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P- round building supported by 4 corners
S-dome supported by octagonal structure |
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| The destroying of icons during the Byzantine empire |
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| a covered walk, especially in a religious institution, having an open arcade or colonnade usually opening onto a courtyard |
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| a tall slender tower, typically part of a mosque, with a balcony from which a muezzin calls Muslims to prayer. |
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| The hypostyle plan’s characteristic forest of columns was used in different mosques to great effect. One of the most famous examples is the Great Mosque |
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| literally "a place for writing", is commonly used to refer to a room in medieval European monasteries devoted to the writing, copying and illuminating of manuscripts by monastic scribes |
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| is a semicircular niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the qibla; that is, the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca |
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| a form of architectural ornamented vaulting, the "geometric subdivision of a squinch, or cupola, or corbel, into a large number of miniature squinches, producing a sort of cellular structure", sometimes also called "honeycomb" vaults from their resemblance to these |
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| an ancient technique for decorating metalwork objects, in recent centuries using vitreous enamel, and in older periods also inlays of cut gemstones, glass, and other materials. |
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| the style of art produced in the post-Roman history of the British Isles |
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| parts of a church: choir, ambulatory/radiating chapels, nave arcade and gallery |
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| sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death . |
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| King Harold II of England is defeated by the Norman forces of William the Conqueror |
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| succession of arches, each counter-thrusting the next, supported by columns, |
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| nobles and knights who had joined the Crusades. The aristocratic Medieval Troubadours were poets |
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Gothic style, in which the ribs are all of the same curve and spaced equidistantly
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