Gothic architecture
Gothic cathedral ceilings are composed of this type of vault, named for its intersecting elements.
RIB Vaults
He solved the problem of overcrowding in the old Romanesque cathedral of Chartres by redesigning it in a new style to promote his doctrine of “Nova Lux.”
Abbott SUGER
The Prima Porta Augustus was found at a villa belonging to this woman, the mother of Tiberius and wife of Augustus.
LIVIA
It’s the term for stripey alternation of different colored stone, especially in the arches of Islamic buildings, as in the hypostyle hall of the Mosque of Cordoba.
ABLAQ
Title pages of this evangelist’s gospel always feature a lion, sometimes with wings.
Saint MARK
It's the earliest of the three big Insular Gospel Books, and includes a man in a checkerboard cloak as the incipit page of the gospel of Matthew.
Book of DURROW
Filled with tracery and stained glass, this is the big round window at the narthex end of the nave in a Gothic cathedral.
ROSE Window
He’s the Maurya dynasty ruler of India who commissioned the Great Stupa of Sanchi.
ASHOKA
She is shown presenting the eucharistic chalice in a mosaic in Ravenna’s church of San Vitale.
The Empress THEODORA
It’s located in the Mesjid Al-Haram in Mecca, and is the centre of much circumambulation during the Hajj.
The QA’ABA
They’re the two saints beseeching Jesus in the Deesis mosaic of the Hagia Sophia.
MARY and JOHN THE BAPTIST
Blanche of Castile was the mother of this French king, depicted with her on the title page of the Moralised Bible from 1234 AD.
LOUIS IX
These are the structural solution to the problem of thin, tall walls. They provide exterior force to keep them upright.
FLYING BUTTRESSES
This Ottoman sultan was the patron of the architect Sinan, whom he commissioned to build a mosque with a bigger dome than the Hagia Sophia.
SELIM II
The wife of this ruler was a member of the powerful Fujiwara family, and she urged her husband to make Buddhism the official religion of Japan.
The Emperor SHOMU
The year 2024 AD is 1445 in the Muslim calendar, which dates from this event.
The HEJIRA
These two saints flank the virgin Mary and baby Jesus in the encaustic icon from St. Catherine’s monastery.
Saints THEODORE and GEORGE
The Annals of Ulster record that this book was stolen in 1007 and found again hidden under a sod, but its jeweled cover was never recovered.
The BOOK OF KELLS
These are the ornaments on the top of the piers of a Gothic cathedral.
PINNACLES
He is the probable patron of the Bayeux tapestry, since he was the bishop of Bayeux and half-brother of William the Conqueror.
Bishop ODO
She rose from the lowly position of a 14 year old concubine to become empress of China during the Tang Dynasty, and sponsored artwork in the Longmen Caves.
WU ZETIAN (WUHOU)
It’s an elevated platform or podium in a mosque.
MINBAR
She’s the mother of the Virgin Mary, depicted in scenes in Giotto’s Arena chapel and in a tondo by Fra Filippo Lippi.
St. ANNE
It's the script in which the Vatican Virgil is written.
RUSTIC CAPITALS
A visitation with classical drapery and an annunciation with a smiling Gabriel are among the almost-Renaissance jamb figures of this French cathedral.
RHEIMS
DAILY DOUBLE
This Safavid ruler of Persia commissioned the Shahnameh that includes the miniature painting of the Court of Gayumars.
She's the only person who went by the title "Empress of India."
Queen Victoria
Islamic architecture often features this type of arch, which is round at the top and narrower at the bottom than on the sides.
HORSESHOE arch
DAILY DOUBLE
This 12-year old girl was tortured to death with a red-hot brazier during the persecutions under Diocletian, and her relics were stolen from Agen by a monk from Conques.
It’s the book that contains Bahram Gur Fights the Karg and the Death of Iskander, and it assimilates its illustrations to the fashions and ethnicity of the dynasty that commissioned it.
GREAT MONGOL SHAHNAMEH