Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
Christian Art
Byzantine Empire
Christian Art Part 2
100
An instrument used to carve.
What is strigil?
100
A box or chest, especially one for valuables.
What is a coffer?
100
A burial chamber, as in catacombs.
What is a cubiculum?
100
A breaker or destroyer of images, especially those set up for religious veneration.
What is an iconoclast?
100
A courtyard, flanked or surrounded by porticoes, in front of an early or medieval Christian church.
What is an atrium?
200
To represent the subject matter truthfully.
What is realism?
200
An Emperor.
What is an imperator?
200
An enclosed passage between the main entrance and the nave of a church.
What is narthex?
200
One who loves icons, illustrations, pictures.
What is an iconophile?
200
A form of public worship; ritual.
What is liturgy?
300
the pursuit of pleasure
What is Hedonism?
300
heavenly
What is celestory?
300
The principal longitudinal area of a church, extending from the main entrance or narthex to the chancel.
What is a nave?
300
A small square tile of stone, glass, etc, used in mosaics
What is a tesserae?
300
To show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
What is prefigure?
400
Any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields.
What is a sophists?
400
A semicircular or polygonal termination or recess in a building, usually vaulted and used especially at the end of a choir in church.
What is apses?
400
Any major transverse part of the body of a church, usually crossing the nave, at right angles, at the entrance of the choir.
What is transept?
400
A hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified; Calvary. A place of suffering or sacrifice. A place of burial.
What is golgotha?
400
The condition, sufferings, or death of a martyr.
What is martyrdom?
500
A slight convexity given to a column or tower, as to correct an optical illusion.
What is entasis?
500
A room or covered area open on one side, used as a meeting place.
What is an exedrae?
500
A shining cloud sometimes surrounding a deity when on earth.
What is a nimbus?
500
A title of the Virgin Mary as the Mother of the incarnate Son of God.
What is Theotokos?
500
Adapted for walking, as the limbs of many animals.
What is ambulatory?
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