A method of casting bronze in which a mould is formed around a wax pattern, which is melted and drained away.
What is low wax casting?
100
The wedge shaped blocks that together form the archivolts of the arch framing typanum.
What is Voussoirs?
100
Medieval associationi of craftsmen or merchants, often having considerable power.
What is guild?
100
A picture or relief representing a religious subject and suspended in a frame behind the person giving the sermon.
What is altar piece?
100
Literature written in the speech of the common people.
What is Vernacular Literature?
200
A religious journey
What is Pilgrimage?
200
Created where the nave and transept intersect, determining the porportions of the building.
What is crossing square?
200
A circular window with tracery radiating in a form suggestive of a rose.
What is rose window?
200
Members of the Roman Catholic church who followed to the teachings and spiritual disciplines of Saint Francis.
What is Franciscan Monks?
200
An outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Stressing the beliefs of the potential value and goodness of human beings.
What is Humanism?
300
A doorway, gate or other entrance usually a large and elaborate one.
What is portal?
300
Holy theft.
What is furta sacra?
300
A tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, typically a church tower.
What is spires?
300
More commonly known after the 15th century as the Dominican Order is a roman catholic religious order founded by the Spanish priest Saint Dominic de Guzman.
What is Dominican Monks?
300
illegal action or practice of lending money at unreasonably high rate of interest.
What is usury?
400
Bible verse that states "For as in Adam all in die, even so in Christ all be made alive."
What is Corinthians?
400
A tall construction above the arms of the cruciform church with opening through which light from outside can shine down to the crossing.
What is lantern tower?
400
A buttress slanting from a separate pier, typically forming an arch with the wall it supports.
What is flying buttresses?
400
Picture or sculpture of the Virgin Mary holding the dead body of Jesus on her lap and arms.
What is Pieta?
400
Visual deception, objects rendering to fine detail to create effect
What is trompe l'oeil?
500
Door was cast as a single piece with the figural sculptures of characters in the new and old testament.
What is Hildensheim Doors?
500
A vault forming a half cylinder
What is barrell vault?
500
Colonnettes
What is a small relatively thin column often used for decoration or to support an arcade?
500
Marks corresponding to those left on Jesus' body by the Crucifixion said to have been impressed by the divine favor on the bodies of Saints like St. Francis.