exam 3 terms Flashcards

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codex

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a quire of manuscript pages held together by stitching: the earliest form of book, replacing the scrolls and wax tablets of earlier times.

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tompe l’oeil

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is an art technique involving realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions.

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iconography

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symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.

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concrete

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volcanic ash mixed with gravel or sand with water, really hard

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forum

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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.

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veristic

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the theory that rigid representation of truth and reality is essential to art and literature, and therefore the ugly and vulgar must be included

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aqueducts

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a conduit or artificial channel for conducting water from a distance, usually by means of gravity.

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plebeian art

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a term describing poetic art

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gladiator

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(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.

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atmospheric perspective

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creates illusion of distance

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parchment

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the skin of sheep, goats, etc., prepared for use as a material on which to write.

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prefiguration

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to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.

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vellum

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calfskin, lambskin, kidskin, etc., treated for use as a writing surface.

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basilican plan

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public building for legal and other civic proceedings, rectangular plan, entrance on long side, christian architecture a church representing the roman basilica

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central plan

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public building that is circular

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porphyry

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a very hard rock, anciently quarried in Egypt, having a dark, purplish-red groundmass containing small crystals of feldspar.

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encaustic

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painted with wax colors fixed with heat, or with any process in which colors are burned in.

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catacombs

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an underground cemetery, especially one consisting of tunnels and rooms with recesses dug out for coffins and tombs.

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amphitheater

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an oval or round building with tiers of seats around a central open area, as those used in ancient Rome for gladiatorial contests.

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koran

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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.

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dormition

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falling asleep figuratively, death

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calligraphy

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neat style of writing

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muhammad

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prophet of islam

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iconoclasm

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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.

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mandorla
(in painting, sculpture, etc) an almond-shaped area of light, usually surrounding the resurrected Christ or the Virgin at the Assumption
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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.
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chi rho
earliest form of christogram
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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.
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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.
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hypostyle hall
roofed building supported by columns
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continuous narration
story told by continuous pictures
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pantocrator
specific depiction of christ