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22 Cards in this Set
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Radiating chapels
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semicircular chapels opening toward the ambulatory
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Transverse arches
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single crossing arch
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Compound Piers
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piers with columns or pilasters attached to their rectangular cores
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Springing
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lowest stone of an arch
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Speyer
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seat of a local bishop
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Campaniles
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bell towers
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Ribs
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supporting arches
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____partite vault
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ribs that divide the large square-vault compartments into ____sections
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Quadrant arches
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arches whose curve extends for one quarter of a circles circumference
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Baptistery
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where infants and converts were initiated into the Christian community
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Incrustation
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wall decoration consisting of bright panels of different colors, as in the Pantheon’s interior
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Diaphragm arches
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arches that divide the nave into three equal compartments
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Cloister
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connotes being shut away from the world
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Vita contemplative
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seclusion of the spiritual life
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Historiated
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ornamented with figures
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Pax Vobis
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“peace be unto you”
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Tympanum
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semicircular space that is formed within an arch on a portal
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Voussoirs
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the wedge-shaped blocks that together form the archivolts of the arch faming the tympanum
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Lintel
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the horizontal beam above the doorway
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Trumeau
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the center post supporting the lintel in the middle of the doorway
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Jambs
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the side posts of the doorways
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Hall church
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a church where the aisles are approximately the same height as the nave
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