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Middle Ages |
476 AD-1400 AD including Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic Art periods
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Byzantine Art
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476-1000 AD; art centered around Christ characterized by religious art made by men who dedicated themselves to God
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Romanesque Art
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1000-1150 AD; art copied from Roman ideas
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Gothic Art
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1100-1400 AD; art with brighter colors and more lifelike people in the paintings and the statues
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proportion
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the relation between unequal things; The comparative relation of any one thing to another
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fresco
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painting on fresh plaster with paint
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hue
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the variety of a color or shade
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commissioned
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someone came to the artist and they agreed on a price and what art work would be done
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architecture
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the work of an architect or an artist who designs and then constructs buildings
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nave |
the part of the church where people sit
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diameter |
width of a dome from side to the other passing through the middle
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squinch
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the gap between the dome to the nave wall
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pendentive
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a smooth arch connecting the square nave to the dome |
