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33 Cards in this Set
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Ambo |
(in an early Christian church) an oblong pulpit with steps at each end. |
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Apse |
a large semicircular or polygonal recess in a church arched or with domed roof and typically at the church's eastern end. |
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Atrium |
an open roofed entrance hall of central court in an ancient roman house. |
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Baroque |
denoting style of European architecture music, art of 17th and 18th centuries. |
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Basilica |
a large oblong hall or building with double coronades and semicircular apse. used in ancient Rome as a law court or public assemblies. |
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Bema |
the altar part or sanctuary in ancient or orthadox churches. |
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Buttress |
a structure or stone or brick built against a wall to strengthen or support it. |
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Byzantine |
relating to byzantium, the byzantine Empire, or eastern orthadox of a church. |
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Capital |
Crowning feature of a pillar |
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Chapels |
A small building or room used for Christian worship in a school, prison, hospital, or large private house. |
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Choir |
An organized group of singers, especially one that takes part in church services or performs in public. |
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Clerestory Windows |
a window with no crosspiece dividing the light |
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Fresco |
a painting done rapidly in watercolour on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling, so that the colours penetrate the plaster and become fixed as it dries |
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Column |
an upright pillar, typically cylindrical, supporting an arch, entablature, or other structure or standing alone as a monument |
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Colonnade |
a row of evenly spaced columns supporting a roof, an entablature, or arches |
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Cupola |
A rounded dome forming or adorning a roof or ceiling |
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fan vault |
A fan vault is a form of vault used in the Gothic style, in which the ribs are all of the same curve and spaced equidistantly, in a manner resembling a fan |
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gothic |
the style of architecture prevalent in western Europe in the 12th–16th centuries characterized by pointed arches, rib vaults, and flying buttresses, together with large windows and elaborate tracery. English Gothic architecture is divided into Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular. |
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groin |
curved arch created by two intersections of a vault |
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keystone |
a central stone at the summit of an arch, locking the whole together |
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lancet window |
a slender pointed arched window. |
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loggia |
a gallery or room with one or more open sides, especially one that forms part of a house and has one side open to the garden |
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mosaic |
a picture or pattern produced by arranging together small pieces of stone, tile, glass, etc |
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narthex |
an antechamber, porch, or distinct area at the western entrance of some early Christian churches, separated off by a railing |
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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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portico |
a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns at regular intervals, typically attached as a porch to a building |
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renaissance |
the revival of European art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries |
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rib |
a long raised piece of strengthening or supporting material, in particular |
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rococo |
denoting furniture or architecture characterized by an elaborately ornamental late baroque style of decoration prevalent in 18th-century continental Europe, with asymmetrical patterns involving motifs and scrollwork |
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romanesque |
relating to a style of architecture which prevailed in Europe |
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rose window |
a circular window with mullions or tracery radiating in a form suggestive of a rose |
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transept |
(in a cross-shaped church) either of the two parts forming the arms of the cross shape, projecting at right angles from the nave |
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vault |
a type of arch that supports a roof or ceiling, especially in a church or public building, or a ceiling or roof supported by several of these arches |
