The Romanesque period is characterized by people making holy pilgrimage to visit these objects at large stone churches throughout Europe.
What are relics?
100
This Old Testament prophet is featured on the trumeau of St. Pierre, Moissac.
Who is Jeremiah?
100
This word refers to the more naturalistic, three-dimensional style of Gothic sculpture that showed the interest of those sculptors in the arts of Antiquity.
What is classicism?
100
This word is actually a derogatory term applied to medieval art by Renaissance art historians, and is a reference to one of the barbarian tribes that toppled the revered Roman Empire.
What is Gothic?
100
This is a horizontal beam of stone supported by a post or column. In the case of medieval church portals, it was partially supported by the trumeau.
What is a lintel?
200
While many churches and cities dotted the path of Romanesque pilgrimage, this town's cathedral was the final destination for most pilgrims.
What is Santiago de Compostela?
200
This architectural feature is usually rounded and plain on Romanesque portals, though sometimes it has decorations of rosettes or simple carvings.
What are archivolts?
200
This cathedral's jamb figures can be described as columnar, showing a transition from Romanesque to Gothic in terms of the independence of statuary from architecture.
What is Chartres Cathedral?
200
The Death of the Virgin is the subject of one of this cathedral's highly classicizing tympanum reliefs.
What is Strasbourg Cathedral?
200
This is a lunette-shaped architectural feature above a church door, often carved with Biblical scenes.
What is a tympanum?
300
Popularized by the ancient Romans, this type of structure became the model for most Romanesque churches.
What is the basilica?
300
This subject, popular in Romanesque tympanums, shows Jesus in a mandorla surrounded by the symbols of the four evangelists.
What is Christ in Majesty?
300
These are the two goals of Gothic architecture.
What are height and light?
300
Two artistic devices prevalent in Romanesque art are missing from the Gothic Strasbourg tympanum: heraldic positioning, and this term, meaning the appearance of importance through relative size.
What is hieratic scale?
300
These are the individual blocks of stone that make up an arch.
What are voussoirs?
400
This church was a significant stop along the pilgrimage route in France, with relics as well as a carved portal featuring a relief of Christ in Majesty.
What is St. Pierre, Moissac?
400
This term refers to the separation of an image into right and left in order to indicate those that are good and evil, or greater and lesser.
What is heraldic positioning?
400
These three architectural elements achieve the goals of Gothic architecture?
What are flying buttresses, pointed arches, and stained glass windows?
400
This German Gothic sculpture is a truly provocative and emotional rendition of an image of Mary mourning the dead Jesus.
What is the Roettgen Pieta?
400
This is a narrative or group of narratives conveyed through sculpture, painting, or other art medium. This term refers to the subject matter, such as the Last Judgment, and the images chosen to convey it.
What is an iconographic program?
500
This church featured a rounded tympanum with carvings depicting the Last Judgment.
What is St. Lazare, Autun?
500
This church held the relics of a New Testament figure very close to Jesus, and its tympanum decoration showed the stylized abstraction of Romanesque sculptural style.
What is St. Lazare, Autun?
500
Gothic architecture began with renovations to this church in 1144.
What is St. Denis?
500
Three elements create a more dramatic entry to Gothic churches than Romanesque ones: a triple portal, pointed gables and archivolts, and this.
What is a deeper porch?
500
This is a container for holy relics, often decorated with gold, silver, enamel, or precious stones.