Medieval Vocabulary Words - APAH

Who is a person that pays for a work of art or building to be built in their name or honor

• client
• customer
• employee
• patron

A triangle-shaped piece of masonry, with the dome resting on one side and the rest of the weight being channeled to the pier below

• Crossing

• Pendentive

• Squinch

• Pediment

A folio that contains words and pictures illustrating the words- very decorative

• plain text document
• black and white photograph
• blank notebook
• illuminated manuscript

Enamel work in which colored areas are separated by thin bands of metal, usually gold or bronze

• repoussé
• cloisonné
• champlevé
• filigree

What is this triangular shape that is holding up the dome?

• Dome

• Pediment

• Pendentive

• hexagon

The semicircular flat wall surface over a doorway, often contains decoration

• Lintel
• Architrave

• Buttress
• Tympanum

The bottom portion of a bay in a church consists of this

• Gallery

• Triforium

• Clerestory

• Arch

The outside support that comes from the upper part of a wall to a pier some distance away and carries the thrust of a roof or vault.

• jumping buttress
• flying buttress
• swimming buttress
• crawling buttress

The immoral practice of lending money at extremely high interest rates is called

• investment
• usury
• charity
• savings

A passionate expression of grief or sorrow. Like weeping or crying.

• Buttress

• Haggadah

• Lamentation
• Usury