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Terms - Exam 3 Flashcards

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Mosque

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Muslim house of worship

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Minbar

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Stepped pulpit in a mosque; used for sermons

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Qibla

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Direction for prayer (toward Kaaba in Mecca)

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Mihrab

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Arched niche in wall showing the qibla (direction of Mecca); often concave, sometimes flat

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Muqarnas

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3D decorations like honeycomb; often individual cells or small arches

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Minaret

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Tower at a mosque for calling Muslims to prayer

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Polychrome

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Decorated in various colors; sometimes used for buildings decorated with different colored bricks (one to add accents, stripes…)

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Muhaqqaq

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Type of Arabic script that looks handwritten?

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Medieval

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After Byzantine, Islamic; before Ottonian, Romanesque, Gothic

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Animal Style

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Use of animal motifs

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Interlacing

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Interwoven decoration; common in Medieval art

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Cloisonne

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Usually metal backround; has raised ridges to form cells; filled with colored enamel

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Manuscript Illumination

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Text is supplemented with decorations and smaller illustration

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Monogram page

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Page with a monogram; Chi-rho-iota from Book of Kells

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Charlemagne

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Medieval / Carolingian Renaissance / pre-Romanesque; was granted divine legitimacy

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Ottonian

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After Carolingian; before Romanesque

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Romanesque

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After Ottonian; before Gothic

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Pilgrimage

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Journey (especially a long one) to a sacred place for religious devotion; often to see relics in churches in Romanesque-ish era

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Radiating Chapels

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Small, semi-circular chapels arranged around apse of church; makes those on pilgrimages less distracting for congregants

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Tympanum

plural tympana

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Half-round panel that fills space between lintel and arch over Romanesque or Gothic doorway

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Blind arcade

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Series of arches joined as a frieze with no openings; applied to surface of wall as decoration; exposes masonry

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Facade

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The front of a building

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Gothic

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After Romanesque; before High Gothic and Renaissance; style of Medieval art

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Pointed Arches

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Arch with pointed apex; emphasize height by drawing eye upward; very common in Gothic architecture

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Flying buttresses

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External (entire column not connected to wall), arched support for a wall; allowed church builders to install tall, thin walls that had stained glass

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Lancets

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Tall, narrow window with pointed arch at top; common in Gothic architecture

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Rib vaulting

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Like a pointed groin vault; intersection of 2 - 3 barrel vaults; provides support for wider expanses

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Rose Window

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Circular window; divided into segments with mullions and tracery; often stained glass on facade; common in Gothic architecture

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Tracery

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Stonework supporting glass in windows; common in Gothic architecture

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Tripartite

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Composed of or split into three parts; 3 layers of a church; manifestation of the Holy Trinity

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Westwerk

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West-facing entrance section of Carolingian, Ottonian, Romanesque church

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Gable

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Triangular part of wall between edges of roof; commonly used in Gothic architecture

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Portal

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A large doorway, entrance, or gate

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Pinnacle

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Ornament that caps a turret, buttress, etc.; commonly used in Gothic architecture

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Jamb Figures

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Statues carved on jambs of doorways or windows; (jamb - part of portal); usually human; Ex. Chartres Cathedral

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Rayonnant Style

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Architects transitioned from building great sizes to incorporating more decorations (pinnacles, moldings, window tracery); Gothic/High Gothic

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Breviary

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Book containing prayers, lessons, etc. for priests; Catholicism

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Serpentine

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Curved like a snake; similar to contrapposto but more weightless

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Perpendicular Gothic

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Dominating vertical lines/expanse; emphasize height; also expands horizontally

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Renaissance

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After Gothic

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Maniera Greca

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Use of Greek mannerisms in art; use of head tilt, contrapposto, etc.; proto-Renaissance

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