Important Terms
Sarcophagi
History
Architecture
Architecture II
100
Any figure with both arms raise in the ancient gesture of prayer.
What is an orant?
100
Vast substerranean chambers designed as cemeteries for burying the Christian dead
What are catacombs?
100
To teach new converts about the dogma and practices of Christianity.
Why did early Christians portray the Life of Jesus in art?
100
Old St. Peter's is an example of this style church.
What is basilican?
100
This church was orginally built as a chapel to the martyred St. Lawrence.
What is Mausoleum of Galla Placida?
200
The amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religions, cultures or schools of thought.
What is sycretism?
200
The heads of center figures on sarcophagi were often left unfinished for this reason
What is workshops produced them without knowing who would buy them?
200
This edict by Constantine ended the persecution of Christians
What is the Edit of Milan in 313?
200
This architectural feature is the primary light source in early Christian churches.
What is clerestory windows?
200
The Mausoleum of Galla Placidia is an example of this type of cross-shaped church.
What is cruciform?
300
The depiction of old testament persons and events as prophetic forerunners of Christ and the New Testament.
What is prefiguration?
300
This sarcophagus was sculpted on 3 sides in a register format.
What is Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus?
300
This city in present day Turkey was considered "New Rome"
What is Constantinople?
300
Body parts, clothing or other objects associated with a saint or with Christ - often kept in the transept.
What is a relic?
300
Every inch of the interior of Galla Placidia is covered with this artistic treatment.
What is mosaics?
400
A person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.
What is a patron?
400
These are the themes of the niche relief sculptures on the Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus.
What is Old & New Testament scenes; Job, Daniel, Pilate, Jesus enthroned & Palms etc.
400
Just prior to the sack of Rome by the Visogoths, Honorius moves the capital to this city.
What is Ravenna?
400
The basilican plan was based on the plan of this Roman civic building.
What is Basilica Ulpia in the Forum of Trajan?
400
We know that Christ is divine in the mosaic in Galla Placidia because the artist has added these 2 symbols.
What is the halo and the cross?
500
Term used in architecture to indicate that the building is running lengthwise rather than across.
What is longitudinal?
500
These symbols represent Jesus, his blood and cherubs on the Good Shepherd Sarcopagus.
What is shepherd & sheep; grapevines & grapes; cupid
500
This emperor made Christianity the official state religion; banned pagan worship and ended the Olympic games.
Who was Theodsius I?
500
The Church of Santa Costanza is an example of this type of church plan.
What is central-plan?
500
Mosaics made of tiny, fine stones.
What is tesserae?
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