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- 2. The practice of adding hand-drawn illustrations and other embellishments to a manuscript.
- 5. A style of art that flourished in Europe from the 10th to 12th centuries, and was the first international style in Western Europe since antiquity
- 11. From the Italian maniera, meaning "style" or "stylishness", a trend in 16th century Italian art. Artists cultivated a variety of elegant, refined, virtuosic, and highly artificial styles, often featuring elongated figures, sinuous contours, bizarre effects of scale and lighting, shallow pictorial space and intense colors.
- 13. The period in Europe from the 14th to the 16th century, characterized by a renewed interest in Classical art, architecture, literature and philosophy.
- 14. In Roman architecture, a standard type of rectangular building with a large, open interior.
- 15. Decoration composed of intricately intertwined strips or ribbons. Especially popular in medieval Celtic and Scandinavian art.
- 16. The arm of a cruciform church perpendicular to the nave. Often marks the beginning of the apse.
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- 1. A style of art that emerged in the 12th century in Northern France and spread throughout Europe
- 3. Generally, a passageway flanking a central area. In a basilica or cathedral flanks the nave.
- 4. The period in medieval European history dominated by the Frankish rulers of the Carolingian dynasty, roughly 750-850 C.E.. Also refers to the artistic flowering sponsored by Charlemagne.
- 6. In church architecture, a vaulted passageway for walking around the apse. Allows visitors to walk around the alter and choir areas without disturbing devotions in progress.
- 7. The topmost part of a wall, extending above flanking elements such as aisles, and set with windows to admit light. In a basilica or church, it is the topmost zone of the nave.
- 8. A style in European and western Asian art in ancient and medieval times based in linear, stylized animal forms. Often found in metalwork.
- 9. In an ancient Roman basilica, the taller central space flanked by aisles. In a cruciform church, the long space flanked by aisles and leading from the entrance to the transept.
- 10. The semicircular, protruding niche at one or both ends of the nave of a Roman basilica.
- 12. In early Christian architecture, the porch or vestibule serving as an entryway to a church.
- 15. In Byzantine and later Orthodox Christian art, a portrait of a sacred person or an image of a sacred event.
