Romanesque Architecture

Question 1

Romanesque Innovations

Answer 1

1. Development of Pier form
2. Introduction of Triforium Gallery
3. Regular Crossing
4. Wall passages, ambulatories, radiating chapels
5. Evolution of new concepts in external massing
6. Increasing mastery of architectural sculpture

Question 2

Effective way of establishing bay divisions and articulating interior elevations

Answer 2

Pier

Question 3

It is important in terms of alleviating smooth wall surfaces and transforming them into articulative architectural units.

Answer 3

Triforium Gallery

Question 4

One of the geological characters of Romanesque is the Materials used from ruins of classical buildings

Answer 4

TRUE

Question 5

Architect of Pisa Baptistry

Answer 5

Dioti Salvi

Question 6

Mosaic decorations for interiors

Answer 6

TRUE

Question 7

12th century mercantile palace on the Grand Canal, demonstrates the high level of quality of domestic architecture achieved in Venice as one of the outcomes of the prosperous trade with the East.

Answer 7

Fodaco dei Turchi

Question 8

lateral divisions parallel with the nave in a basilica or a church

Answer 8

Aisles

Question 9

a raised pulpit from which the Epistle and the Gospel were read

Answer 9

Ambo

Question 10

the cloister or the covered passage around the east end of the church behind the altar

Answer 10

Ambulatory

Question 11

the circular or multi-angular termination of a church sanctuary

Answer 11

Apse

Question 12

forecourt in early Christian church

Answer 12

Atrium

Question 13

the space for clergy and choir separated by a screen from the body of a church

Answer 13

chancel

Question 14

the western limb of the church, as opposed to the choir, also the central aisle of the Christian church

Answer 14

Nave

Question 15

holy consecrated place. The most sacred part of the temple or church

Answer 15

Sanctuary

Question 16

raised floor of apse or niche

Answer 16

Exedrae

Question 17

Central font into which those who will be

baptized could descend, and enough space for the officiating clergy

Answer 17

Baptistry

Question 18

plan similar to simplified basilican plan

Answer 18

Tombs

Question 19

structure that dominated the
Christian architecture. The
structure was so influential that it
became the model of the Russian
Churches in the tenth century.

Answer 19

Hagia Sophia