HoA Week 9

Question 1

Rosslyn Chapel

Answer 1

15th-century Episcopal chapel in Midlothian

Question 2

Patronage

Answer 2

Financing and influencing art or architecture.

Question 3

Purgatory

Answer 3

Intermediate state between Heaven and Hell.

Question 4

Iconoclasm

Answer 4

Destruction of religious images for doctrinal reasons.

Question 5

Triptych

Answer 5

Artwork consisting of three panels.

Question 6

Censing

Answer 6

Dispersing incense using a thurible.

Question 7

Ductus

Answer 7

Movement through a work of art.

Question 8

Book of Hours

Answer 8

Private prayer book for individual use.

Question 9

Host

Answer 9

Wafer representing Christ’s body in communion.

Question 10

Chancel

Answer 10

Eastern part of the church with the altar.

Question 11

Nave

Answer 11

Main area of the church for congregants.

Question 12

Transepts

Answer 12

North and south extensions of a church.

Question 13

Cruciform

Answer 13

Architecture shaped like a cross.

Question 14

Portal

Answer 14

Decorative doorway and its surroundings.

Question 15

Pier

Answer 15

Support structures

Question 16

Vault

Answer 16

Arched stone ceiling in a church.

Question 17

Buttress

Answer 17

External support structure for a church.

Question 18

Crypt

Answer 18

Lower floor of a church

Question 19

Rood Screen

Answer 19

Barrier separating chancel from nave.

Question 20

Hans Holbein the Younger

Answer 20

German painter known for portraits and religious art.

Question 21

Erasmus

Answer 21

Scholar who patronized Holbein in Basel.

Question 22

Memento Mori

Answer 22

Artistic reminder of human mortality.

Question 23

Anamorphic Skull

Answer 23

Distorted skull image symbolizing death.

Question 24

Symbolism

Answer 24

Use of symbols to represent ideas.

Question 25

Cult of Glorianna

Answer 25

Idealization of Queen Elizabeth I.

Question 26

Allegory

Answer 26

Representation of abstract ideas through characters.

Question 27

Transience

Answer 27

Concept of impermanence in life and art.

Question 28

Psychological Insight

Answer 28

Understanding character through visual representation.

Question 29

Realism

Answer 29

Artistic focus on accurate depiction of life.

Question 30

Elizabethan Portraiture

Answer 30

Symbolic representation over naturalism in art.