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A panel, painted or sculpted, situated above and behind an altar. See also retable. A church pulpit for biblical readings. A series of arches supported by piers or columns. The continuous molding framing an arch. In Romanesque or Gothic architecture, one of the series of concentric bands framing the tympanum. The crossed, or diagonal, arches that form the skeletal framework of a Gothic rib vault. In sculpture, the framework for a clay form. See tracery. A low parapet at the top of a circuit wall in a fortification. Likely the priest who created the mappamundi, attached to Lincoln Cathedral from 1264-1283. A Christian religious book of selected daily prayers and psalms. An exterior masonry structure that opposes the lateral thrust of an arch or a vault. A pier buttress is a solid mass of masonry; a flying buttress consists typically of an inclined member carried on an arch or a series of arches and a solid buttress to which it transmits lateral thrust. The lead strips in stained-glass windows that join separate pieces of colored glass. A bishop s church. The east, or apsidal, end of a Gothic church, including choir, ambulatory, and radiating chapels. The fenestrated part of a building that rises above the roofs of the other parts. In Roman basilicas and medieval churches, the windows that form the nave s uppermost level below the timber ceiling or the vaults. See compound pier. A pier with a group, or cluster, of attached shafts, or responds, especially characteristic of Gothic architecture. See crenellation. Alternating solid merlons and open crenels in the notched tops of walls, as in battlements. See section. The tower over the crossing of a church. A vaulted space under part of a building, wholly or partly underground; in churches, normally the portion under an apse or a chevet. See rib. Twentieth-century modernist art that is the result of the artist s unique inner or personal vision and that often has an

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emotional dimension. Expressionism contrasts with art focused on visually describing the empirical world. See vault. A Late Gothic style of architecture superseding the Rayonnant style and named for the flamelike appearance of its pointed bar tracery. In making stained-glass windows, fusing one layer of colored glass to another to produce a greater range of colors. See buttress. Directed the beginning of the building of the Cologne Cathedral in 1248 Originally a derogatory term named after the Goths, used to describe the history, culture, and art of western Europe in the 12th to 14th centuries. See vault. See Hallenkirche. German, hall church ; a church design favored in Germany, but also used elsewhere, in which the aisles rise to the same height as the nave. Master Honor A fortified tower in a castle that served as a place of last refuge. In Gothic architecture, a tall narrow window ending in a pointed arch. In the manufacture of stained-glass windows, the joining of colored glass pieces using lead cames. Robert De Luzarches Lorenzo Maitani See crenellation. A heavily illustrated Bible, each page pairing paintings of Old and New Testament episodes with explanations of their moral significance. A vertical member that divides a window or that separates one window from another. In basilica architecture, the series of arches supported by piers or columns separating the nave from the aisles. Nicholas Of Verdun Latin, eye. The round central opening of a dome. Also, a small round window in a Gothic cathedral.

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An arch made up of two double-curving lines meeting at a point. The large hanging terminal element of a Gothic fan vault. See buttress. A painted or sculpted representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the body of the dead Christ. In Gothic churches, a sharply pointed ornament capping the piers or flying buttresses; also used on church facades. See tracery. Jean Pucelle A shape or plan in which the parts assume the form of a cloverleaf. Defensive wall circuits. The radiant style of Gothic architecture, dominant in the second half of the 13th century and associated with the French royal court of Louis IX at Paris. An engaged column, pilaster, or similar element that either projects from a compound pier or some other supporting device or is bonded to a wall and carries one end of an arch. A relatively slender, molded masonry arch that projects from a surface. In Gothic architecture, the ribs form the framework of the vaulting. A diagonal rib is one of the ribs that form the X of a groin vault. A transverse rib crosses the nave or aisle at a 90-degree angle. A circular stained-glass window. The tall, cylindrical part of a column between the capital and the base. The lowest stone of an arch, resting on the impost block. In Gothic vaulting, the lowest stone of a diagonal or transverse rib. In a Gothic cathedral, the blind arcaded gallery below the clerestory; occasionally the arcades are filled with stained glass. In church architecture, the pillar or center post supporting the lintel in the middle of the doorway. Architects of Westminster Abbey's Chapel of Henry VII, London, England, 1503-1519. Villard De Honnecourt In Gothic architecture, the masonry blocks that fill the area between the ribs of a groin vault.