Iconoclast

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Breaker of images; those who

   disapproved of the use of images of God/religious figures.

Iconophile

"Lover of images"; those of support and insist upon the use of images as necessary for devotion.

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Theotokos

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Greek word. "Bearer of God". Epithet of the Virgin Mary as the mother of God.

Domed cross-in-square plan

Recessed brick

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Mortar joints were mainly an aesthetic choice by the mason or the architect.  As 

ssed mortar provides a dark shadow line and draws attention to the brick rather than the mortarnoted above, rece

Cloisonne brick

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A decorative technique in which rectangular blocks of stone are separated or framed on all four sides by bricks.

Dentilation

 dentil  is a small block used as a repeating ornament in the bedmould of a cornice

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Pseudo-Kufic

[image]Is the term given to the imitations of the Arabic Kufic script, sometimes cursive Arabic script.  It is an example of the influence of Islam on Christian art.

Note the Pseudo-Kuficon the hem of the Virgin’s robe, as well as her Halo.

Iconostasis

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is a wall of icons and religious paintings, separating the nave from the sanctuary in a church. This term also refers to a portable icon stand that can be placed anywhere within a church. The iconostasis evolved from the Byzantine templon, a process complete by the fifteenth century.

Katholikon

[image]This term refers to one of three things in the Eastern Orthodox Church:

• The cathedral of a diocese.
• The major church building (temple) of a monastery corresponding to a conventual church in Western Christianity.
• A large church in a city at which all the faithful of the city gather to celebrate certain important feasts rather than go to their local parish church

Is the inner chamber of a temple in classical architecture, or a shop facing the street in domestic Roman architecture, such as a domus. Its enclosure within walls has given rise to extended meanings, of a hermit's or monk's cell

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Deesis

Prothesis

Diakonikon

name given to a chamber on the south side of the central apse of the church, where the vestments, books, etc., that are used in the Divine Services of the church are kept^[1] (the sacred vessels are kept in the Prothesis, which is on the north side of the sanctuary)

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