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Test 2 Flashcards

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Basilica

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Large rectangular open building

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Tetrarchy

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The rule of four

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Nave

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Large open interior area in basilica

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Apse

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Round extensions of the basilica

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Clerestory windows

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High open spaces between columns to allow light to enter the interior, no glass

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Peristyle

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Planted garden in the courtyard surrounded columns

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Voussoir

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Wedge shaped stone blocks stacked on a curved to form an arch

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Stucco

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Thick moldable slow drying plaster

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Facade

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Face or front wall of building

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Rotunda

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Round structure usually with dome

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Oculus

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Opening in ceiling

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Arcade

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Series of arches

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Oligarchy

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Ruled by a few aristocrats

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Verism

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Detailed realism

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Brahman

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The universal soul

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Atman

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Individual soul

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Samsara

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The cycle of life

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Celadon glazed

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High fired transparent glaze using pale blue green hue

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Pagoda

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Temple design

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Finial

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Top of pagoda like capstone

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Taotie

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Mask spirit motif

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Stupa

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Religious monuments enclosing a relic chamber

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Reliquary

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Container to protect sacred relics (bones and garments of holy person)

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Mandala

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Diagram of the cosmos or sacred space, used for meditation

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Torana

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Gateway

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Chaitya

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Sanctuary

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Mudra

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Symbolic gesture to communicate certain ideas teaching meditation

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Capstone

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top of shikhara like corbel capstone

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Mandapa

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Hall

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Shiva

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God of all light and dark, creation and destruction

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Manuscript

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Handwritten books

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Codex

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Separate hand written pages bound together

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Vellum

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Fine writing surface made from calfskin

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