The early Christians of Rome painted pictures of Jesus and secretly gathered in these places under the city.
What are the catacombs?
100
This in the Byzantine emporer's name who was depicted in a church mosaic.
Who is Justinian?
100
This decoration of this book's Chi Rho page could be described as intricate, interlaced, beautiful, patterned, etc.
What is the Book of Kells?
100
In Romanesque art, like most medieval Christian art, this was not important.
What is realism?
100
Chartes Cathedral had this type of windows.
What is stained glass?
200
The sculpture of Jesus holding a lamb references classical sculpture because the stance of the body has this.
What is controposto?
200
This church was later changed to a mosque and is now a museum. This means, "Holy Wisdom."
What is the Hagia Sophia?
200
These books were bibles that were heavily decorated and illustrated by monks.
What are illumiated manuscripts?
200
These decorative boxes held relics from saints and important religious people.
What is a reliquary?
200
The windows had this type of symmetry in Chartes Cathedral.
What is RADIAL.
300
Sometimes in early christian art Jesus was depicted in this role as shown by his right hand raised in the orator pose.
What is a teacher?
300
This is what Justinian believed that he had been granted in order to display his portrait in the church.
What is divine authority (or permission from God)?
300
The flowing curvy lines of the St. Mathew page from the Ebbo gospels show this prinicple of design?
What is MOVEMENT?
300
This is one reason why Christians traveled all over Europe during the Romanesque period.
What is to go on religious pilgrimages? To see relics and be blessed? The crusades were going on?
300
Gothic architecture had skinny collumns and these types of arches.
What is pointed?
400
Different from classical sculptures of men, Jesus was not depicted in this way.
What is naked?
400
Jesus was depicted this way in Byzantine art, looking very cranky and judgmental. This word means RULER OF ALL.
What is PANTOCRATER?
400
The expresive lines of the St. Mathew page from the Ebbo gospels as well as the look on St. Mathew's face and the ink splashing out of the well evoke what emotion/meaning?
What is anxiety, frantic, rushed, hurried, worried?
400
The architecture from the Romanesque period could be described as this.
What is blocky and heavy?
400
Gothic architecture was the first to use this type of supports that helped lighten up the look of the building.
What is flying buttresses?
500
Almost all early Christian art has this, which shows imagery that represents a different idea or meaning.
What is symbolism.
500
These are the two things the body positions and facial expressions of the Virgin and Child tell us.
What is 1. tender loving moment between mother and child 2. foreshadowing of Christ's death/mother's sadness?
500
Texts were "illuminated" so that the reader could lose themselves in this.
What is meditation, enlightenment, contemplation, prayer, worship, etc?
500
This is the semi-circular or triangular relief sculpture above an arch or entry way.
What is a tympanum?
500
In the Last Judgement by Pietro Cavallini, this element of art is shown by the angle of the chairs.