art historyy
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copy deck
- animal style
- characteristic by linear, animal-like forms arranged in patterns
- parchment
- skin of sheep
- lintel
- a beam used to spain opening
- abbey
- a monastic community
- central plan
- parts of a building are equal dimensions
- taberna
- single roomed shop
- choir
- space reserved for the clergy and singers of church
- tympanum
- space enclosed by a lintel and arch of a portrait
- tablinium
- home office
- pantokrator
- ruler of heaven and earth
- rib vaulting
- compose structural skeleton that partially supports the masonry web
- crossing
- sace formed by intercesion of nave and transcept
- minaret
- a tower from which the faithful are called to woship
- narthex
- a porch of a church
- crypt
- a vaulted space under a part of a building
- ambulatory
- passageway aroundthe center of the alter
- relic
- body parts, clothing, or objects associated with a holy figure
- archivolt
- continous molding framing arch
- masqura
- family stays there away from everyone else
- transcept
- part of church with an axis that rosses at the nave with a right angle
- iconophile
- lover of images
- radiating chapels
- chapels for the display of relics
- lunette
- picture on inside of cubiculum semicircular w/ flat sides
- orant
- figure in ancient gesture of prayer
- pendentive
- triangular spherical section of vulting that springs from the rectangular corner to connect with dome
- verism
- truism
- catacomb
- underground barriel with tombs
- icon
- portrit or image
- codex
- predecessor of book pages of parchment are bound together
- bay
- the area between the columns or piers in the aisles and naves
- martyrium
- shrine in honor of martyr
- abbot
- elected democratically, become tyrant
- iconoclasm
- emperor leo forbid all icons
- vellum
- skin of unborn calf
- illumination
- midevil manuscript decoration
- trumeau
- the pillar or center post suporting the lintel in middle of doorway
- calligraphy
- arabic ornamental writing
- cloisonne
- a cross between mosaic and stained glass
- folio
- 1st page in codex
- gibla
- wall in mosque showing the direction of mecca
- theotokos
- bearer of a god
- iwan
- islamic architecture vaulted rectangular recess opening onto a court yard
- jamb
- side post of a doorway
- quaran
- reatations from arch angel to muhammed
- mihrab
- semicircular niche