Early Christian
The Vienna Genesis’ medium.
What is an illuminated manuscript?
The process used to make the Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George.
What is encaustic (hot wax)?
The arches are characteristic of Romanesque architecture.
What are round arches?
This piece of Gothic architecture added support to the tall walls.
What are flying buttresses?
The period of time when people destroyed icons and banned veneration of icons due to the fear of violating the second commandment.
What is iconoclasm?
The type of former Roman building that early Christians transformed into churches.
What is a basilica?
The layout of the San Vitale.
What is a central plan?
The three-dimensional item to hold a saint’s relics.
What is a reliquary?
The act of Christians traveling to different churches in order to see relics.
What is a pilgrimage?
The period from antiquity to the Renaissance.
What is the Medieval period?
The reason why early Christians repurposed basilicas.
What is indoor worship?
The patron of the Hagia Sophia.
Who is Emperor Justinian?
An arcade having no actual openings applied as decoration to a wall surface.
What is Blind Arcade?
The cathedral that is said to contain Mary’s tunic.
What is the Chartres Cathedral?
The new location of the Roman capital.
What is Constantinople?
A required work that is a burial site and not a place of worship.
What is the Catacomb of Priscilla?
Emperor and his wife who were commemorated in mosaics.
Who are Justinian and Theodora?
Romanesque church plans were often in this form. It had radiating chapels.
What is Cruciform?
Every church has this.
What is a relic?
During the last part of the Roman Empire, this Roman Emperor legalized Christianity.
Who is Constantine the Great?
The biblical scene that was not shown in very early Christian art.
What is the Crucifixion?
Constantinople was located in the country called this today.
What is Turkey?
The side posts of a medieval portal.
What is Jamb?
Early Christians believed that Gargoyles on Gothic Churches represented.
What is evil leaving the church?
This saint’s attribute is a lion.
Who is St. Mark?