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Final Keywords for Romanesque and Gothic
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Architecture
Undergraduate 3
12/12/2011

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Abulatory
Definition
walkway or aisle around the apse, helped to direct pilgrim traffic
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Buttress
Definition
stone support attached to exterior wall
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Chapels
Definition
donated/ owned by wealthy families burial spaces or private chapels
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Chevet
Definition
French name for area of choir, ambulatory, radiating chapels
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Choir
Definition
square or rectangular area between the apse and transept
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Colonettes
Definition
Piers rise into segmented colonnettes to create ribs of transverse, longitudinal or diagonal arches over the nave
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Crossing
Definition
where nave crosses the transept, often topped by dome or tower
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Flying buttress

example?
Definition
exterior arched, stone support placed at the spring line of arched vault and joined to large piers that stand separate from the main structure and which resist lateral forces and carry loads to ground below

example: Notre Dame
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Linenfold carving
Definition
interior carving of wood or stone along walls, under altars, in panels, in doors. Looks like scrolls of linen
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Portal
Definition
door assembly
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Quatrefoil
Definition
type of ornamentation, like a four leaf clover
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Ribbed vaults
Definition
thin ribs of stone that run diagonally and transversely that help to support and stiffen the vault
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Rose window
Definition
Large, round window with radiating tracery above west façade and arms of transept
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Tracery
Definition
delicate lace-like motif carved in stone in windows of gothic church/ cathedral
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Transverse arch
Definition
projecting, reinforcing arch used to stiffen barrel vault from column to column
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Tympanum
Definition
semicircular area over portals
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Westwork
Definition
west façade, central portal bracketed by two towers
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