Medieval Europe Study online at quizlet.com/_2pf0rl 1. Aisles 4. Axial Plan spaces for walking between row of seats architecture style that leads people into more sacred areas as they continue into a structure. 2. Ambulatory 5. Baldacchino a place for walking, especially an aisle around the apse or a cloister in a church or monastery. 3. Apse a canopy placed over a throne or an altar, sometimes resting on columns 6. Basilicas A recess, usually semicircular, in the wall of a building, commonly found at the east end of a church. early churches that were rectangular-shaped, modeled after Roman buildings for public assembly 7. Caesaropapism 10. Central Plan Church a church focused around a central on a central point, usually utilizing a square or octagonal plan Concept relating to the mixing of political 11. Chalice and religious authority, as with the Roman emperors, that was central to the church versus state controversy in medieval Europe. 8. Catacomb underground burial place goblet; consecrated cup 9. Cathedral 12. Classicism A large Christian church deriving from the orderly qualities of ancient Greek and Roman culture; implies formality, objectivity, simplicity and restraint 13. Clerestory 17. Cornice part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light 14. Cloisonne projecting molding on building (usually above columns or pillars) 18. Cruciform an enamel technique in which metal wire or strips are affixed to the surface to form the design; the resulting areas are filled with enamel (colored glass) 15. Codex cross shaped 19. Crypt an unbound manuscript of some ancient classic (as distinguished from a scroll) 16. Continuous an underground room or vault beneath a church, Narrative used as a chapel or burial place. 20. Diocese Narrative that presents different events in time within the same work of art a district under the pastoral care of a bishop in the Christian Church. 21. Diptych 25. Genesis beginning; origin 26. Greek A two-paneled painting or altarpiece. Cross Plan 22. Doge The official ruler chosen from merchant nobles in Venice A centralize plan in the form of a cross where 23. Ecclesia each arm of the cross is of equal length 27. Icon pertaining to the church 24. Gallery a painting of Jesus Christ or another holy figure, typically in a traditional style on wood, venerated and used as an aid to devotion in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches. 28. Iconostasis a long room or passage, typically one that is partly open at the side to form a portico or colonnade. a balcony, especially a platform or upper floor, projecting from the back or sidewall inside a church or hall, providing space for an audience or A screen of partition with doors and tiers of the musicians. icons that separates the bema, the raised part of the church with the altar, from the nave, the main part of the church, in Eastern Churches 29. Liturgy 33. Manuscript The official public prayer of the church A book or document written by hand 30. Loculi 34. Martyrium openings in the walls of catacombs to receive the dead 31. Lunettes a shrine built over a place of martyrdom or a grave of a martyred Christian saint 35. Mosaic A semi-circular wall area, framed by an arch over a door or window 32. Mandorla Art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass 36. Paten a plate, typically made of gold or silver, used for holding the bread during the Eucharist and sometimes as a cover for the chalice. an almond-shaped nimbus surrounding the figure of christ or other sacred figure 37. Pendentive An inverted, concave, triangular piece of masonry serving as the transition from a square support system to the circular base of a dome. 38. Squinch the polygonal base of a dome that makes a transition from the round dome to a flat wall 39. Theotokos God bearer.