Another name for Charles the Great.

This had the most influence on Europe during the Romanesque period

A subterranean burial ground consisting of tunnels on different levels, having niches for urns and sarcophagi and often incorporating rooms

A symbolic representation without images of human figures

This art comes as a result of the mixture of Christian and Barbarian civilizations.

The agreement between the church and the secular community.

The historian who coined the term Gothic

A Jewish lamp-stand with seven or nine branches

A type of linear surface decoration based on foliage and calligraphic forms, usually characterized by flowing lines and swirling repeating shapes

The representation of a standing figure praying with outstretched and upraised arms

Workshops for monks to write scripture

The passage around the apse in a Basilica church or around the central space in a central-plan building

Roman Centers for administration, later adapted to Christian church use

A tall slender tower on the exterior of a mosque from which believers are called to prayer

A monumental building used as a tomb

This culture was known for paganism and ferocious and destructive raids.

The sacred light of all ages

In religion or philosophy, the union of different ideas or principles

A recess or niche that distinguishes the wall oriented toward Mecca in a mosque

The style of art that attempted to span in stone ever-wider surfaces from ever-greater heights

These became integral to the expansion of the learning of Christianity throughout Europe

The main force behind the unprecedented artistic and cultural activity of the eleventh and twelfth century

An arch or lintel built across the upper corners of a square space, allowing a circular or polygonal dome to be more securely set above the walls

The banning of or destruction of images, especially icons and religious art

The Pagan image said to have been the influence of the image of Christ and the Good Shepherd