Church Parts
The central aisle in a church.
What is the nave?
Spanish Muslims are known by this name.
What are Moors?
These features were added to churches to house relics for display.
What are radiating chapels?
In the Moralized Bible, the king and queen are compared to these two figures.
Who are Jesus and Mary?
The walls of Arena Chapel are covered in works by Giotto using this technique involving pigment in wet plaster.
What is fresco?
The semicircular protrusion from the East end of a church.
What is the apse?
The mihrab of the Great Mosque at Cordoba is not centered on the qibla wall because of this.
What is that the mosque was expanded in the 10th C. but the mihrab was not relocated?
People would travel throughout western Europe in order to see these remnants of saints for their devotion and healing properties.
What are relics?
The gold leaf backgrounds of the Moralized Bible and the Golden Haggadah reference this artistic style from another concurrent culture.
What is Byzantine?
Form of tracery that was popular during the high and late Gothic periods.
What is bar tracery?
Churches face west for this reason.
What is:
Roman temples faced west; or
Jerusalem is to the east from Europe; or
Sunrise is symbolic of resurrection?
The columns of the Great Mosque at Cordoba are repurposed from the destruction of a Visigoth temple. This tradition of reusing architectural elements is known as this.
What is spolia?
Drawing on Roman architecture, Romanesque churches made use of this building technique, that allowed for a long, open nave and transcept.
What is the barrel vault?
In the Golden Haggadah, the pharaoh looks like this Medieval figure due to the context of its creation.
What is a French king?
Gothic stained glass lancet windows drew inspiration from this artform.
What are illuminated manuscripts?
The semicircular aisle surrounding the apse.
What is the ambulatory?
The Pyxis al-Mughira was created for the son of a caliph in this caliphate which ruled the Iberian Peninsula.
What is the Umayyad Caliphate?
The Bayeaux Tapestry commemorates the Battle of Hastings in 1066 CE and was commissioned by Bishop Odo who was related to this historical figure.
Who is his cousin, William the Conqueror?
While Christus Triumphas or 'Triumphant Christ' shows no suffering, this version of Christ is more human and prone to suffering.
What is Christus Patiens or 'Patient Christ?'
Pointed arches, ribbed vaulting and stained glass were all part of this expression of a new concept of church design developed by Abbot Suger in the building of St. Denis.
What is Lux Nova?
The altar is usually located at this intersection in the church architecture?
What is the crossing?
The fountain in the Court of Lions in the Alhambra is secular based on the depiction of animals and this other factor.
What is that it is a freestanding sculpture?
The tympanum of the Church of Sainte-Foy shows this scene to warn churchgoers of what will happen if they do not follow the teachings of the church.
What is the Last Judgement?
The Röttgen Pieta intended to show the suffering of Mary and Christ to support worshippers in feeling this.
What is a personal connection to God?
The inclusion of double dashed line X's in a church plan indicates the presence of this Gothic feature.
What is a ribbed groin vault?