ART HISTORY TERMS - MIDTERM 2

The portion of a basilica flanking the nave and separated from it by a row of columns or piers

a panel, painted or sculpted, situated above and behind an altar

a table or flat-topped block used as the focus for a religious ritual, esp. for making sacrifices or offerings to a deity.

A series of arches supporting a wall, or set along it.

A curved symmetrical structure spanning an opening and typically supporting the weight of a bridge, roof, or wall above it.

The sunken receptacle next to or part of a church used for baptism.

the the property of being divisible into symmetrical halves on either side of a unique plane.

- A v-shaped, pointed tool used for engraving/incising

The Byzantine Empire; an ornate artistic and architectural style that developed in the Byzantine Empire, generally rich and stylized with (as in religious icons) and the architecture typified by many-domed, highly decorated churches.

Italian, “bell tower.” A bell tower of a church, usually, but not always, freestanding.

A bishop’s church. The word derives from cathedra, referring to the bishop’s chair.

Italian, “light/dark.” In drawing or painting, the treatment and use of light and dark, especially the gradations of light that produce the effect of modeling.

(style of art or architecture) influenced by ancient Greek or Roman forms or principles.

The upper part of the nave, choir, and transepts of a large church, containing a series of windows. It is clear of the roofs of the aisles and admits light to the central parts of the building.

A sunken panel, often ornamental, in a vault or ceiling