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31 Cards in this Set
- Front
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Armature
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skeletal framework
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Rose window
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a circular stained-glass window
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Attached figures
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figures in the Gothic are attached to the columns as opposed to the classical figures which replaced the columns
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Triforium
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the band of arcades below the clerestory
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Lancets
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tall, narrow windows ending in pointed arches
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Oculi
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small round windows
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Flying buttresses
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exterior arches that spring from the lower roofs over the aisles and ambulatory
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Pinnacle
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a sharply pointed arnament capping the piers or flying buttresses
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Vaulting web
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the masonry blocks that fill the area between the ribs of a groin vault
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Diagonal rib
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in plan, one of the ribs that form the X of a groin vault
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Transverse rib
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a rib that crosses the nave or aisle at a 90 degree angle
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Springing
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the lowest stone of an arch’ in Gothic Vaulting. The lowest stone of a diagonal or transverse rib
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Clerestory
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the windows below the vaults that form the nave elevation’s uppermost level.
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Stained glass
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colored glass that usually depicts an image
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Tracery
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ornamental stone work
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Fleurs-de-lis
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three-petaled iris flower
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Flashing
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fusing one layer of colored glass to another
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Glaziers
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glass-workers
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Lead
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to join fragments of glass by strips of lead called “cames”
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Plate tracery
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Bar tracery
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Rayonnant
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radiant style
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Mullions
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vertical stone bars
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Flamboyant style
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flamelike appearance
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Ramparts
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thick defensive wall circuits
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Battlements
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low parapets
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Crenellations
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composed of alternation solid merlons and open crenels
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Keep
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a secure tower that could serve as a place of last refuge
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Breviary
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book of selected prayers and psalms
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Fan vault
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vaulting in Chapel of Henry, spider web vaulting
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Mappamundi
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cloth of the world
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