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Flashcards by Emily Crevoiserat, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Emily Crevoiserat
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| iconology | greek, "the writing of images." The term refers both to the content, or subject, of an artwork and to the study of content in art. It also includes the study o the symbolic, often religious, meaning of objects, persons, or events depicted in works of art. |
| lancet | In Gothic architecture, a tall narrow window ending in a pointed arch. |
| trefoil | a triple-lobed arch (multi-lobed arches could be found in Islamic architecture) |
| triforium | In Gothic architecture, the blind arcaded gallery below the clerestory; occasionally the arcades are filled with stained glass |
| squinch | an architectural device used as a transition from a square to a polygonal or circular base for a dome. It may be composed of lintels, corbels, or arches |
| pendentive | a concave, triangular section of a hemisphere, four of which provide the transition from a square area to the circular base of a covering dome. although pendentives appear to be hanging (pendant) from the dome, they in fact support it |
| chi rho | Christogram–the monogram comprising the three initial letters of Christ's name in Greek: chi-rho-iota (Early Medieval Europe, Book of Kells) |
| Pantocrator | Greek "ruler of all." Christ as ruler and judge (Byzantine art: Dome Mosaic in the Church of the Formation, Daphni, Greece) |
| Iconoclasm | The destruction of religious or sacred images. In Byzantium, the period from 726-843 when there was an imperial ban on such images. The destroyers of images were known as iconoclasts. Those who opposed such a ban were known as iconophiles. |
| triptych | a three-paneled painting, ivory plaque, or altarpiece. Also a small, portable shrine with hinged wings used for private devotion. (Byzantium Harbaville Triptych, and Gothic Klosterneuburg Altar Nicholas of Verdun) |
| quatrefoil | a shape or plan in which the parts assume the form of a cloverleaf (this is chapter 14 which we didn't do?) |
| archivolt | The continuous molding framing an arch. In romanesque and gothic architecture, one of the series of concentric bands framing the tympanum. |
| coffered | A sunken panel, often ornamental, in a vault or a ceiling (Rome, Pantheon) |
| facade | Usually the front of a building; also the other sides when they are emphasized architecturally |
| isocephaly | having the heads of the figures in a composition brought to the same level —used especially of a bas-relief |
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