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AP Art History 48-62 Quiz

Terms in this set (12)

Catacomb of Priscilla
Rome, 200-400 AD, excavated tufa (volcanic rock) and fresco, christian, was an underground passageway where Christians were buried
Santa Sabina
Rome, 432 AD, Christian, oldest still standing christian church, contains a basilica, nave, apse, colonnade, aisle, arcade, and a mosaic
Vienna Genesis
Byzantine, 500 AD, tempera paint, purple vellum Illustrated manuscript, was a luxury item for wealthy christian families
San Vitale
Ravenna (Italy), 547 AD, Byzantine, contains the Justinian Mosaic, shows the power of the emperor in the church and state
Hagia Sophia
Istanbul, 537 AD, principle church of the byzantine empire, contains minarets, pendentives, peers, and the theotokos mosaic
Merovingian Looped Fibulae
Merovingian (group of barbarians called franks), silver gilt with inlaid stones, was a broach used for holding a cloak on, cloisonne, zoomorphism, 430 AD, Rome
Virgin and Child between Saints Theodore and George
6th century AD, encaustic on wood, byzantine
Lindisfarne Gospels
Illustrated manuscript, Anglo-saxton culture, 700 AD, written by munks
Church and Reliquary of Sainte-Foy
contains relics, 1130 AD, Pilgrimage church, classical features, Stone square and squatty walls, radiating chapels, transept (where they held the relics), crossing tower, westwork, portals, tympanum
Bayeux Tapestry
1070 AD, invasion and conquest of England, embroidered wool on linen, tells the story of the battle of hastings, shows normans (descendants of vikings) on boats
Chartes Cathedral
Gothic cathedral, Notre Dome de chartes, 1194 AD, France, contains stained glass, rose windows, marys tunic as a relic, and three stories of elevation (naive arcade, triforium, clerestory)
Rottgen Pieta
1325 AD, German piece, wood painted, realism, bloody, shows jesus in marys arms
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