Art history Vocab

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Across
  1. 5. triangular roof space at the front and back of temples almost always carved or filled with sculpture
  2. 6. Windows Tall narrow window with a pointed arch.
  3. 8. building material made from earth (mud)straw, clay, & dried in the sun.
  4. 11. masonry carefully cut & grooved stones that support a structure without mortar
  5. 12. Vault When the arched roof extends into space looking like a tunnel.
  6. 13. wedge-shaped stone that forms the curved part of an arch.
Down
  1. 1. column rounded column attached to a wall that offers no structural support.
  2. 2. roof supported by columns.
  3. 3. decoration using polygonal shapes with no gaps, highly intricate& ornate
  4. 4. the window story of a church usually above the triform.
  5. 7. top 'head' of a column
  6. 9. the point in a mosque that indicates the direction toward Mecca.
  7. 10. wooden beams projecting from walls of adobe buildings.