Art History Vocab 2.txt

Carefully cut blocks at stone used in construction and usually fitted together without mortar

Were a series of religiously sanctioned military campaigns waged by much of Western Christian Europe, particularly by the Franks of France and the Holy Roman Empire

A wall bearing arch that divides or compartmentalizes a vault of ceiling

A column-like, nonfunctional form projecting from a wall and articulating it visually

Front of a building

The side of a doorway or window frame

An almond-shaped nimbus around the figure of Christ or images of saints indicating divinity

A long quest/journey or search of great moral significance

The unit in a Romanesque Church composed of the apse, ambulatory, and radiating chapels

Doorway

Chapels arranged around the ambulatory and sometimes the transept of a medieval church

Rounded arch used in Romanesque architecture

Crossing square formed by name and transept used as the standard unit of measurement for the rest of the church

A Latin version of the Bible prepared by St. Jerome in the 4th century, serving as the authorized version of the Roman Catholic Church