In 330 CE, this Roman Emperor became the first Christian Emperor of Rome and declared Christianity the state sanctioned religion.
Who is Constantine I?
100
This is the primary entryway into the church.
What is the narthex?
100
This is the primary entryway to a central-plan church.
What is the narthex?
100
Early Christian art diverges from the Hebrew traditions that preceded it in the presence of what?
What are representations of the divine?
100
This category of Christian art is named for the city it flourished in, which is now in this modern-day city.
What is Istanbul?
200
In what kind of container were early Christian worshipers buried in?
What is a sarcophagus?
200
This is the higher level of open windows to provide the church interior with light and air.
What is the clerestory?
200
These are small semi-circular openings along the inside wall of the church.
What are exedrae?
200
Most of our Early Christian art (art that preceded the reign of Constantine I) we have from what kind of underground structures?
What are catacombs?
200
Byzantine continued the early Christian tradition of substituting the realism of the Greco-Roman times with the use of what?
What is symbolism?
300
When the first Christian Roman Emperor came to power, he moved the capital of Rome to this city.
What is Byzantium?
300
This is another name for the main gathering area of the church, flanked on either sides by colonnaded aisles.
What is the nave?
300
This is another name for the larger semi-circular opening at either end of the interior space.
What is the apse?
300
This is a common phrase that refers to Jesus Christ herding, or with a sheep draped over his shoulders.
What is the Good Shepherd.
300
This is the art form that involves small tesserae placed together to form an image. Can be found throughout Byzantine church interior decoration.
What is mosaic?
400
In 395 CE, the Roman Empire was split by the Emperor Theodosius I into these two parts.
What is the Western (Roman) Empire and the Eastern (Byzantine) Empire?
400
This is the semi-circular opening at the east end of the church where the altar would be location.
What is the apse?
400
This is the main worship area of a central-plan church, where (in some cases) the altar would be located.
What is the naos?
400
This term refers to a basilica-plan church that features a transept that runs perpendicular to the main basilica plan.
What is cruciform?
400
These three Fs and a G can be used to quickly summarize Byzantine artistic traditions.
What is Flat, Floating, Frontal, Gold backgrounds?
500
The Christian holy book differs from the Jewish holy book in the inclusion of this collection of stories.
What is the New Testament?
500
This famous basilica-plan church finished construction in 432 CE in Rome. It is the oldest extant basilica-plan church that still has its original construction.
What is the Santa Sabina.
500
This eastern-orthodox cathedral, built in 537 CE in Constantinople, would later become a mosque and is now a museum.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
500
This cruciform basilica church was completed around 324 CE, during the reign of Constantine I, and is now the site of the New St. Peter's Cathedral in Vatican City.
What is Old St. Peter's?
500
The large triangular architectural element allows engineers to place a circular or elliptical dome over a square or rectangular room.