Chapter 2 Flashcards
(28 cards)
Basket Capital
A column capital with a finely carved marble exterior, said to resemble a basket.
Canon Tables
Charts developed by the theologian Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. 260–339) that indicate in which Christian Gospels specific events occur and overlap.
Chalice
A vessel that holds the eucharistic wine during a Christian service.
Chlamys
A robe usually fastened over the right shoulder.
Codex
A manuscript in the form of a book.
Colophon
An inscription located at the end of a chapter or a book that offers information about the production of a manuscript.
Dedication Scene
An image in which a work of art or a building is offered to Christ or a saint by the church’s earthly representatives.
Domed Basilica
A church that has both the longitudinal focus of a basilica and a centralized dome.
Dome on Pendentives
An architectural system that provides a transition from a square space defined by four piers to a circular dome.
Eulogia
An object that has been blessed.
Exedrae
A semicircular projection from the wall of a building.
Fibula
A clasp or brooch often used to keep a garment such as a chlamys in place.
Folio
An entire page, both the back and front, of a manuscript.
Iconostasis
A type of screen made up of images, or icons, that separates the apse from the sanctuary in a Byzantine or Greek Orthodox church.
Incarnation
In Christian belief, the idea that God became human through the birth of Christ.
Mandorla
An almond-shaped frame, often used in medieval art to surround images of the resurrected Christ.
Monophysitism
The belief that Christ, though human in body for a brief time, was of one divine nature in spirit and mind.
Parchment
The prepared skins of animals used to make the pages of a manuscript.
Paten
A dish that holds the bread of the eucharist for a Christian service.
Pendentives
An architectural term that refers to the triangular spaces filled with masonry that are located between the arches that support a dome.
Pyx
A liturgical container that held the consecrated bread of the eucharist.
Recto
The right side (or front side) of a folio in a manuscript.
Scrolls
An ancient form of the book consisting of text written on a long piece of papyrus (or other writing surface) and bound around two cylinders.
Septuagint
The Greek translation of Hebrew Scriptures made in Egypt in the third century BCE, legendarily by 72 scholars who labored in Alexandria for 72 days, at the request of Pharaoh Ptolemy II (285–246 BCE). The Septuagint consists of translations made between the third and first centuries BCE.
