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CATHEDRALS
ARCHITECTURAL TERMS
THE CHURCH
SACRED GEOMETRY
POT POURRI
100
The first Gothic church.
What is Abbey at St. Denis?
100
The way architects took the weight bearing away from the walls.
What are flying buttresses?
100
These are in the lowest level of the church hierarchy.
What are monks?
100
This was the main tool for designing cathedrals.
What is the compass?
100
He was responsible for beginning the Gothic Style.
Who was Abbot Suger?
200
Pilgrims came to cathedrals to see these.
What are relics?
200
The center of the main hall ion a cruciform church.
What is the nave?
200
If you are a Bishop, your church would be called this.
What is a cathedral?
200
The same ratios are found in the structure of cathedrals as in these.
What is the human body?
200
The theme of tympanic sculpture on Romanesque churches.
What is The Last Judgment?
300
The height of stained glass, this building is almost all window.
What is Ste. Chapelle?
300
The second story that often holds the arcade is called this.
What is the triforium?
300
If you are a monk who works on manuscripts, you work here.
What is a scriptorium?
300
Hindu chakras coincide with this.
What is the facade of Chartres?
300
Gothic style was called this at the time.
What is Ogival Style?
400
It means formed like a cross.
What is cruciform?
400
Architecture that changes people and is changed by them is called this.
What is liminal architecture?
400
This person is the leader of the Church and God's voice on earth.
What is the Pope?
400
One represents one lunar cycle and the other a calendar year.
What are the Towers of the Sun and the Moon at Chartres?
400
If you end up on the left hand of God, you are heding for this.
What is Eternal Damnation, or Hell?
500
This cathedral stretched stone beyond its limits and collapsed.
What is Beauvais?
500
Chapels around the outside of the apse are called this.
What apsidal chapels?
500
This order was responsible for the art work at Moissac.
What is Cluny?
500
The location of the Virgin Mary churches in France duplicate these.
What are the stars in the constellation Virgo?
500
It could be argued that the development of the figure in Gothic era echoes that of this era.
What is Classical Greece?