Final Terms

Question 1

Local Color

Answer 1

does not use shading or gradient in color

Question 2

Isocephaly

Answer 2

when human heads are depicted at the same level

Question 3

Benedictine

Answer 3

the monastic order of St. Benedict, cenobitic monks, emphasizes on the active life and the contemplative life

Question 4

Cenobitic

Answer 4

monasteries where monks and nuns live communally

Question 5

Eremitic

Answer 5

a style of monasticism in which one lives in solitude

Question 6

Radiating Chapel

Answer 6

projecting chapels around an ambulatory, often hold relics

Question 7

Cloister

Answer 7

An enclosed exterior space within a monastery that is usually square or rectangular in shape and surrounded by covered walkways

Question 8

Tympanum

Answer 8

On a church portal, the semicircular space over the lintel that often contains figural sculpture

Question 9

Archivolt

Answer 9

Curved band that frames the top of a tympanum

Question 10

Jamb

Answer 10

Sculptures attached to the jamb columns of a church portal

Question 11

Trumeau

Answer 11

a central pillar supporting the tympanum

Question 12

Cistercian

Answer 12

criticized the excesses of the cluniacs, they are a reforming movement, emphasizes the vita activa (the active life rather than the contemplative life), detached from worldly affairs

Question 13

Franciscan

Answer 13

an order created by Saint Francis, lived as beggars and preached the word of God

Question 14

Mendicant

Answer 14

a member of a Christian order who renounces worldly pleasures and lives off of charity

Question 15

Ascetic

Answer 15

self-discipline

Question 16

Aesthetic

Answer 16

branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and our perception of it

Question 17

Sedes Sapientiae/ Throne of Wisdom

Answer 17

an enthroned, frontally facing Virgin Mary with the Christ child on her lap

Question 18

Elevation

Answer 18

an architectural scale drawing of the facade, side, or back of a structure

Question 19

Bay

Answer 19

subdivisions consisting of the same architectural elements that are repeated to create the nave of a church

Question 20

Transverse Arch

Answer 20

supporting arch which runs across the vault form side to side, dividing the bays

Question 21

Rib Vault

Answer 21

created by the intersection of multiple barrel vaults and is used to support the roof/ceiling

Question 22

Barrel Vault

Answer 22

A vault in the shape of a long half-cylinder

Question 23

Flying Buttress

Answer 23

An external architectural support that springs out from the upper part of a church wall in order to transfer the weight of heavy stone vaulting out and down to external piers

Question 24

Continuous Narrative

Answer 24

Depicting two or more events from the same story in a single composition

Question 25

Sequential Narrative

Answer 25

art which tells a story in the series of frames

Question 26

Fresco

Answer 26

A wall painting technique involving the application of pigments mixed with water onto wet plaster

Question 27

Giornata

Answer 27

a day’s work, often used to describe frescoes

Question 28

Psalter

Answer 28

A book containing the Hebrew Book of Psalms, which was often used for private prayer in the later Middle Ages

Question 29

Bestiary

Answer 29

a collection of descriptions of animals that are associated with Christian connotations or allegories

Question 30

T and O Map

Answer 30

an early representation of the world according to Christians, Europe at top left, Africa and bottom left, Asia at right

Question 31

Relic

Answer 31

The bodily remains of a holy person or an object considered sacred because of its physical contact with a holy person, believed that the saint still inhabited the object

Question 32

Reliquary

Answer 32

A container for relics

Question 33

Varietas

Answer 33

uses many styles to create harmony