BYZANTINE
MEDIEVAL
ROMANESQUE
GOTHIC
VOCABULARY
100

What are the two scenes we see in the Vienna Genesis?

A. Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well

B. Jacob Wrestling the Angel

100

This style is used in the Merovingian Looped Fibulae - style not technique.

Animal Style

100
The Church of Saint Foy holds what significant object? 

The Reliquary of St. Foy

100

Chartres Cathedral is made of what two materials? 

Limestone and stained glass 

100

Cloisonne refers to what work of art? 

Merovingian Looped Fibulae

200

When examining Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George, historians have identified the influence of what culture? 

Ptolemaic Egyptian Funerary Portraiture

200

Why did architects utilize Roman columns in the Great Mosque

The architects wanted to display Islamic dominance by showing the remains of the Roman building that once stood here. 

200

The radiating chapels in St. Foy are designed to be accessed by what? 

Narthex, Ambulatory, Transept, Nave

Ambulatory 

200

What are two major Gothic innovations accomplished by flying buttresses? 

New soaring heights and stained glass windows

200

Marian Devotion refers to what piece of art from the course content? 

Chartres Cathedral

300
Who are the architects of the Hagia Sophia? 

Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus

300

What is ONE reason that Muslims chose the site they did for the Great Mosque

  • The ground was already cleared and flattened
  • The site was already recognized in the community as important
  • To build here signified cultural and religious supremacy over the Romans
300

What are 2 benefits of a Cross Basilica plan? 

One entrance, one focus, can hold lots of people, symbolism in shape, pilgrims can come without disturbing locals, satisfactorily distant enough from pagan precedent
300

In the Bible Moralisee, we look at scenes from the what?

The Apocalypse

300

Where in the course content would I find a Qiblah?

Great Mosque 

400

What are the four F's of Byzantine art?

Formal subject matter, Flatness of space, Figures are frontal, Figures are floating

400

All of the following are incorporated into the interior of the Great Mosque EXCEPT:

-Horseshoe arches, compound piers, alternating voussoirs, or geometric patterns

Compound piers

400

Many elements of the Church of Sainte Foy floor plan and construction were made to accommodate what type of people? 

Pilgrims

400

What is an icon, and which piece from the course content can I attribute this word to? 

An icon is a devotional panel depicting a sacred image; the cause of iconoclasm and the Iconoclastic Controversy 

Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints           Theodore and George

500
What is distinctive about the Hagia Sophia's floor plan? 

It combines a basilica plan with a central plan. 

500

What type of mosque plan is utilized in the Great Mosque at Cordoba?

Hypostyle Hall Plan

500

St. Foys building proportions are derived from the size of which of these features: 

Dome width, crossing square, portal, side aisle width

Crossing square 

500

What is a squinch? 

The polygonal 8-sided base of a dome that transitions the dome to a square or polygonal room. 

Can be attributed to San Vitale.

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