exam 3 terms Flashcards
codex
a quire of manuscript pages held together by stitching: the earliest form of book, replacing the scrolls and wax tablets of earlier times.
tompe l’oeil
is an art technique involving realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions.
iconography
symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
concrete
volcanic ash mixed with gravel or sand with water, really hard
forum
the marketplace or public square of an ancient Roman city, the center of judicial and business affairs and a place of assembly for the people.
veristic
the theory that rigid representation of truth and reality is essential to art and literature, and therefore the ugly and vulgar must be included
aqueducts
a conduit or artificial channel for conducting water from a distance, usually by means of gravity.
plebeian art
a term describing poetic art
gladiator
(in ancient Rome) a person, often a slave or captive, who was armed with a sword or other weapon and compelled to fight to the death in a public arena against another person or a wild animal, for the entertainment of the spectators.
atmospheric perspective
creates illusion of distance
parchment
the skin of sheep, goats, etc., prepared for use as a material on which to write.
prefiguration
to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
vellum
calfskin, lambskin, kidskin, etc., treated for use as a writing surface.
basilican plan
public building for legal and other civic proceedings, rectangular plan, entrance on long side, christian architecture a church representing the roman basilica
central plan
public building that is circular
porphyry
a very hard rock, anciently quarried in Egypt, having a dark, purplish-red groundmass containing small crystals of feldspar.
encaustic
painted with wax colors fixed with heat, or with any process in which colors are burned in.
catacombs
an underground cemetery, especially one consisting of tunnels and rooms with recesses dug out for coffins and tombs.
amphitheater
an oval or round building with tiers of seats around a central open area, as those used in ancient Rome for gladiatorial contests.
koran
the sacred text of Islam, divided into 114 chapters, or suras: revered as the word of God, dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel, and accepted as the foundation of Islamic law, religion, culture, and politics.
dormition
falling asleep figuratively, death
calligraphy
neat style of writing
muhammad
prophet of islam
iconoclasm
The belief that there should not be religious pictures, generally seeing them as a form of idolatry. The term literally means icon-breaking. This view was state policy in the Byzantine Empire from 730 to 878 and from 815 to 843.
mandorla
(in painting, sculpture, etc) an almond-shaped area of light, usually surrounding the resurrected Christ or the Virgin at the Assumption
icon
a representation of some sacred personage, as Christ or a saint or angel, painted usually on a wood surface and venerated itself as sacred.
chi rho
earliest form of christogram
squinches
small arch, corbeling, or the like, built across the interior angle between two walls, as in a square tower for supporting the side of a superimposed octagonal spire.
pendentives
any of several spandrels, in the form of spherical triangles, forming a transition between the circular plan of a dome and the polygonal plan of the supporting masonry.
hypostyle hall
roofed building supported by columns
continuous narration
story told by continuous pictures
pantocrator
specific depiction of christ
