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19 Cards in this Set
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Latin Church |
The Roman Catholic (the western church in rome) |
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Greek church |
The Eastern Orthodox (the Eastern Church in Constantinople) |
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Roman Catholic greek word |
Katholikos meaning general or universal |
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Orthodox meaning |
"True" or "Correct" belief acknowledges the honorary primacy of the patriarch of Constantinople |
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Granted the toleration of Christians which followed the building of churches, by Constantine & Licinius |
EDICT OF MILAN |
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Forbade all representations of human or animal forms in sculptures which affected Byzantine church architecture. |
ICONOCLASTIC MOVEMENT |
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Important characteristic of the byzantine style of ornamentation |
Absence of sculptured figures while colored pictures are generally flat and stylized |
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Prevailing motif of byzantine architecture |
DOME |
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Dome and pendentive are parts of the same sphrere |
SIMPLE DOME |
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A triangular curved overhanging surface to support a circular dome over a square polygonal compartment |
PENDENTIVE |
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Dome constructed separately from the pendentive |
COMPOUND DOME |
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Mentioned and given symbolic meaning several times in the Gospels. It is also a symbol for Jesus. |
FISH (Ikthus) |
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Symbol of peace and unity |
Dove |
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Emblem of immorality and resurrection |
PEACOCK |
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Refer's to Jesus' role as a sacrifice atoning for the sins of man in Christian theology |
LAMB (good shephered) |
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The idea of the vital union of the believers with Christ and among each other is symbolized by the vine and its branches |
GRAPEVINE |
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emblem for eternity |
ENDLESS KNOW |
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Formed by superimposing the first two letters of the word "Christ" in Greek |
CHI RO |
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The art of painting on fresh, moist plaster with pigments dissolved in water |
Fresco painting |
