Vocabulary
Byzantine
Art
Early
Medieval
Art
Early
Christian
Art
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small pieces
of glass or
tile
What are
tesserae?
Portable Byzantine
paintings of religious
imagery often on
golden backgrounds
What are
icons?
Architectural
achievement in creating
large domes like seen at
the Hagia Sophia
What is a
pendentive?
The long, main section of
a basilica plan church
What is
a nave?
The symbol used to
represent the
transcendence of time
and/or space seen
surrounding Christ in
art of the Middle Ages.
What is a
mandorla?
The Byzantine
style of art is
associated with this
half of the Roman
Empire
What is the
Eastern
Roman
Empire?
The interior of
Byzantine churches
were decorated with
these
What are
mosaics?
The breaking/destroying
of artwork by its own
culture
What is
iconoclasm?
This emperor’s reign
was called the Golden
Age of Byzantine culture
and art
Who is
Justinian?
This Byzantine
church holds the
famous Justinian
and Attendants
What is the San
Vitale in Ravenna,
Italy?
Tribes from this
area aided the
breakdown of the
Western Roman
Empire
What is
Northern
Europe?
The transient lifestyle
of the early Christians
caused much of the
artwork of the early
Medieval period to be
this
What is small
and moveable?
New imagery/iconography
brought to Medieval Art
from pagan tribes.
What is animal
imagery and
interlacing line
work?
The beliefs that formed
the culture of western
Europe during the
early Middle Ages
What were Roman,
early Christian
and pagan beliefs?
This book contains
one of the most
famous cross carpet
pages.
What is the
Lindisfarne
Gospel?
The structures the
first Early Christian
churches were based
on.
What are Roman
basilicas or
political
buildings?
The way Christ is
shown in Early
Christian Art
What is Christ as
a young
shepherd/teacher?
This later in life
convert to
Christianity had a
sarcophagus made for
him with biblical
reliefs of the Old and
New Testament
Who was
Junius Bassus?
Two characteristics
common to Early
Christian Art.
What are symbolism
and figures with
stubby proportions?
The apse mosaic
inside the
mausoleum of
Galla Placidia
What is Christ
as the Good
Shepherd?
This late Roman
emperor's mausoleum
influenced the design
of early Christian
mausoleums and
central plan churches.
Who is
Diocletian?
The location of the
Ottonian column based on
the Column of Trajan.
What is St.
Michael’s?
The first vaulted
structure of the
middle ages north of
the Alps.
What is the
Palace Chapel
of
Charlemagne?
These figures, seen at the
bottom of Theadora’s
garment in
her mosaic serve to
associate Justinian’s
rule with Christ.
Who were the
Three Wise
Men?
An example of the
revival of monumental
sculpture during the
Middle Ages.
6 foot painted wood
Crucifix for the Cologne
Cathedral?