Islamic
Romanesque and Gothic
Northern Renaissance
Italian Renaissance
High Renaissance and Mannerist
100
The most holy site in Islam
The Ka'aba
100
Shown above, these are clasps used to fasten garments; made popular in the 6th and 7th centuries in Europe by invading Roman armies.
Fibulae (s. Fibula)
100
This is a painted or a sculpted panel set on an altar of a church.
Altarpiece
100
David is often used as a symbol of this Italian city.
Florence
100
Figures, such as the one above from the Sistine Chapel Ceiling, are these Greco-Roman prophetesses whose prophecies prefigure the coming of Christ.
Sibyls
200
The wall of a mosque that faces Mecca
Qibla
200
The invasion force that came to England in 1066 and the content of this famous embroidery.
Normans
200
A three-paneled altarpiece
Triptych
200
This was an intellectual movement during the Renaissance that emphasized the secular alongside the religious.
Humanism
200
This is a smokey or hazy effect that is employed by High Renaissance painters to distance the viewer from the subject of a painting.
Sfumato
300
This architect designed the Mosque of Sultan Selim II.
Sinan
300
The Golden Haggadah is an incredibly rare and rich example of narration of this Hebrew ritual.
Passover (Seder)
300
The Arnolfini Portrait was painted by this Dutch Master.
Jan van Eyck
300
The Madonna and Child with Two Angels was painted by this Italian painter.
Fra Filippo Lippi
300
Raphael was commissioned by this patron to paint the School of Athens.
Pope Julius II
400
A highly ornamental Arabic script
Kufic
400
The Arena Chapel was commissioned by this man in an effort to atone for his sins of Usury.
Enrico Scroveigni
400
The artist Lucas Cranach the Elder consulted this theologian when completing his Allegory of Law and Grace.
Martin Luther
400
This means "fools the eye" and is a form of painting that attempts to represent an object as existing in three dimensions, and therefore resembling the real thing.
Trompe l'oeil
400
This artist created a commotion when he painted the Venus of Urbino, the first in a tradition of reclining nude female figures.
Titian
500
A rectangular vaulted space in a Muslim building that is walled on three sides and open on the fourth.
Iwan
500
This means a "fear of empty spaces" and is exemplified by this Cross Page from the Lindisfarne Gospels.
Horror Vacui
500
The Isenheim Altarpiece was commissioned for a hospital for people suffering from this disease.
Ergotism
500
This building, designed by renowned architect Filippo Brunelleschi, functioned as a Chapter House for Franciscan monks.
Pazzi Chapel
500
This is a simple rural or rustic setting used especially in Venetian paintings of the High Renaissance.
Arcadian