Vocabulary

Question 1

Eucharist

Answer 1

Consecrated bread and wine; central sacrament of Christian worship

Question 2

Fresco

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Wall painting made by applying pigment to a wet plaster surface. Durable

Question 3

Syncretism

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Assimilation of images from other traditions and giving them new meanings

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Narrative

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Tells a story

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Orant

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Frontal figure with arms raised in an attitude of prayer or supplication

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Contrapposto

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In art, the stance in which a human figure stands with most of its weight on on foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs

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Typology

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Method of biblical interpretation whereby an element found in the Hebrew bible is seen to prefigure (foreshadow) one found in the New Testament

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Didactic

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Instructional

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Liturgy

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Rituals or ceremonies of a religion

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Mosaic

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Image made from the assemblage of small pieces of colored glass or stone

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Apse

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Semicircular wall niche

Used to highlight the most sacred part of a church/basilica

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Clerestory

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Row of windows at the top of a building that lets in light

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Nave

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Center aisle of a basilica

Comes from the nave of a boat

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Narthex

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Covered porch at the entrance of a church/basilica

Where non baptized people wait while the Eucharist is being preformed

Question 15

Transept

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Rectangular space that intersects the nave at right angles

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Central plan

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Plan with a more or less equal radius between the central point and sides of a structure, such as in a circular, square, or octagonal building

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Ambulatory

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Curved or concentric aisle in a church

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Barrel vault

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Round arch extended three-dimensionally into space

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Caesaropapism

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Mixing religious and secular power in one person

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Naos

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Sanctuary area in a Byzantine church

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Pendentive

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Inverted triangular piece of masonry that supports a circular dome over a polygonal space

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Iconoclasm “image-breaking”

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8th century campaign of rejection and destruction of sacred religious images in the Byzantine Empire

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Pantokrator “God Almighty”

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Byzantine image type of Jesus, depicted as a single, usually bust-length figure of judgment and authority

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Tempera

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paint made with pigments suspended in egg yolk, popular in Byzantine

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Theotokos “God-bearer”

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Byzantine image type of the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child

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Encaustic

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Paint made with pigments mixed with wax, popular with Byzantine

Question 27

Author Page

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in an illuminated gospel book, a page at the beginning of a gospel text with a portrait or symbol of its author

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Carpet Page

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In an illuminated gospel book, a page that often follows the author page that is characterized by pure ornament

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Horror Vacui

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“Fear of emptiness” filling the entire surface of an artwork with decorative details

Question 30

Initial page

Answer 30

in an illuminated gospel book, the page that often fallows the carpet page that contains the decorated incipit of the gospel text it introduces

Question 31

Incipit

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First words of a gospel text

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Anthropomorphic

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exhibiting human features

Question 33

Westwork

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Monumental, west-facing entrance structure of a Carolingian, Ottonian, or Romanesque church, consisting of multiple stories between two towers