Chapter 11 Key Vocabulary
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- basilica
- a civic building for legal and other civic proceedings; rectangular in plan with the entrance on the long side
- nave
- a central area of an ancient Roman basilica/church, demarcated from aisles by piers or columns
- apse
- a recess, usually semicircular, in the wall of a Roman basilica or at the east end of a church
- clerestory
- a fenestrated part of a building that rises above the roofs of the other parts
- narthex
- a porch or vestibule of a church
- transept
- the part of church with an axis that crosses the nave at a right angle
- piers
- verticle, freestanding masonry support
- buttress
- exterior masonry structure that opposes lateral thrush of arch or vault
- rotunda
- circular area under a dome
- baldicchino
- canopy on columns, frequently built over an altar
- cruciform
- cross shaped
- nimbus
- halo of aureole appearing around the head of a holy figure ot signify divinity
- codex and vellum
- separate panels of vellum (parchment) bound together at one side
- diptych
- two-paneled painting or altar-piece