Art: Magic form, and fantasy, ancient world, Middle Ages |
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Acropolis ancient appear apse arcade Archaic arches architect architecture artists Athens B.C. Marble barrel vault Basilica beautiful bronze building built buttresses Byzantine capitals Carolingian carved Çatal Hüyük Cathedral central century B.C. choir Christ church Classical clerestory colonnade color columns Corinthian culture decorated dome Doric drapery Early Christian Egypt Egyptian emperor Empire Etruscan eyes façade feet figures flanked France fresco frieze gold Gospels Gothic Greece Greek groin vaults Hagia Sophia head height Hellenistic human illuminated images imperial interior Islamic Italian Italy king later light limestone manuscripts Mesopotamia Mesopotamian Middle Ages Minoan mosaic Mosque Museo Museum nave original ornament Ottonian Paestum painters Palace Parthenon pediment period piers Polykleitos portal portrait relief Renaissance Roman Romanesque Rome roof Saint Saqqara scenes sculpture shapes shows side aisles Sopoćani space statue stone structure style surface symbols Temple tion tomb towers tradition Trajan transept vase vaults wall paintings westwork