Because of their relationship to the wood of the Cross, these were to become a central motif in Christian art.
trees
100
When was San Vitale's apse mosaic created?
A.D. 547
100
The roots of Christianity were in this religion
Judaism
100
Ancestor of the modern book
codex
200
What is a circular barrel-vaulted passage that ran between the central space and the exterior walls of centrally planned churches?
ambulatory
200
Who stands with her arms raised in a gesture that combines prayer and mourning with a visual reference to Jesus's Cross?
Muse
200
Christian mosaics were made by adapting the Roman method of embedding these in wet cement or plaster.
tesserae
200
Greek for Thanksgiving.
Eucharist
200
This was among the earliest codices to illustrate scenes from the Bible.
Vienna Genesis
300
The dome of the Hagia Sophia rests on four of these triangular segments with concave sides.
pendentives
300
What is the sarcophagus made out of?
marble
300
In this mosaic, Theodora stands in an abbreviated apse with her court ladies on the right and two churchmen on the left.
Court of Theodora
300
This group was responsible for spreading Jesus' teachings
apostles
300
What is the term for the underground cemeteries in which Christians hid or performed funerary rites?
catacombs
400
The exterior of this building is faced with brick, unbroken except by buttresses and windows.
San Vitale
400
The opposition of this on the right of the sarcophagus and Jonah and the whale on the left demonstrates what was to become a traditional pairing of left and right.
Baptism
400
The intention of this mosaic was clearly to depict Justinian as Christ's representative on earth and to show him as a worthy successor to Constantine.
Court of Justinian
400
Christians developed this method of historical revision
typology
400
On average, how long was the rotulus in length when it was unrolled?
30 to 33 feet
500
What is the name for the four tall slender towers that were added to the Hagia Sophia when the Turks captured Constantinople in 1453?
minarets
500
Christians continued to decorate their sarcophagi with these, as the Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans had done.
relief sculptures
500
This deeis mosaic shows Christ flanked by the Virgin and John the Baptist
Christ
500
Much of Early Christian imagery is symbolic in nature and often takes the form of pictorial puzzles knows as what?
Rebuses
500
A writing surface prepared from the skin of a sheep or goat.