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verism

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-truthfulness in art

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PORTRAIT HEAD OF AN ELDER

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-ROMAN
-emphasized the true features of a person, even if unflattering
(especially signs of age since elders were revered)
-wisdom and age

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Pompeii (How was it destroyed/ Why was it preserved

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-ROMAN
-Destroyed by the eruption of mount Vesuvius
-Preserved to provide a window onto the history of both art history and archaeology.

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Key features of House plan of Vettii Brothers

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-Atrium (Entrance)
-impluvium (Collect rain water)
-Garden inside (Privacy)
-Frescos on Walls (Trends in domestic decoration) (Forward-looking interior decoration)
-Mosaics on floor

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Ways the Pantheon Dome was supported

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  1. Use of concrete
  2. Strong walls to support the base of the dome
  3. coffers (relieve some of the weight) (Squares)
  4. oculus (relieves weight at the weakest point, the center) (Circular Openings)
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Nave

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Central part of church

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Apse

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large semicircular recess in church

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Transept

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(in a cross-shaped church) either of the two parts forming the arms of the cross shape

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Manuscript

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hand made book

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Interlacing

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intertwining knots of
ribbons or serpents; a popular
decorative pattern in the early
medieval art of England, Ireland,
and Scotland

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Illuminated

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When gold is applied to the page of a manuscript

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St John’s Bible

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a modern Bible created
with medieval materials
and techniques

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Materials of manuscripts:

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-Parchment= animal skin scraped very thin (sheep, calf, goats)
-(or vellum=finest quality of parchment)
-ground pigments suspended in egg yolk (tempera)
-ink, applied with feather quill pen
-gold leaf, applied with glue

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Monastery

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a building or buildings occupied by a community of monks living under religious vows.

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scribe

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a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.

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reliquary

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container for a relic

17
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Relic

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part of a saint’s body, or something that has come into contact with a saint or Jesus

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Barrel vault

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an architectural element formed by the extrusion of a single curve

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Groin vault

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A groin vault or groined vault is produced by the intersection at right angles of two barrel vaults

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Ribbed vault

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A rib vault or ribbed vault is an architectural feature for covering a wide space, such as a church nave, composed of a framework of crossed or diagonal arched ribs

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Stained glass

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pieces of colored glass fused
together with strips of lead;
details painted on

22
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How is stained glass made

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quartz crystals, sand, and ash
+minerals for color
melted together

23
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Buttress

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an architectural support attached to a wall

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Flying buttress

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an arch on the exterior of a building that
transfers the weight of the vault to another buttress

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“Four Tetrarch” Venice

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-Late Roman
-Four rulers
-Porphyry (stone)
-harmony
-military figures

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Constantine the Great - colossal head

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-Late Roman
-Marble
-He legalized Christianity and other religions
-originally located in the Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine

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Old St. peters (Rome)

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-Early Christian
-site where peter was buried
-nave, aspe, Transept

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Book of kells “CHI RHO IOTA” page

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-Early middle ages
-First letters of Christ [XPI]
-Ink and pigment Vellum
-Illuminated manuscript

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Reliquary of St. Foy

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-Romanesque
-Made with gold and jewels
-contains skull of St. Foy
-Foy= Faith,
-young women who converted to Christianity and was killed by roman authorities for refusing to sacrifice to pagan gods

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church of saint Foy, France

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-Romanesque
-Barrel-vaulted have lined with arches
-takes the symbolic form of the cross

31
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“Last Judgment” tympanum Autun, France

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-reminder about the joys of heaven and torments of hell
-made people consider their eternal fate

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“Flight into Egypt”

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-pieces of colored glass fused together with strips of lead; details painted on

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Norte Dame Cathedral

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-Gothic
-Symbol of theological and worldly power
-spiritual power comes from the relic of the tunic of the virgin Mary
-stain glass focused on light/geometry
-light is symbol for the divine

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