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22 Cards in this Set
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Pendentives |
-a dome rest on a second larger dome -made it possible to set a round dome over a square one |
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Mandorla |
almond shaped aureole of light
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Paten |
large shallow bowl or plate for the Eucharist bread |
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Chi-rho-iota |
monogram for Christ |
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Iconoclasm |
-the destruction of images used in religious worship -the end of the first Byzantine Art period |
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Theotokos |
-"she who bore God" |
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Minarets |
Modifications on the preexisting Roman square towers |
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Qibla |
the direction (towards Mecca) Muslims face while praying |
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Imam |
leader of collective worship |
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Mihrab |
a semicircular niche usually set into the qibla wall. |
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Calligraphy |
ornamental writing |
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Kufic Script |
angular writing with the uprights forming almost right angles with the baseline |
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Cloisonne |
a cross between mosaic and stained glass |
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Vellum |
paper made from calfskin |
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Radiating chapels |
three semicircular chapel opening into the ambulatory that surrounds the choir |
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Barrel Vault |
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Groin vaults |
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Compound Piers |
piers with columns or pila |
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Historiated capitals |
capitals on columns ornamented with figures |
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Tympanum |
the prominent semicircular lunette above the doorway proper |
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Jambs |
the side posts of the doorway |
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Trumeau |
the center post supporting the lintel in the middle of the doorway |
