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46 Cards in this Set
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Latin Cross Plan |
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Nave |
the central part of a church building, intended to accommodate most of the congregation. In traditional Western churches it is rectangular, separated from the chancel by a step or rail, and from adjacent aisles by pillars. |
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Transept |
A transept (with two semitransepts) is a transverse section, of any building, which lies across the main body of the building |
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Choir |
an organized group of singers, typically one that takes part in church services or performs regularly in public. |
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Crossing |
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Ambulatory |
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Chevet |
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Radiating Chapels |
Small semicircular chapels located in the apse |
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Cloister |
A cloister (from Latin claustrum, "enclosure") is a covered walk, open gallery, or open arcade running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle or garth |
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Bay |
A major vertical division of a large,interior wall. There are usually more than one, such as a nave that is dividedinto seven bays |
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Banded Barrel Vault |
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Quadrant Vault |
A vault that is only a quarter of a circle (hence quadrant) |
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Squinch |
A squinch in architecture is a construction filling in the upper angles of a square room so as to form a base to receive an octagonal or spherical dome. Another solution of this structural problem was provided by the pendentive. |
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Nave Arcade |
An arcade is a succession of arches, each counter-thrusting the next, supported by columns, piers, or a covered walkway enclosed by a line of such arches on one or both sides. |
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Gallery |
Gallery, in architecture, any covered passage that is open at one side |
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Clerestory |
a clerestory is a high section of wall that contains windows above eye level |
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Saint-Sernin |
Toulouse, France 1080 AD |
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Laon Cathedral |
Laon, France 1155-1205 AD Early Gothic |
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Chartres Cathedral |
Chartres, France 1194-1235 High Gothic |
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Rib Vault |
A ribbed vault is an arched form created by the intersection of two or three barrel vaults used to support the weight of walls or a ceiling or roof. |
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Compound Pier |
The piers that hold up the arches in a gothic cathedral |
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Buttress, Flying Buttress |
A flying buttress is a specific form of buttressing most strongly associated with Gothic church architecture. The purpose of any buttress is to resist the lateral forces pushing a wall outwards |
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Rose Window |
Large central window on the facade of a gothic cathedral |
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Gargoyle |
a grotesque carved human or animal face or figure projecting from the gutter of a building, typically acting as a spout to carry water clear of a wall. |
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Cathedral |
The church where the bishop takes up residence |
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Rib, Web |
The parts of a rib vault, ribs are the rounded sections that create a sort of weblike structure, the webs are the solid wall that fills the space between the ribs |
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Triforium |
The level in the elevation of a cathedral that holds three archways in each bay |
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Tracery |
Metal used to form the outlines in stained glass windows |
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Pinnacle |
The caps of the towers on a gothic cathedral |
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Miraculous Oxen |
Ornamental oxen on the towers of the the Laon Cathedral that symbolize the oxen used in the transportation of materials for the construction of the cathedral |
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Chartres Cathedral does not possess this level? |
Gallery |
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Reason for different towers on Chartres Cathedral |
Fire burned down the first and was rebuilt in Late Gothic style |
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Passion Window |
Located in the Chartres Cathedral, mostly original and intact, depicts the passion of the Christ |
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Sistine Chapel |
Rome, Italy Ceiling Frescoes by Michelangelo 1508-1512 Restore 1980-1994 |
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Filippo Brunelleschi |
1377-1446 |
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Competition Panel for the Bronze Doors of the Florence Baptistery |
1401-1402 Depicts the Sacrifice of Isaac Lost to Ghiberti |
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Invention of Linear Perspective |
After going to Rome and studying the architecture there, formed a method of depicting 3D space |
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Competition for the Dome of Florence Cathedral (Duomo) |
Florence, Italy 1418 Dome Built 1420-1436 |
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San Lorenzo |
Florence, Italy 1421 Patrons: The Medici Family |
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Florence Cathedral (Duomo) |
Florence, Italy 1296 |
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Leon Battista Alberti |
1404-1472 |
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Treatise: De re Aedificatoria |
(On the Art of Building) written c. 1451 |
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Sant' Andrea |
Mantua, Italy 1470-1472 |
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Rucellai Palace |
Florence, Italy c. 1455 |
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Rustication |
In classical architecture rustication is an architectural feature that contrasts in texture with the smoothly finished, squared-block masonry surfaces called ashlar |
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Piano Nobile |
(Noble Plane) The floor where the "Nobility" lived |
