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Relic

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An object surviving from an earlier time

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Reliquary

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Container for relics

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Primary relic

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Part of a saint

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Secondary relic

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Objects that the Saint came into contact with

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Forta sacra

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Sacred theft

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Closed composition

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Image where all the elements are arranged neatly inside the frame

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Open composition

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Image is dynamic or disordered

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Briscolage

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Something constructed or created from a diverse range of available things

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Cloisonné enamel

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Technique of creating designs on metal vessels with colored glass paste placed within closures made of copper or bronze wires.

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Gospels

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Any one of the first four books of the Christian bible that tell the life of Jesus

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Evangelist

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A person who seeks to convert others to Christian faith

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Carpet page

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Geometrical ornamental, which she may include repeated animal forms placed at beginning of bible

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Iconostasis

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Where the images were placed in churches

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Icoclasm

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Breaking of images

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Icon

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Images

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Iconophile

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Supports religious images/icons. Love of images

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Encaustic

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Using pigments mixed with hot wax. Type of icon painting

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Caliph

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Religious and civil leader in a Muslim country

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Aniconism/aniconic

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Absence of material representation of the natural and supernatural world

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Mihrab

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Wall of a mosque at the point nearest to Mecca. Toward which the congregation faces to pray

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Shrine

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A holy place bc of association was a sacred person or relic, typically marked by a building

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Eastern Orthodox Church

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Site of the former Byzantine empire

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Minaret

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Tall, slender tower that is a feature of a mosque. Characteristic of Islamic culture

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Pendencitives

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Constructive device permitting the place of a circle dome over a square room

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Justinian

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Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier against the Persians

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