What is the reuse of architectural or sculptural elements called? Tall slender columns taken from the Temple of Juno in Rome symbolized the triumph of Christianity over paganism.
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The architectural style of Santa Vitale.
What is Byzantine?
100
These were its three uses over the course of it's existence.
What were a former Christian patriarchal basilica (church), an imperial mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey?
100
This is where the church is built.
What is the route to Santiago de Compostela in Northern Spain?
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It was a quarry
What was the location of the Catacomb used for in Roman times ?
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The Santa Sabina represents the crossover from these two architectural styles.
What is a roofed Roman forum transitioning to the churches of Christendom.
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A public building having a central nave with an apse at one or both ends and two side aisles formed by rows of columns, which was used as a courtroom or assembly hall.
What is a Basilica?
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A mathematician and a physicist
What were the professions of the two men that designed the Hagia Sophia?
200
These enabled the church to handle the large number of visitors.
Wide transepts and a large ambulatory with radiating chapels.
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The wife of the Consul Acilius who became a Christian and was killed on the orders of Domitian.
Who was Pricilla?
300
Santa Sabina was built by Peter of Illyria, a Dalmatian priest, during this time period.
What was between 422 and 432
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An antechamber, porch, or distinct area at the western entrance of some early Christian churches, separated off by a railing and used by Christians preparing for confirmation, and penitents.
What is a narthex?
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A triangular shaped piece of masonry with the dome resting on the long side and the two shorter sides channeling the weight down to a pier below.
What is a pendentive?
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This is the architectural style of the church.
What is a Romanesque style church? It has a barrel-vaulted nave lined with arches on the interior.
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Passageways radiating out for hundreds of miles
What are catacombs?
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Sabina had been converted to Christianity by her servant Seraphia.
What caused the death of Sabina? Sabina was beheaded under the Emperor Vespasian, or perhaps Hadrian, because she had been converted to Christianity by her servant Seraphia, who was stoned to death.
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The ambulatory
What is a place for walking, especially an aisle around the apse or a cloister in a church or monastery called?
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The squinch.
What is a variation of the pendentive called? The squinch was introduced by middle and late Byzantine architects as a variation of the pendentive.
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The floor plan shape.
What is the cruciform plan? Not only did this plan take the symbolic form of the cross but it also helped control the crowds of pilgrims.
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Burials rather than cremation
What practice symbolized Jesus's rising from the dead- body and soul?
500
The earliest depiction of Christ on the cross is found at this part of the church.
What is found on the wooden door of the basilica?
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These are the Roman and Byzantine elements.
What are the Roman elements: the dome, shape of doorways, and stepped towers;and Byzantine elements: polygonal apse, capitals, and narrow bricks?
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Causes a great circle of light.
What are 40 windows around the base of the dome? The dome is composed of ribs meeting at the top. The spaces between the ribs do not support the dome and are opened for window space.
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Place The Last Judgment is located.
What is the tympanum at the entrance of the church?