chapter 4+9+11
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Terms
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- cista
- an etruscan cylindrical container made of sheet bronze with cast handles and feet, sued for women's toilet articles
- cycladic figure
- an ancient aegean figure that is served for grave markers/ modern looking/ broad shouders/triangle shaped head
- conches
- semicircular apse or its domed roof
- crete
- the largest of the Greek islands/resites minoan culture
- diptych
- any object with two flat plates attached at a hinge
- illuminated manuscript
- manuscript in which the text is supplemented by the addition of decoration
- Illiad
- epic poem of homer
- Cycladic Islands
- Greek island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece
- labyrinth
- elaborate structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos. Its function was to hold the Minotaur
- kamares ware
- a type of extremely fine palace pottery in the minoan culture
- Iconoclasm
- ban of icons/image breaking
- pendentives
- constructive device permitting the placing of a circular dome over a square room or an elliptical dome over a rectangular room.
- voussoir
- a wedge-shaped block used in the construction of a true arch. the central voussoir is the keystone
- acroterion
- blocks resting on the vertex and lower extermities of a pediment to support statuary or ornaments
- anastasis
- deliver adam and eve from hell
- minoan
- ancient aegean culture on the island of crete
- parchment
- thin material made from calfskin, sheepskin or goatskin. Its most common use is as the pages of a book, codex or manuscript
- ravenna
- city in italy where u can find san vitale
- faience
- tin glazed pottery
- synagogue
- where jews worship god
- iconography
- symbol of a certain religion
- repousse
- metal pounding technique
- cupola
- is a small, most-often dome-like structure, on top of a building
- catacomb
- ancient underground passageways or subterranean cemeteries where christians hide and made art
- tempera
- type of paint which mixes egg into the pigments
- king minos
- mythical king of Crete/son of zeus europa
- Fresco(buon and seco)
- painting tecnique which paints on either wet or dry plaster
- fibula
- a decorative pin, usually used to fasten garments
- tufa
- type of calcite vocanic rock
- tholos
- alternative name for beehive/rounded structure
- greek orthodox church
- the church 's history traces back to the Hellenized eastern portion of the Roman Empire, especially Constantinople
- old testament
- refers to the books that form the first of the two-part of christian bible
- old saint peter's church
- basillican church build by constantine
- annunciation
- the revelation of mary by the angel gabriel that she's gonna have a baby
- necropolis
- city of the dead, or burial area for a living city
- Troy
- a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad
- Terra cotta
- type of brownish reddish ceremic
- Heinrich Schliemann
- discovered the 'Mask of Agamemnon' and mycenaean culture
- piers
- upright support for a superstructure, such as an arch or bridge/square shaped wider than pillars
- mycenaean
- ancient aegean culture according to home's epic poems
- marble
- rock / the whiter it is the more precious
- rotunda
- any building with a circular ground plan
- justinian
- great emperior of Late Antiquity
- cruciform
- having the shape of a cross
- sculpture in the round
- free standing sculptures
- transfiguration
- christ rose from death turns into a cross
- arcuated gateway
- an arch-shaped gateway
- chimera
- a monster with the head and body of a lion and the tail of a serpent. a goat head grows out of one side of the body
- minotaur
- creature that was part man and part bull
- nimbus
- the disk or ring around the head of a sacred figure
- rhyton
- container from which fluids were intended to be drunk
- Beehive tomb
- also known as tholos tomb of the Mycenaean culture/built as corbelled arches
- knossos
- Knossos Palace is the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete
- crucifixion
- type of punishment where you nail a person on a cross
- tumulus
- burial mound that covers one or more subterranean multichambered tombs cut out of the local tufa