Chapter 11- Late Antiquity (20-38)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Campaniles | a bell tower |
| Baptistery | a building or part of a building in which baptism is administered |
| Funerary chapel | small chapel off the side aisle in kings, lords or important people were buried |
| Cruciform | cross shaped |
| Nimbus | halo, a symbol of holiness |
| Vellum | a calfskin surface for painting |
| Parchment | lambskin prepared for painting |
| Illumination | decorations with drawings on handwritten works |
| Manuscript | (Latin for handwritten) a document, scroll or book done by hand |
| Scroll | old form of rolled format which was replaced by a codex a new form like book |
| Diptychs | a pair of paintings or carvings hinged together |
| Triptych | a three part altar-piece with a central panel and two wings |
| Polytych | many sided altar piece |
| Octagonal | eight sided |
| codex/codices | separate pages of vellum or parchment bound together at one side; the predecessor of the modern book |
| Crossing | the space of a cruciform (cross-shaped) church formed by the intersection the nave and the transept. It often has crossing tower over it |
| Relics | body parts, clothing and objects associated with a holy figure |
| Nimbus | halo appearing around the head of a holy person to symbolize divinity |
| Pieta | a painted or sculpted representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the body of the dead Christ |
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