Romanesque Art

Romanesque churches tend to have a floor plan witha shape of a

• Latin Cross

• Ambulatory

• Barrel Vault

• Capital

A crossing is the part of a church

• that goes right after the entrance, by the bell tower

• between the apse and the ambulatory

• where the transept and the naves meet

• located between the side naves and the central nave

What kind of churches had an ambulatory?

• Basilicas

• Pilgrimage churches

• Southern churches

• Mozarab churches

What are the three main functions of Romanesque painting?

• Educational, moralising and teaching

• Entertaining, moralising and decorative

• Entertaining, moralising and decorative

• Educational, moralising and decorative

The technique used in painting to make sure there are no empty spaces left in the fresco is called

• hieratic

• horror vacui

• hierarchy

• contrapposto

Christ in Majesty is also called

• Pantocrator

• Theotokos

• Hierarchy

• St. Mathew

Romanesque sculptures were mainly made of

• wood or stone

• wood or metal

• wood and paper

• marble

The tympanum is

• the space between the archivolt and the ambulatory

• the space above the archivolt and below the lintel

• the space between the archivolt and the lintel

• the space below the apse and above the ambulatory

Wooden sculptures are also known as

• carvings

• capitals

• hieratic paintings

• reliefs

Manuscripts were decorated with drawings. The ones that represented the text were called (a)__________ and the ones that would decorate it with out-of-context depictions were made at the (b) _____________.

• (a) miniatures, (b) margins

• (a) miniatures, (b) squares

• (a) drawings, (b) miniatures

• (a) drawings, (b) index