Chapter 1 Quiz Flashcards
Basilica
Long hall flanked by columns with a semicircular apse at each end
Nave
Long central isle.
Apse
arched or with a domed roof, typically at the eastern end of church
Transept
Arm perpendicular to aisles, hold relics
Narthex
chamber, porch, at the western entrance of Christian churches, Foyer
Atrium
Primary place of worship
Naos
Sanctuary of a Greek or other ancient temple. Circular.
Ambulatory
An aisle around the apse. circular.
Mosaic
A picture or pattern produced by arranging together small colored pieces of hard material, such as stone, tile, or glass
Iconoclasm
Iconoclasm is the deliberate destruction within a culture of the culture’s own religious icons and other symbols or monuments, usually for religious or political motives. I.E. Vered away from natural images because they wanted them to seem devine.
Manuscript
a book, document, or piece of music written by hand rather than typed or printed: an illuminated manuscript. Vellum: Animal Skin.
Radiating Chapels
A chapel radiating from one of the bays or divisions of the apse.
Tympanum
an architectural element located within the arch or pediment. I.E. religious figures sculptures.
San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy, 526-547.
Byzantine
Apse of San Vitale with mosaic of Christ between two angels, Saint Vitalis, and Bishop Ecclesius, Ravenna, Italy, 526-547.
Bysantine
Christ Pantokrator (“almighty”), apse mosaic in the cathedral at Monreale, Italy, ca. 1180-1
Romanesque
Chi-rho-iota (XPI) page, folio 34 recto of the Book of Kells, late eighth or early ninth century.
Early Mideval
Saint-Sernin, Toulouse, France, ca. 1070-1120.
Pentecost and Mission of the Apostles, tympanum of the center portal of La Madeleine, Vezelay, France, 1120-1132 Crusades
Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France, begun 1134; rebuilt after 1194.
Gothic
