It's All Greek To Me
This architectural order, the most complex of the three, is also said to have derived from the acanthus leaves typical of the Mediterranean landscape.
What is the Corinthian order?
The synagogue in Dura-Europas displayed wall paintings of biblical themes to honor this religion.
What is Judaism?
During the Gothic Period, many of these--such as the Virgin Mary's tunic or Christ's crown of thorns--were housed in churches and became the focus of pilgrimages.
What are relics?
What is stained glass?
The individualized features of colossal heads of the Olmec from Mexico were believed to represent these types of people and not deities.
Who are rulers?
This Athenian general was elected 15 times to lead the great city-state of Athens in antiquity.
Who is Pericles?
Who is Saint Peter?
This type of vault is prevalently used in Gothic churches.
What is a rib vault?
These ornate brooches were worn by elite members of the medieval world to indicate status.
What are fibulae?
This is what we call those sympathetic Buddhas who opt to remain on earth in order to help others attain enlightenment.
What are Bodhisattvas?
This term for life-sized marble male statuary, usually shown in contrapposto, means "youth."
What is "kouros?"
Pendentives were used to give the illusion of a "floating dome of Heaven" in this important church built by Justinian.
What is Hagia Sophia?
This is the name of the statues carved onto the colonettes or columns found on the portal of a Gothic church.
What are jamb figures?
This term describes the prohibition of figural representation in Muslim art.
What is aniconism?
Siddhartha a.k.a. Gautama a.k.a. Shakyamuni.
Who is the Buddha?
This method of bronze casting involves pouring molten bronze into a mold whose wax has been melted under exposure to high heat.
What is the lost-wax method?
This is the type of pointed arch used in Gothic cathedrals.
What is an ogival arch?
This 16th century Italian architectural historian is credited with the term, "Gothic," which referred to a negative and barbaric view of art made during the Gothic period.
Who is Vasari?
This Hindu female figure typically is associated with fertility. We see her on the torana of the Great Stupa at Sanchi.
What is a yakshi?
This emperor wished for the glory days of the Roman Empire and was coronated on Christmas day 800.
Who is Charlemagne (or Charles the Bald or Charles the Great or Carolus Magnus)?
This part of a classical Greek temple, shaped like a triangle, is typically decorated with ample sculptural work.
What is the pediment?
This 'style' of prayer hall in a mosque contains a forest of columns.
What is a hypostyle hall?
This abbot eradicated the use of walls in radiating chapels in order to open up the spaces inside churches and fill them with stained glass.
Who is Abbot Suger?
This carved horizontal part above the door of an 8th century Mayan temple depicts a scene of bloodletting in which a queen pierces her tongue.
What is a lintel?
We see this four-armed god on a Hindu temple in Deogarh, dreaming of the origins of the universe while his wife, Laxmi, massages his feet.
Who is Vishnu?