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49 Cards in this Set
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Repoussé
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hammered relief
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granulation
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tiny metal balls are fused to a metal surface
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Symposium
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An ancient Greek banquet attended solely by men (with female servants and prostitutes)
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tumulus
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Burial mound, made of tufa (limestone)
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charuns
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psychopompous
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revetment
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A wall covering or facing
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pseudoperipteral
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columns are not freestanding all around
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Tholos
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circular arrangement
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Verism
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advanced age, only elders had power
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Basilica
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model for Christian churches, designed to house a large number of people to share ideas or listen, law court
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Amphitheater
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where gladiators battled
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Cavea
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seating area
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Velarium
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canopy, built-in air conditioning
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spandrels
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Triangular space enclosed between two adjacent arches
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narrative frieze
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wound around Column of Trajan, tells the story of Trajan, 150 episodes of conquest of Dacia
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drum
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One of the stacked cylindrical stones that form the shaft of a column.
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coffers
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A sunken panel in a vault or ceiling
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oculus
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eye of the Pantheon, lets in light and rain water, distributes weight back down
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tempera
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A type of painting used by mixing pigment with egg yolk
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tondo, roundel
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A circular painting or relief sculpture
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damnatio memoriae
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political tool
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Synagogue
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place used for meeting and holding religious sessions
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confraternity
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groups of laymen that have a particular goal or mission
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liturgy
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the official ritual of public worship
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pendentives, squinches
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transfers weight from the great dome to piers beneath, instead of walls
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Exarchs
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governors
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cruciform halo
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equal-armed cross inscribed within a prefect circle
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Eucharist
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The partaking of the bread and wine which believers hold to be either Christ himself or symbolic of him.
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paten
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A large shallow bowl or plate for the bread used in the Eucharist.
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mandorla
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almond-shaped aureole of light
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Greek cross
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which is equidistance as far as the arms are concerned
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cloisonné technique
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light stones framing dark red bricks
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Pantokrator
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ruler of all, Christ as last judge
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templon, iconostasis
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low columnar screen separating sanctuary from nave
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martyrium
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A shrine to a Christian martyr (saint)
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Doge
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duke
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Parekklesion
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side chapel
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Cloisonné
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plagues
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scriptoria
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the writing studio of a monastery
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carpet page
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a decorative page resembling a textile
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author portrait
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opening page of a gospel
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modular design
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built around module of crossing
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ambulatory, radiating chapels
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a covered walkway around the apse and choir of a church, chapels for the display of relics that opened directly into the ambulatory
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Sexpartite vault
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vault with six sections
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opus fracigenum
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French work (Gothic)
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flying buttresses
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outer supporting piers that push on the building which reduces lateral thrust
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jamb figure
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figures that also act as columns
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fleur-de-lis
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Queen of Heaven
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International Gothic
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elongated proportions, heavy drapery, serpentine sweeping motions
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