A flat-topped, one-story building with slanted walls, invented by the ancient egyptians to mark apart of underground tombs.
A type of semicircular vaults.
The topmost zone of a wall with windows, usually in a church or temple.
A painting technique in which water based pigments are applied to a surface of wet plaster.
A subject in Christian art depicting the body of Jesus laid across the lap of his grieving mother, mary. When other people are present, the subject will be referred to as Lamentation.
A sculptural technique where the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material.
The combination of two intersecting, equal barrel vaults, having 4 sides of identical size and shape.
A massive gateway formed by a pair of tapering walls of oblong shape.
Reference to the Virgin Mary.
An arch built on the exterior of a building.
A painted, low relief or mosaic image representing a sacred figure or event in the church; believed to have miraculous powers.
A large rectangular building; Roman centers for administration or justice, later adopted to christian church use.
A design modeled lower than the original surface of the background, which was not carved away.
A subject in Christian art depicting the mourning of Christ.
The union of different ideas or principles in religion or philosophy.
The technique of allowing tones and colors to shade gradually into one another, producing softened outlines or hazy forms.
Intentional distortion (as by unequal magnification along perpendicular axes) of an image.
A painted or carved panel or winged structure placed at the back of or behind an altar.
An intaglio printmaking process of inscribing a design onto a metal or wood surface.