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facade

any exterior vertical face of a building, usually the front

Crenellated

 a fortified wall with notches or openings on top

Campanile

 italian word meaning bell tower

podesta

a person whose function was similar to that of a city’s mayor

fresco

a wall or ceiling painting on wet plaster; when pigment merges with the plaster, and once harened the painting becomes an integral part of the wall

Iconography?

the visual images or symbols used by artists within their work to convey specific meanings

Hierarchical scale

the use of size to denote the relative importance of subjects in an artwork

Pulpit?

a raised lectern from which priests read biblical passages and deliver sermons

Baptistery

a building or room for the sacrament of baptism

Basilican

the central aisle of a civic or church basilica

Polychromatic

displaying several differnce colors

Trefoil

a decorative shape consisting of three lobes; resembles a 3 leaf clover

High relief

raised forms that project far from a flat background

Continuous narrative

 multiple events combined within a single pictorial frame

Classical

artworks from, or in a style deriving from, ancient Greece or Rome

Quatrefoil

 a decorative shape consisting of four lobes; resembles a stylized flower

byzantine imagery

flat figures on shallow gold backgrounds

Franciscans

order of monks who agreed to forfeit the ownership of property and become preachers to ordinary people

Polyptych

a work of art with more than three parts, usually attached together

Predella

a wooden step or platform that supports an altarpiece and is often painted with related scenes

Pinnacles

a summit or peak, often capping a tower, gable, buttress, or other projecting

Narthex

the entrance hall or vestibule of a church

Mosaic

a picture or pattern made from the arrangement of small colored piece of hard material, like stone tile or glass

Tympanum

a lunette shaped space above a portal, ofen filled with relife sculpture

Appropriations

borrowing images, objects, or ideas and inserting them into another context

Oratory

a prayer chapel

Mausoleum

a building of freestanding monument that houses a burial chamber

Apse

a recess at the end of an interior space, often semicircular, and typically reserved fo someone important

Grisaille

a method of painting in gray tones, typically to imitate sculpture`

Registers

a horizontal section of a work, usually a clearly defined band or line

Lunette

a semicircular or arch-shaped space on a wall or ceiling, usually with a frame

Renaissance

a period of classically inspired cultural and artistic change in Europe from approximately the fourteenth century to the mid sixteenth century

Buon fresco

wet or true fresco

Fresco secco

dry fresco