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A construction shaped like a triangle that transitions the space between flat walls and the base of a round dome
What is a pendentive?
100
This is a central niche in a mosque, which indicates the direction to Mecca.
What is a mihrab?
100
Enamelwork in which colored areas are separated by thin bands of metal, usually gold or bronze
What is Cloissonne?
100
A passageway that winds around an apse, usually with chapels radiating from it.
What is an ambulatory?
100
Invented at the end of the Romanesque period, and seen in Durham Cathedral, this is in a vault in which diagonal arches form riblike patterns. These arches partially support a roof, in some cases forming a weblike design.
What is a rib vault?
200
Among the many that decorate San Vitale, these two mosaics stand serve to proclaim the triumph of Justinian and of the Orthodox faith.
What are Justinian and Attendants, ca. 547, mosaic from San Vitale, Ravenna and Theodora and Attendans, ca. 547, mosaic from San Vitale, Ravenna?
200
This shrine stands on the sacred rock where Adam was buried, Abraham nearly sacrificed Isaac, and Muhammed ascended to heaven.
What is Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem, ca. 687-692?
200
The main artistic expression of this type of art from the British Isles is illuminated manuscripts.
What is Hiberno-Saxon Art?
200
To enter St. Lazare, people walk through the door on the right below this scene of the condemned and exit out the door on the left where the saved are depicted.
What is Gislebetrus, Last Judgement, 1120-1135, marble, St. Lazare, Autun, France?
200
An innovation of Gothic architecture, this stone arch and its pier support a roof from a pillar outside the building, stabilizing a building and protecting it from wind sheer.
What is a flying buttress?
300
This mosaic of Christ as a stern and severe being is placed on the interior the dome of a church. It signifies that Christ sees and understand all that he looks down upon from heaven.
What is Pantocrator?
300
This hypostyle hall features horseshoe-shaped arches with alternating striped stonework. It is located in the capital of the Spanish Umayyads.
What is the Great Mosque at Cordoba, Spain, ca. 8th to 10th centuries?
300
This type of art, the art of Charlemagne and his times, is considered the first revival of classical art beyond the ancient world.
What is Carolingian Art?
300
This embroidery tells the story of William's conquest of England at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
What is Bayeux Tapestry, 1070-1080, embroidery, wool on linen, Bayeux?
300
This is the first Gothic building. It's patron, Abbot Suger, wanted light filtered by stained glass to saturate the isine of the building. This light, termed lux nova, represented divine light or God's presence in the church.
What is Saint-Denis, 1140-1144, Saint-Denis, France?
400
This church in modern-day Istanbul was highly innovative for its pendentive and its marriage of the two Early Christian ground plan forms: the centrally planned apse and the longer basilica with a nave facing the altar.
What is Hagia Sophia, Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey, 532-537?
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This mosque, located in Turkey, was inspired by Hagia Sophia, but is recognizable by its extremely thin, soaring minarets. Its open, airy interior contrasts with conventional mosques and was constructed so that the mihrab could be seen from almost any spot in the mosque.
What is Sinan, Mosque of Selim II, ca. 1568-1575, Edirne, Turkey?
400
Perhaps Charlemagne or Charles the Bald, this statue of a figure on a horse stresses that figure's authority and is influenced by the Roman equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius.
What is Equestrian Statue of a Carolingian Ruler, ca. ninth century, bronze?
400
In this reliquary, Mary sits as the Throne of Wisdom, holding Jesus in her head. Jesus's own wisdom is conveyed through his adult head on a small person's body.
What is Morgan Madonna, 1150-1200, wood, Metropolitan Museum of Art?
400
This Gothic Cathedral features two transepts and a long horizontal emphasis down the nave.
What is Salisbury Cathedral, begun 1220, Salisbury, England.
500
In the Middle Byzantine period, the three-part triptych replaced the earlier diptych as the standard format for ivory panels. This triptych shows Christ enthroned, surrounded by individualized but similarly sized and dress and symmetrically arranged saints.
What is the Harbaville Triptych, ca. 950, ivory?
500
This type of pattern, which features polygonal shapes with no gaps, decorated nearly everything from great monuments to simple earthenware plates.
What is a tessellation?
500
This wooden sculpture is the first of Jesus Christ hanging from a cross and shows great emotional suffering. It was commissioned by Archbishop Gero for the cathedral in Cologne, Germany.
What is Gero Crucifix, 970, wood, Cologne Cathedral?
500
This church features a barrel-vaulted interior with demarcated ribs and corresponding buttresses on the exterior. This church is also recognizable for its square schematism (i.e, a church plan in which the crossing square is used as a module for all parts of the design- each nave bay is 1/2 of the central square, each side aisle is 1/4 of the central square.
What is Saint-Sernin, ca. 1070-1120, Toulouse, France?
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These jamb sculptures depict kings and queens fro the Old Testament. The heads of the figures are lined up in a row but their feet are of different lengths. Though they stand in front of the wall, rather than flat up against it as in Romanesque, they are still upright and rigid.
What are the Royal Portals, 1145-1155, Cathedral, Chartres, France?