Exam 3 Vocabulary

Question 1

Basilica -
a large oblong hall or building with double colonnades and a semicircular apse, used in ancient Rome as a court of law or for public assemblies, used as a Christian church

Turret - a small tower on top of a larger tower or at the corner of a building or wall

Minarets - a tall slender tower

Romanesque - art in the roman style

Answer 1

Nave

Apse

Transept

Crossing

Aisle

Ambulatory

Question 2

Notre-Dame (Our Lady)

Sedes Sapientia: Throne of Wisdom

Triforium - a gallery or arcade above the arches of the nave, choir, and transepts of a church

Clerestory - the upper part of the nave, choir, and transepts of a large church, containing a series of windows. It is clear of the roofs of the aisles and admits light to the central parts of the building

Blind Triforium - (in a church) the wall at the side of the nave, choir, or transept, corresponding to the space between the vaulting or ceiling and the roof of an aisle, often having a blind arcade or an opening in a gallery

Answer 2

Grozing iron - a pair of pliers for clipping the edges of pieces of glass

Rose Window - a circular window with mullions or tracery radiating in a form suggestive of a rose

Cylinder glass - glass blown in the shape of a cylinder then split and flattened into a sheet

Crown glass - glass made without lead or iron, originally in a circular sheet

Question 3

Reliquary - a container for holy relics

Relic - a part of a deceased holy person’s body or belongings kept as an object of reverence

Answer 3

Primary Relic - body relic

Secondary Relic - something that touches a body

Question 4

Codex - an ancient manuscript text in book form

Bifoium/folio - two sheets of paper, parchment, or similar material folded together to make four leaves (verses are written, not on two sheets of paper, but on the recto and verso of the first leaf of a bifolium)

Scaper - small knife

Answer 4

Manicule - a pointing hand is a punctuation mark, called an index, manicule (from the Latin root manus for ‘hand’ and manicula for ‘little hand’) or fist.

Parchment - made of animal skin

Vellum - made of calf or lamb skin

Repousse - (of metalwork) hammered into relief from the reverse side

Question 5

Barrel Vault - a vault forming a half cylinder

Mosaic -

Iconography - the visual images and symbols used in a work of art or the study or interpretation of these

Typology - The study and interpretation of types and symbols, originally especially in the Bible

Answer 5

Pilgrimage - religious journey

Conflation - Conflation occurs when the identities of two or more individuals, concepts, or places, sharing some characteristics of one another, seem to be a single identity — the differences appear to become lost

Iconoclasm - the rejection or destruction of religious images as heretical

Triumphal Arch - A triumphal arch is a monumental structure in the shape of an archway with one or more arched passageways, often designed to span a road

Tessera/Tesserae - a small block of stone, tile, glass, or other material used in the construction of a mosaic