AP Art History Unit 2/1
Terms
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- nave
- the main aisle of a church
- cubiculum
- small underground room serving as a mortuary chapel
- pantocrator
- figured of Christ placed above the altar in a Byzantine church
- triptych
- a three paneled painting or sculpture
- synagogue
- Jewish house of worship
- psalter
- book of psalms from the bible
- cathedral
- main church of a city
- squinch
- a polygonal base that supprots a dome
- mihrab
- the niche in a mosque which indicates the direction to Mecca
- narthex
- the lobby of a church
- calligraphy
- decorative or elaborate handwriting
- iconostasis
- screen decorated with icons
- mosque
- a Muslim house of worship
- clerestory
- "clear story" or third window story of a buildnig
- apse
- the end point of a church where the altar is
- minaret
- a tall, slender Islamic column used to call people to prayer
- triforium
- second story of a church in early Christianity decorated with mosaics
- iconography
- the study of the symbolic meanings of objects in art
- basilica
- building used as a gathering place in Rome/planned church in early Christianity
- icon
- a panel depicting a sacred image