common language spoken or understood by people (Latin)
What is vernacular?
100
marks corresponding to those left on Jesus’ body by the Crucifixion
What is stigmata
100
a projecting support of stone or brick built against a wall.
What is a buttress ?
100
an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters
What is humanism
200
A top part or point that tapers upward; a pinnacle.
What is spire?
200
technique in which the object appears to come at the viewer
What is foreshortening?
200
Schools established by churches/cathedrals
What is cathedral schools
200
a circular window with mullions or tracery radiating in a form suggestive of a rose.
What is rose window?
200
the protecting or guiding saint of a person or place.
What is patron saints
300
an ornamental design of four lobes or leaves as used in architecture
What is quatrefoil ?
300
the act of collecting taxes
What is usury?
300
association of people of the same trade or pursuits, formed to protect mutual interests and maintain standards.
What is guilds
300
a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches
What is gothic architecture?
300
a type of perspective used by artists in which the relative size, shape, and position of objects are determined by drawn or imagined lines converging at a point on the horizon.
What is linear perspective
400
a pointed arch having cusps ( pointed end where curves meet) in the intrados on either side of the apex
What is trefoil arch?
400
technique used to make object appear 3D
What is trompe l'oeil
400
a picture or sculpture of the Virgin Mary holding the dead body of Jesus Christ on her lap or in her arms.
What is pieta?
400
an acutely pointed Gothic arch, like a lance
What is lancets
400
a technique of rendering depth or distance in painting by modifying the tone or hue and distinctness of objects perceived as receding from the picture plane,
What is atmospheric perspective?
500
A small, relatively thin column, often used for decoration or to support an arcade.
*located around a larger column
What is colonnettes
500
method in painting in gray to imitate sculptures
What is grisaille?
500
Grammar
Rhetoric
Logic
Arithmetic
Geometry
Music
Astronomy
What is seven liberal arts
500
A gallery of arches above the side-aisle vaulting in the nave of a church.
What is triforium gallery?
500
the converging lines that meet at the vanishing point in the system of linear perspective