ART 101 Chapter 8 Exam Questions and Correct Answers Latest 2025
Late Antique Style - Answers Figures lack expression, volume & shadows
Niche - Answers Recess in the wall meant for holding icons
cubiculum - Answers a mortuary chapels where funerary feasts were held inside of the catacombs-
carved out of the rock
Lunette - Answers A semicircular area (with the flat side down) in a wall over a door, niche, or window;
also, a painting or relief with a semicircular frame.
prefiguration - Answers In Early Christian art, the depiction of Old Testament persons and events as
prophetic forerunners of Christ and New Testament events.
orant - Answers In Early Christian art, a figure with both arms raised in the ancient gesture of prayer.
Greco-Roman - Answers The cultural mixing of both ancient Greek and Roman traditions.
provenance - Answers place or source of origin
mausoleum - Answers A large and impressive tomb
Roman basilicas - Answers an oblong building ending in a semicircular apse used in ancient Rome
especially for a court of justice and place of public assembly
nave - Answers the principal longitudinal area of a church, extending from the main entrance or narthex
to the chancel, usually flanked by aisles of less height and breadth: generally used only by the
congregation
aisles - Answers the portion of a basilica flanking the nave and separated from it by a row of columns or
piers
Apse - Answers a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault
Transept - Answers an area set crosswise to the nave in a cruciform ("cross-shaped") building within the
Romanesque and Gothic Christian church architectural traditions
Relics - Answers valued holy objects from the past
clerestory windows - Answers a portion of an interior rising above adjacent rooftops and having
windows admitting daylight to the interior
central-plan building - Answers any structure designed with a primary central space surrounded by
symmetrical areas on each side; also called a greek-cross plan
ambulatory - Answers A semicircular or polygonal aisle. Often an ambulatory leads around the east end
of the choir; separating the choir from apses or chapels
Late Antique Style - Answers Figures lack expression, volume & shadows
Niche - Answers Recess in the wall meant for holding icons
cubiculum - Answers a mortuary chapels where funerary feasts were held inside of the catacombs-
carved out of the rock
Lunette - Answers A semicircular area (with the flat side down) in a wall over a door, niche, or window;
also, a painting or relief with a semicircular frame.
prefiguration - Answers In Early Christian art, the depiction of Old Testament persons and events as
prophetic forerunners of Christ and New Testament events.
orant - Answers In Early Christian art, a figure with both arms raised in the ancient gesture of prayer.
Greco-Roman - Answers The cultural mixing of both ancient Greek and Roman traditions.
provenance - Answers place or source of origin
mausoleum - Answers A large and impressive tomb
Roman basilicas - Answers an oblong building ending in a semicircular apse used in ancient Rome
especially for a court of justice and place of public assembly
nave - Answers the principal longitudinal area of a church, extending from the main entrance or narthex
to the chancel, usually flanked by aisles of less height and breadth: generally used only by the
congregation
aisles - Answers the portion of a basilica flanking the nave and separated from it by a row of columns or
piers
Apse - Answers a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault
Transept - Answers an area set crosswise to the nave in a cruciform ("cross-shaped") building within the
Romanesque and Gothic Christian church architectural traditions
Relics - Answers valued holy objects from the past
clerestory windows - Answers a portion of an interior rising above adjacent rooftops and having
windows admitting daylight to the interior
central-plan building - Answers any structure designed with a primary central space surrounded by
symmetrical areas on each side; also called a greek-cross plan
ambulatory - Answers A semicircular or polygonal aisle. Often an ambulatory leads around the east end
of the choir; separating the choir from apses or chapels
