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Byzantine Art
Islamic Art
Early Medieval
Romanesque
Gothic
100
Mater Theotokos translates as ______.
What is Mary Mother of God?
100
Islamic religious art can be described as ______ since it does not employ human figures.
What is aniconic?
100
An example of this art form includes the Lindisfarne Gospels.
What is manuscript illumination?
100
A groin vault is composed of this architectural interaction.
What is the intersection of two barrel vaults?
100
In the Gothic period, this element symbolizes the presence of God within the cathedral.
What is light?
200
Pantocrator translates as ______.
What is Ruler of All/Creator of the World?
200
This term is used to describe a hall of columns
What is hypostyle?
200
The Viking ship found here contained looted jewelry and weaving equipment.
What is Oseberg?
200
These objects drew people from all over Europe to participate in religious pilgrimages.
What are relics?
200
The Gothic style began in this geographic region.
What is Ile de France?
300
In the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom) at Constantinople, ca. 530 to 550 CE, the dome represents _____ and the square space underneath it represents ______.
What is heaven; earth?
300
In the muslim mosque the ____ wall points toward Mecca and is distinguished by the ____, or niche.
What is quibla; mihrab?
300
Stored in the cavity left by a ceremonial boat, the burial site at ________ is one of the most important archaeological sites in Britain.
What is Sutton Hoo?
300
In Romanesque architecture, the most important sculpture is found on this architectural element.
What is the tympanum?
300
Which of the following would you not find in a gothic cathedral? 1.) Pointed Arches, 2.) Flying buttresses, 3.) Triforium, or 4.) Gallery?
What is the gallery?
400
The 1st Golden Age ends with the outbreak of _______ shortly after _______ (year #).
What is iconoclasm; 700 CE?
400
In the year ___, Constantinople was conquered by _______.
What is 1453; Ottoman Turks?
400
This is the name of the jewelry making technique used by barbarian tribes.
What is cloisonne?
400
Outside of Rome and Jerusalem, this church is THE major pilgrimage church.
What is Santiago de Compostela?
400
From ca. 1230 onwards, both painters and sculptors tried to show more _____________ in their figures of humans and animals.
What is realism?
500
This church was found in the city in Ravenna and shows the famous mosaics of Justinian and Theodora that acted as a surrogate presence since the emperor and empress never actually went to Ravenna.
What is San Vitale?
500
The dome seen here, from the Great or Friday Mosque at Cordoba Spain, 770s-990s, shows a dome sitting upon ______ springing from ____ that make an octagon. This dome is the most sophisticated engineering form in Western Europe in the 900s.
What are arches; squinches?
500
In the Bayeux Tapestry, we see the extended narrative of how __________ was victorious over the _________.
What is William of Normandy; English 1066?
500
_____________________________is the sculpted group frequently seen in the tympanums over the main entrances to a Romanesque Church, ca. 1100-1150.
What is Christ in Majesty with the Four Evangelist Symbols (lion, eagle, ox, and man) and the Four and Twenty Elders?
500
_________hired the stone masons who actually invented the Gothic style (ca. 1135 - 45) at the Royal Abbey Church at __________.
What is Abbot Suger; St. -Denis?