ARH 100: STUDY QUESTIONS
Examination 2
Important dates to know: Middle Ages in Europe, year Constantine professes to be a Christian, the year of the Edict of
Milan, year Christianity becomes the official state religion of Rome, years of the dark ages, etc.
1.___________________the first Christian emperor. 2.___________________the first bishop of Rome.
3.___________________material that Christian scrolls, bible, manuscripts, prayer books were written on.
4.___________________term used for a series of rites and services by Christians.
5.___________________term used for the body of Jewish literature and holy scriptures.
6.___________________term used for the Islamic scriptures.
7.List four mediums of painting used by Early Christians and Byzantines.
8.___________________the transverse hall or enclosure at the end of the nave in Christian churches.
9.___________________name of the large Early Christian church.
10__________________term for a circular aisle.
11__________________medium that uses bees wax as its vehicle.
12__________________a halo that surrounds the body of Christ or very important figure.
13__________________a special term used in Orthodox Christianity to refer to a painting of a religious subject.
14__________________curving triangular segments that provide the transition from the square plan of the
supporting piers to the circular base of a dome.
15__________________a complex pattern composed of a single line that intertwines and overlaps to completely
fill the available space.
16__________________the workshop in a monastery where manuscripts are written and decorated.
17__________________the religious leader and founder of Islam.
18__________________a place of worship in the Islamic religion.
19__________________the arch or niche in the qibla wall that indicates the direction of Mecca, to which
Muslims
turn in prayer.
20__________________the tower in the Islamic religious complex that is tall and slender from which the Muslim
faithful are called to prayer five times a day.
21__________________the religious founder of Buddhism.
22__________________an early religious structure that is hemispherical that serves as a Buddhist shrine.
23__________________religious community of monks. List important rooms and buildings.
24__________________a structure that uses a single or two towers to form an entrance façade to a Christian church.
25__________________the inventor (architect) of this monumental towered entrance.
26__________________the year Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
27__________________new church plan in western Europe that is in the shape of a Latin cross and served religious
pilgrims.
28__________________term for one module of the nave.
29__________________the exterior, monumental arched or vaulted entrance where Romanesque and Gothic sculpture
is carved.
30__________________first artist in France to sign his name.
31__________________the sub-periods of the Gothic period of Europe.
32__________________the abbot who was responsible for the first Gothic construction.
33__________________medium that uses brilliant colors of glass in windows.
34__________________medium that uses egg yolk as its vehicle.
35__________________two components that make up a flying buttress system.
36__________________the second story openings in a Romanesque or Gothic church.
37 List the three stories of a Gothic nave elevation.
38 List the two stories of an Early Christian nave elevation.
39 List the two stories of a Romanesque Church.
40 List two synonyms for cluster pier.
41__________________a decorative thin column.
42__________________the white ground upon which a tempera painting is painted on.
43__________________the half-column molding that extends from the floor to the ribs in a Gothic nave.
44__________________arches upon which the webbing of vaults are placed.
45List four stylistic characteristics of Early Christian figures in painting and sculpture.
46List four stylistic characteristics of Byzantine figures in painting.
47List four stylistic characteristics of Romanesque figures in painting and sculpture.
48List four stylistic characteristics of Gothic figures in painting and sculpture.