Ottonian and Romanesque Doorways
Gothic Architecture and Sculpture
Proto Italian Renaissance
Romanesque
Intro to Giotto
100
An object surviving from an earlier time
What is a relic?
100
A medieval association of craftsmen or merchants, often having considerable power.
What is a guild?
100
A work of art, esp. a painting on wood, set above and behind an altar.
What is a altarpiece?
100
Has openings through which light from outside can shine down to the crossing.
What is a lantern tower?
100
A city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state.
What is a city state?
200
A receptacle, such as a coffer or shrine, for keeping or displaying sacred relics
What is a reliquary?
200
A projecting support of stone or brick built against a wall.
What is a buttress?
200
Marks corresponding to those left on Jesus’ body by the Crucifixion, said to have been impressed by divine favor on the bodies of St. Francis of Assisi and others.
What is stigmata?
200
Protrusions on the transept where reliquaries with their relics held
What is a radiating chapel?
200
A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.
What is republics?
300
A wedge-shaped or tapered stone used to construct an arch.
What is a voussoirs?
300
A buttress slanting from a separate pier, typically forming an arch with the wall it supports.
What is flying buttresses?
300
A picture or sculpture of the Virgin Mary holding the dead body of Jesus Christ on her lap or in her arms.
What is pieta?
300
Sacred thefts
What is furta sacra?
300
The epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe
What is the Black Death?
400
A side post or surface of a doorway, window, or fireplace.
What is a jamb?
400
A small, broad, two-edged surgical knife or blade with a sharp point.
What is a lancet?
400
Art which is characterized by a strict formality, a linear flatness, a shallow space, and an emphasis on the spiritual.
What is the Italo-Byzantine style?
400
An arch whose span is at right angles to the length of a vaulted space.
What is a transverse arch?
400
Literature written in the speech of the "common people"
What is vernacular literature?
500
A pointed oval figure used as an architectural feature and as an aureole enclosing figures such as Jesus Christ or the Virgin Mary in medieval art.
What is a mandorla?
500
A gallery or arcade above the arches of the nave, choir, and transepts of a church.
What is a triforium?
500
A style in art during the late 14th and early 15th centuries characterized by elegant stylization of illuminated manuscripts, mosaics, stained glass, etc., and by increased interest in secular themes. Major contributors were Simone Martini, Giotto, and Pisanello
What is International Art?
500
A piece of thick textile fabric with pictures or designs formed by weaving colored weft threads or by embroidering on canvas, used as a wall hanging or furniture covering.
What is a tapestry?
500
An outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters
What is humanism?
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