Chapter 9 Keywords

1.     Altarpiece a panel, sculpted or painted, situated above and behind an altar

2.     Ambulatory the passageway around apse and choir of a church

3.     Byzantium the Christian, Eastern, Roman Empire, which lasted until1453, when Constantinople was captured by the Ottoman Turks. Constantine established it in AD 324, and called it the New Rome and it remained a united empire until Rome fell in AD 476.

4.     Chi-Rho a monogram of Christ

5.     Choir The space reserved for the clergy and the singers in a church usually east of the transept but sometimes extending into the nave

6.     Cloisonné a process of enameling by putting the ground glass into little cells mane of wires and fused in a kiln

7.     Cupola a drum with a shallow cap

8.     Drum a circular wall that supports a dome.

9.     Gallery a second story over the side aisles of a church below the clerestory

10.  Greek Cross one in which the arms are equal

11.  Hieratic a fixed stylized method of representation, often determined by religious principles or ideas

12.  Iconoclasm the destruction of religious images

13.  Iconophile persons who favored the production of religious images as an aid to devotion

14.  Icons religious images regarded as objects of veneration

15.  Justinian the founder of the New Rome which marks the beginning of the Byzantine Empire and the end of Late Roman Empire. He codified the Roman law.

16.  Latin Cross has along vertical piece and shorter arms

17.  Mandorla an almond shaped halo appearing around the head of a holy figure

18.  Mysticism the experience of union or direct communication with ultimate reality known as God or Spiritual Truth

19.  Pantocrater the image of God as the Creator of the Universe

20.  Pendentives a set of curved triangles, which achieve the transition from a rectangular polygonal opening to the round base of a dome or a supporting drum.

21.  Pillar a generic term for a vertical support (column, pier or pilaster)

22.  Psalter  a book containing the Psalms

23.  Rotunda circular area under a dome

24.  Squinches a system shaped like an octagon that supports a dome using arches, corbels or lintels to bridge the corners of the supporting wall and form the octagon inscribed in the square

25.  Theocracy a state ruled by divine guidance