AHS 101 test 5 final
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- medieval
- describes the art and culture of the middle ages; fall of the Roman empire to Renaissance (400-1400)
- cloisonne enamel
- partitional glass (powder is heated) gold sections divide glass
- Gospel Book
- Matt, Mark, Luke, & John written stories (always New Testament)
- Psalter
- selection from Bible--essentially book of Psalms
- Hiberno-Saxon
- Irish-English (refers to early christian art in those countries)
- Charlemagne
- emporer who conquered most of the Western Europe (holy roman empire)
- Benedictine Order
- all monasteries that follow St. Benedict rules
- westwork
- entrance architecture that's very intricate including the towers
- Bishop Bernward
- highly educated, principle consultant to emporer otto III
- choir
- section between transept and apse
- transept
- (north and south) crosses across nave of church
- gallery
- middle 2nd floor over side aisle under clerestory
- pilgrimage
- journey undertaken to visit a sacred place
- relic
- bosy of a saint or piece of bosy
- reliquary
- a container for a relic
- radiating chapels
- small aspes that come off large apse. Hold relics.
- Cluny
- most important benedictine monastery of Romanesque/ center of power/ constantly being built
- historiated capitals
- capitals with figures on them (usually people sometimes beasts) very romanesque/sometimes biblical
- ribbed groin vault
- adding ribs to groins which make a criss-cross pattern to hold up thinner ceiling so a clerestory can be added
- jambs
- sides of portal doorway with sculpture
- tympanum
- rounded inside arch stone panel over door with sculpture
- archivolts
- arches around tympanum
- cloister
- courtyard with covered walkway surrounding lots of biblical historiated capitals
- embroidery
- women's work, england, stitching images onto plain cloth
- Norman Invasion
- story on Bayeux Tapestry (King Edward dies, no heir to throne, 3 guys, harold gets it, duke of normandy attacks and takes over)
- Saint Denis
- first french missionary
- Abbot Suger
- (head monk of St. Denis Cathedral) ambitious and intelligent. Wanted "Gothic Style" at his church and patronned it
- chevet
- rounded east end of church (apse, ambulatory, radiating chapels--merged)
- pointed arch
- structure allowing arch to go higher and not wider
- stained glass window
- "light of God" windows with stories and colored glass
- nave arcade
- series of arches between nave and side aisles
- flying butresses
- (stone tower is butress and arches are flyers) support structure to hold cathedrals together outside the bulding "exoskelten screen"
- triforium
- (high goth) "pretend gallery" row of columns above nave that has wall directly behind
- Annunciation
- mary is greeted by heavenly angel who announces mary will concieve and bear God's son
- Louis IX
- gothic king of france; commisioned Sainte-Chapelle Church
- Flamboyant Gothic
- late french gothic style of architecture superseding the Rayonnant style and named for the flamelike appearences of costly marble panels
- pendant vaults
- large decorative pendants hang from the vault at a distance from the walls
- alarpiece
- painting located at altar of church
- Italo-Byzantine
- strict formality, a linear flatness, a shallow space, and an emphasis on the spiritual
- Franciscans
- (late-middle-ages) follow St. Francis; presense of Jesus is personal and loving
- Siena
- city in italy
- Florence
- city in italy, hub of art