, Rome

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The Parting of Lot and Abraham

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440 CE, Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome

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Sarcophagus

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270 CE, Santa Maria Antiqua, Rome, Marble

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Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus

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360 CE, Marble

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Byzantine

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5th -15th Century (CE)

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San Vitale (ext)

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540 CE, Ravenna

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San Vitale (int)

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540 CE, Ravenna

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San Vitale (plan)

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540 CE, Ravenna, Central Plan

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Court of Justinian

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540 CE, San Vitale, Ravenna

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Court of Theodora

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540 CE, San Vitale, Ravenna

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Hagia Sophia (ext)

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537 CE, Constantinople

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Hagia Sophia (int)

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537 CE, Constantinople

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Hagia Sophia (plan)

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537 CE, Constantinople, Central and Basilica Plan

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Christ as the Pantocrator

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Late 11th Century; Church of the Dormition, Daphni, Greece

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The Crucifixion

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Late 11th Century; Church of the Dormition, Daphni, Greece

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St. Mark (ext)

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1063 CE, Venice

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St. Mark (int)

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1063 CE, Venice

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Justinian the Conqueror

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525-550 CE, ivory

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Monestary of St. Catherine

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Mount Sinai, Egypt

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Virgin and Child Enthroned Between Saints and Angels

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6th Century; St. Catherine, Mount Sinai, Egypt; encaustic on panel

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Christ

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6th Century; St Catherine Monastary, Mount Sinai, Egypt; encaustice on panel

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Edict of Milan

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enacted by Constantine, Edict saying it is okay to treat Christians the same as everyone else

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Martyrium

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A church, chapel, or shrine build over the grace of a Christian martyr or at the site of an important miracle.

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House Church

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A place for private worship withing a house; the first Christian churches were located in privae homes that were modified for religious ceremonies.

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Justinian & Theodora

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Catacombs

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The underground burial places of early Christians, consisting of passages with niches for tombs and small chapels for commemorative services.

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Tessarae

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A small piece of colored stone, marble, glass, or gold backed glass use in a mosaic.

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Cruciform

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Having the shape of a cross.

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Latin Cross

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longer middle with short left right

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Greek Cross

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Each length is equal (like the swatch symbol)

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Narthex

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The transverse entrance hall of a church, sometimes enclosed but often open on one side to a preceding atrium.

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Transept

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A Cross arm in a basilican church placed at right angles to the nave and usually separating it from the choir or apse.

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Clerestory

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A row of windows in the upper part of a wall that rises above an adjoining roof. It’s purpose is to provide direct lighting, as in a basilica or church.

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Nave

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The central aisle of a roman basilica, as distinguished from the side aisles. The same section of a Christian basilican church extending from the entrance to the apse or transept.

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Apse

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A semicircular or polygonal niche termination one or both ends of the nave in a Roman basilica. In a Christian church, it is usually placed at the east end of the nave beyond the transept or choir. It is also somtimes at the end of the transept arms.

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Orant

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A standing figure with arms upraised in a gesture of prayer.

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Ambulatory

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A covered walkway. Ina basilican church, the semicurcular passage around the apse. In a central plan church, the ring shaped aisle around the central space. In a cloister, the covered colonnaded or arcaded walk around the open courtyard.

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Icon

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A panel painting of one or more sacred personages, such as Christ, the Virgin, or a saint, particularly venerated in the Orthodox Christian church.

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Iconoclast

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Forbade the worship or production of religious images. Person who didn’t believe in the use of religious icons.

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Iconophile

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Believed in the use of images

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Basilica Plan

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A longitudinal church derived from the Roman basilica and having a nave, an apse, two or four side aisles or side chapels, and sometimes a narthex.

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Central Plan

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Parchment

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A paperlike material made from bleached animal hides used estensively in the Middle Ages for manuscripts

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Vellum

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A superior type of parchment made from calfskin.

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Codex

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An ancient manuscript text in book form.

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Manuscript Illumination

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Text is supplimented by the addition of decoration, such as decorated initials, borders, and miniture illustrations.

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Minaret

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A tower on or near a mosque, varying extensively in form throughout the Islamic world, from which the faihful are called to prayer five times a day.

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Pendentives

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One of the concave trianlges that achieves the transistion from a square or polygonal opening of the round base of a dome or the supporting drum.

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Deesis

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The representations of Christ enthrones between the Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist, frequent in Byzantine mosaics and depictions of the Last Judgment. It refers to the roles of the Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist as intercessors for humankind.

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Pantocrator

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a title of Christ represented as the ruler of the universe, especially in Byzantine church decoration.

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