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Emperor Constantine designated Christianity as official religion of the empire |
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~Continued Christian faith among empire. Featured in certain works of art as a ruler with faith.
~Barberini Diptych shows him on charging horse (like Marcus Aurelius)
~Constructed Hagia sophia |
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Burial site of treasure-laden ship.
Found in Suffolk, England (1939)
Very elaborate and expensive treasures found there (ie. Purse cover with cloisonne technique) |
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In early Medieval manuscipts, decorative pages resembling textiles
(Book of checkered Matthew) |
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Page in "The Book of Kells"
Corresponds to opening of Matthew's gospel - Nativity of Jesus from Book of Matthew.
Initial letter of Christ in Greek (XPI, chi-rho-iota) occupy entire page |
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| the writing studio of a monastary |
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Egyptian technique employed on medieval Hiberno-Saxon treaure (purse cover, jewelry)
soldering small metal strips to a metal background and then filling the compartments with semiprecious stones, pieces of colored glass, or glass paste resembling sparkling jewels |
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style that resembles that of Rome some periods prior
"Roman-like" A term used to describe the history, culture, and art of medieval western Europe from 1050-1200 AD |
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Gospel book of Archbishop Ebbo of Reims
Modeled after Coronation Gospels, was created to appear energetic, rather than calm and realistic
(ie. Matthew writing the Gospel) |
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The "Ideal Monastery"
Schematic had clear distinctions
Purpose was to separate monks from the laity (non-clergy who lived at the monastery as well) |
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King of the Franks till 786, Emperor of Rome (800-814)
Admirer of learnign, arts, classical culture - placed value on secular and sacred books (ie: Coronation Gospels)
ART: "Equestrian Portrait of King Charlemagne) on horse |
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| a container for keeping relics |
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One of the great patrons of Ottonian art and architecture.
Builder of the abbey church of St. Michael at Hildesheim. An eager scholar, he made it the center of learning |
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| A covered walkway, outdoors, (as in a church cloister) or indoors; esp. the passageway around the apse and the choir of a church
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| the part of the church with an axis that crosses the nave at a right angle |
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| in basilica architecture, the series of arches supported by piers or clumns separating the nave from the aisles |
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| the windows that form the nave's uppermost level below the timber ceiling or the vaults |
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| a flat, rectangular, vertical member projecting from a wall of which it forms a part. It usually has a base and a capital and is often fluted |
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| semicylindrical in cross-section if in effect a deep arch or an uninterrupted series of arches one behind the other, over an oblong space |
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| formed at the point at which two barrel vaults intersect at right angels |
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| in medieval churches, chapels for the display of relics that opened directly onto the ambulatory and the transept |
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| an arch separating one vaulted bay from the next |
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| A church that was funded by the work of pilgrims who traveled to spread the word of Christinity |
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| Christ as ruler and judge of heaven and earth |
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