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28 Cards in this Set
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At which church in France can we pinpoint the transition to the new Gothic style? |
St. Denis |
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In the Gothic church of St. Denis, walls have been replaced by screens of ___. |
Glass |
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Who was the man who conceived the new Gothic style at St. Denis? |
Abbot Suger |
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Abbot Suger believed that light flooding through stained glass windows became ___. |
Divine Light |
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Which cathedral has more of its original glass than any other medieval cathedral? |
Chartres |
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In a Gothic cathedral, the flying buttressed transfer the weight away from the ___. |
Walls |
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The floor plan of most churches is in the shape of the ___. |
Cross |
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The wise ambulatory and ___ in a church provide for easy movement, even during crowded services. |
Side aisles |
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The Royal Abbey Church of St. Denis is France is where the ____ style began. |
Gothic |
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To Abbot Suger, God's presence meant light, which comes into the church through the ____. |
Stained glass windows |
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Flying buttresses bear much of the weight of the vaulting (roof), thus allowing for a wide aisle and a wall of ___. |
Stained glass |
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What attracted people to the cathedral from far away? |
Relics attracted people |
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Most of the prominent cathedrals are dedicated to "Notre Dame", which means ____. |
Our Lady |
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The cult of ___ and the passion for pilgrimage to their shrines were dominant features of medieval culture. |
Saints |
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The four main pilgrimage routes through France ended up at which Spanish church? |
Santiago de Compostela |
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Churches competed for ____ and even stole them from each other. |
Relics |
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To a largely illiterate congregation, ___ were essential to convey the church's message. |
Images |
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During the Middle Ages, what was the most important form of painting in Western art? |
Manuscript Illumintation |
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Fourth century Christians, needing places of worship, took over the long Roman ___, which became the standard form for Christian architecture in the West. |
Basilica |
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Christian architects transformed the Roman basilica by adding a transept, thus making the church into a symbolic ___ shape. |
Cross |
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To deal with hundreds of pilgrims in the church, the medieval architect evolved a corridor, or ___, to solve the "traffic problem" of the medieval pilgrimage. |
Ambulatory |
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The most distinctive element of High Romanesque architecture is the great tunnel or ___ vault. |
Barrel |
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The catacombs are an elaborate maze of tunnels under ___ that contained nearly 5 million bodies. |
Rome |
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Many of the painted scenes in the catacombs deal with resurrection and ____. |
Salvation |
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Nearly all catacombs in Rome depict ___, metaphor for Christ. |
The Good Shepherd |
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Which of the following is a common death and resurrection scene found in catacomb paintings? |
Jonah and the Whale |
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In 313 A.D., who declared Christianity a legal religion in the Roman empire? |
Constantine |
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During the Middle Ages, ____ were stolen from the catacombs in the belief that these "relics" contained magic properties. |
Bones |
