This period in history begins when Rome falls and the Church gains power.
What is the Middle Ages or Medieval period?
100
This period of Medieval Art borrowed elements from Roman architecture such as rounded arches and columns.
What is the Romanesque Period?
100
These mosaics used sacred Christian subjects.
What are Byzantine or Medieval mosiacs?
100
This is another word for vellum.
What is parchment?
200
A word that is concerned with the bodily structure.
What is anatomy?
200
Medieval artist were mainly interested in the salvation of this spiritual entity of the individual. (hint: In the Egyptian era this entity is referred to as the KA)
What is the soul?
200
This is Medieval architecture’s greatest triumph.
What is the Gothic Cathedral?
200
These mosaics were most often found on the floors of private homes.
What are Roman mosaics?
200
This is what the covers of medieval illuminated manuscripts were decorated with.
What is gold and gems?
300
A set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true.
What is dogma or doctrine?
300
During the Medieval period this was the major purchaser of art.
What is the Church?
300
Elements of this period's cathedrals are: a vertical emphasis, pointed arches, and a richly decorated exterior.
What are gothic cathedrals?
300
In these mosaics this was most often sky-blue or gold.
What are the backgrounds of Byzantine mosaics?
300
This did not exist in the Middle Ages so manuscripts had to be created by hand.
What is the printing press?
400
A narrative picture used as illustration in illuminated manuscripts.
What is a miniature?
400
During the Medieval period art became this to the Church.
What is a servant?
400
These two developments allowed architecture of the Gothic period to grow taller.
What are pointed arches and flying buttresses?
400
You would most likely find an example of this type of mosaic in a church apse.
What are Byzantine mosaics?
400
These spiritual people lived in monasteries and travelled to distant monasteries to copy manuscripts and bring them back home.
What are monks?
500
These are animal and human hybrids that are found in the initials or the borders of illuminated manuscripts.
What is a drollery?
500
Through the material beauty of the art during the Medieval period, church leaders (and theologians) believed church members would come to appreciate this.
What is divine beauty?
500
These are the reasons why the cathedrals of the Romanesque period were dark and somber.
What are heavy stone roofs and not many windows?
500
In these mosaics this type of cube was used to create more realistic details.
What are the tiny or minute pieces of Romanesque mosaics?
500
This person would have prepared the surface of the parchment for the scribe and the illuminator to decorate the medieval manuscript.