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Breviary
A Christian religious book of selected daily prayers and psalms
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Chevet
In Gothic architecture, the term for the developed and unified east end at a church, including the choir, apse, ambulatory, and radiating chapels
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Feudalism
Is a political and military system between a feudal aristocrat (a lord or liege) and his vessels
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Flamboyant Style
Following the Gothic Rayonnant style and named for the flame like appearance of its pointed decoration
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Gothic Arch
Pointed arch used in Gothic architecture
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Moralized Bible
Bibles that are illuminated with pairings from Old and New Testament stories that illustrate moral values or prefiguration
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Perpendicular Style
The final stage of English Gothic Style architecture. It had a strong emphasis and dense clusters of nonstructural ornamental ribs in the vault area
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Rayonnant Style
The "radiant" style in the 13th century architecture that is associated with the royal Paris court of Louis IX
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Tracery
In stained glass, the ornamental metal or stonework that creates the design into which the glass is placed
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Annunciation
The Christian celebration of the announcement by the archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would become the mother of Jesus Christ the son of God
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Diptych
A two-paneled painting or altarpiece
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Fresco
Italian word for "fresh." A technique of a painting onto wet plaster
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Horror vacui
Treatment of space in sculpture and painting where there are no empty areas. All parts of the surface are filled with images, design, details
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Tabernacle
A sanctuary, holy place
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Triptych
A three-paneled painting or altarpiece
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