Ivories of al-Andalus
This type of container for aromatics and jewelry was frequently made of ivory.
What is a pyxis?
This structural feature for vaulting buildings derived from Roman architecture is one of the hallmarks of Romanesque
What is a rounded arch?
This architectural innovation allowed for taller and thinner walls with larger windows.
What is the flying buttress?
This architectural feature of the al-Aqmar mosque was a first in Cairo.
What is the facade aligned to the street?
This architectural form was among the most popular in the design of late Byzantine churches, although each building represented its own variation on the theme.
What is the cross-in-square church?
This Andalusian city was a major center of ivory production in the 10th and 11th centuries.
What is Cordoba?
Romanesque architecture primarily flourished during these centuries.
What are the 11th and 12th centuries?
Who was Abbot Suger?
This Fatimid vizier commissioned the al-Aqmar mosque.
Who is al-Ma’mun?
This prominent scholar, and first non-imperial founder of a monastery in the Late Byzantine period, undertook a major restoration of the Chora Monastery around 1315.
Who was Theodore Metochites?
According to Anthony Cutler, Andalusian ivories differ from those of Byzantium and the Ottonian Empire in their secular rather than their ________ function.
What is religious function?
This church in France, known for its pilgrimage route, features an elaborate south portal with a tympanum depicting the Last Judgment.
What is the Church of Saint Pierre in Moissac?
Abbot Suger compares the treasury of Saint-Denis to that of this famous Byzantine church.
What is Hagia Sophia?
Behrens-Abouseif argues that this architectural element on the al-Aqmar mosque facade symbolizes the vizier.
What is the closed door?
This feature of the Chora's architecture suggests its builders were aware of innovations in European architecture.
What is the flying buttress?
This piece of equipment allowed Andalusian ivory workers to create tubular objects with smooth interiors and a perfect fit for lids.
What is a lathe?
Pacht identifies this technique, similar to musical harmony, as the central design principle of the Admont Bible illustrations.
What is interlace (interlacing of forms and colors)?
According to Suger, light serves as a metaphor for this concept.
What is divine truth or knowledge?
This Fatimid mosque in Cairo had beautiful minarets, but its patron walled them up for reasons that remain unclear.
What is the mosque of al-Hakim?
Ousterhout suggests that scholarly misinterpretations of Byzantine monastic sites may stem from applying this perspective to Byzantine architecture.
What is a Western or Eurocentric perspective?
This object, made for the son of ‘Abd al-Raḥmān III, features scenes of falconry and date picking.
What is the Pyxis of al-Mughira?
Cluny III was designed to be this type of church, despite not being located on any of the main routes and the fact that it was a monastery.
What is a pilgrimage church?
Suger argues that the lavishness of the church's decoration is justified because the objects serve this ultimate purpose.
What is the celebration of the Eucharist?
This Christian monument in Jerusalem was famously destroyed by one of the Fatimid caliphs.
What is the Church of the Holy Sepulcher?
The Chora Monastery's parekklesion features imagery of the Last Judgment and the Harrowing of Hell in its murals, perhaps because it is this type of chapel.
What is a funerary or burial chapel?