VIII. Early Christian Period, IX. Byzantine Period, X. Romanesque Period

Question 1

Art pertaining to those produced by the early Christians until the founding of Byzantine

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Early Christian Period

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EARLY CHRISTIAN PERIOD
• Symbolisms of ancient Christian
• Became the initial basis for Byzantine Art

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Fish and Cross

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EARLY CHRISTIAN PERIOD
• Early christian church
• Long rectangular plan

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Basilica

Question 4

PARTS OF BASILICA

• Open-air court

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Atrium

Question 5

PARTS OF BASILICA

• Principal or central part of a church

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Nave

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PARTS OF BASILICA
• Semicircular projection of a building usually vaulted
• Located infront of the nave

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Apse or Apsis

Question 7

PARTS OF BASILICA
• Placed at the center of the apse
• Table in a Christian church upon which the Eucharist, the sacrament celebrating Christ’s Last Supper is celebrated.
• Also called communion table

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Altar

Question 8

EARLY CHRISTIAN PERIOD
• A dispute over the religious images
• Prohibited the production of icons in representational human form

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Iconoclastic Controversy

Question 9

EARLY CHRISTIAN PERIOD

• Started the Iconoclastic Controversy in 726

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Emperor Leo III

Question 10

BYZANTINE PERIOD
• New capital for the Roman Empire in Byzantium 
• Built by Constantine I in 323 AD
• Greek for 'city of Constantine'
• Nova Roma in New Rome

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Constantinople

Question 11

BYZANTINE PERIOD

• The emperor from 527-565 AD

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Justinian

Question 12

BYZANTINE PERIOD

• Rise of the faith of _____

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Islam

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BYZANTINE PERIOD
• The background of a Byzantine painting

a. Single Plane
b. Double Plane
c. Three-Dimensional Plane
d. None of the above

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a. Single Plane

Question 14

BYZANTINE PAINTING
• Naturalism is largely ignored.
• Figures in _____ poses

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Frontal

Question 15

BYZANTINE ART FORMS
• Handwritten book written on vellum
• Decorated with gold or silver
• Brilliant colors or elaborate designs on miniature pictures.

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Illuminated Manuscripts

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BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE

• The church plan in Western Europe

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Latin Cross Church

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BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE

• The church plan in Eastern Europe

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Central-plan Church

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BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE

• Complex layouts and an exceptional affinity for ____

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Domes

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BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE

• The interior of a Byzantine building was coated in lavish ____ and ____

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• Mosaics

* Murals

Question 20

BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE

• Column capitals often embellished with intricate reliefs such as ____ or ____ design.

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• abstract

* floral

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BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE

• Inverted concave triangle that springs from a corner of the square curving up to meet the other ____

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Pendentive

Question 22

BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE
• Corbel type arches piled on top of another
• Built across the upper inside corner of a square tower

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Squinch Arch

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BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE
• Slender tower attached to a mosque
• Where the Muezzin calls the Muslim people to pray

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Minaret

Question 24

BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE

• Sanctuaries that enshrine a relic/tomb of a martyr.

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Martyrium

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BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE | • Used for the sacrament of baptism

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Baptisteries

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BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURAL LANDMARKS | • Large original building with a dome over the central core.

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Church of San Vitale

Question 27

BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURAL LANDMARKS • Built as the major cathedral in Constantinople • A basilica with a narthex at the west • Altar framed by an apse at the east • Nave is vaulted by a great dome of 33m or 109 ft in diameter. • Domed cross plan

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Hagia Sophia "Holy Wisdom"

Question 28

* A style of art emerging in Italy in the 9th Century. | * "in the Roman manner"

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Romanesque

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ROMANESQUE PERIOD | • Religious way of life in which one renounces worldly pursuits to devote oneself fully to spiritual work.

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Monasticism

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ROMANESQUE PERIOD | • A way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labor.

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Feudalism

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ROMANESQUE PERIOD • Religious expeditionary wars blessed by the Pope and the Catholic church • Goal of restoring Christian access to the holy places in and near Jerusalem

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Crusades

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ROMANESQUE PERIOD | • Economic system based upon limited land ownership and forced labor (serfs)

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Manorialism

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ROMANESQUE PERIOD | • Container of relics (body parts or possessions of saints)

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Reliquaries

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ROMANESQUE PERIOD • Unique embroidered narrative • Resonates the events leading to the Battle of Hastings

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Bayeux Tapestry

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ROMANESQUE PERIOD • The Romanesque sculpture served as "________". • Relief images carved on church entrance

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literature for the illiterate

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ROMANESQUE PERIOD • Monumental western front of a church • Treated as tower or towers containing a low entrance hall and a chapel open to the nave above.

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Westwork

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ROMANESQUE PERIOD | • The favorite themes of their architectural sculpture

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* Majesty of Christ * Last Judgment * Torments of Hell

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ROMANESQUE PERIOD • The space between an arch and horizontal head of a door or window below. • Decorated with sculpture

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Tympanum

Question 39

ROMANESQUE PERIOD | • Column supporting the Tympanum of a doorway at its center.

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Trumeau

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ROMANESQUE PERIOD | • Distinct form of decoration aimed at relieving otherwise blank walls.

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Blind Arcading

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ROMANESQUE ARCHES | • Struck from one or more centers below springing line.

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Segmented Arch

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ROMANESQUE ARCHES | • Arch resting on an imposts treated as downward continuations of an archivolt.

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Stilted Arch

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ROMANESQUE ARCHES | • Having an intrados that widens above springing before narrowing to a rounded crown.

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Horseshoe Arch

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ROMANESQUE CHURCH PLAN | • Any longitudinal divisions separated from te nave

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Aisle

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ROMANESQUE CHURCH PLAN | • Raised platform transverse open space separating the nave and apse

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Bema

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ROMANESQUE CHURCH PLAN • As wide as the nave • Forming a square at the crossing • Consisting of the choir and the apse

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Transept

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ROMANESQUE CHURCH PLAN | • Part of the church occupied by the singers

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Choir

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ROMANESQUE CHURCH PLAN | • Semi-circular walkway with chapels off it surrounding the sanctuary.

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Ambulatory

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ROMANESQUE CHURCH PLAN | • Appointed place for preaching

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Pulpit

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ROMANESQUE CHURCH PLAN • Building or complex of buildings that houses a room reserved for prayer • Domestic quarters and workplace(s) of monastics.

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Monasteries

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ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURAL LANDMARKS | • Famous for its leaning tower

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Cathedral of Pisa

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ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURAL LANDMARKS | • Pilgrimage destination for Paul's pilgrims

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Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURAL LANDMARKS • The greatest Norman (English term for Romanesque) building in England. • Most ambitious Romanesque church

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Durham Cathedral