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St. Faith Reliquary Statue
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Interior of Cathedral of St James
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Reconstruction Drawing of Cathedral of St. James
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The Last Judgment
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The Flight From Egypt
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Interior of St. Denis
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Chartres Cathedral
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Royal Portal of Chartres Cathedral
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Prophets and Ancestors of Christ
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Interior of Chartres Cathedral
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Rose Window of Chartres Cathedral
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Ashokan Pillar
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Lion Capital from Ashokan Pillar
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Yakshi Bracket Figure
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Yakshi Holding a Fly-Whisk
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Buddha and Attendants
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Soldiers from Mausoleum of Emporer Shihunagdi
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Seated Guanyin Bodhisattva
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Travellers Among Mountains and Streams
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Great Pyramid and Plaza at La Venta
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Colossal Head
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Ceremonial Centerat Teotihuacan
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Pyramid of the Feathered Serpant
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Bloodletting Ritual
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Palace and Temple of the Inscriptions
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Portrait of Lord Pakal
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Lady Xok's Vision of a Giant Snake
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Earth Drawing of a Hummingbird
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Moche Portrait Vessel
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Great Serpent Mound
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Pueblo Bonito at Chaco Canyon
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Crowned Head of a King or Oni
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Memorial Head of an Oba
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Altar from the Edo Culture
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Plaque: Warrior Chief Flanked by Warriors and Attendants
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Great Friday Mosque
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The Flight into Egypt
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| Art with an emphasis on animal motifs |
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| The shaping of something in animal form or terms |
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| Rope that forms a complex design |
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Glass technique using cut spun pieces of glass to make a design |
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| Strips of gold are soddered to a gold base to make them stand upright, with enamel inside |
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| A place for writing. A room in monasteries devoted to copying of manuscripts by monastic scribes |
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| Parchment made from young animal skin |
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| Material made from older animal skin |
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| Free-standing Christian cross made of stone and often richly decorated. |
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| A journey or search of moral or spiritual significance to a shrine or other location of importance |
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| "worship" of saints that led to rise of pilgramages and the creation of monastaries and reliquaries |
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| A religious way of life that involves renouncing worldly pursuits to fully devote one's self to spiritual work |
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| 12th century French scholar, monk, and pilgrim most widely know as the author of the Codex Calixtinus |
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| A part of the body of a saint or a venerated person |
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| A clustered column or pier used to support the transverse or diagonal ribs of a vault |
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| A tall construction in a church with openings through which light from outside can shine down to the crossing |
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| The junction of the four arms of a cross shaped church |
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| An area set crosswise to the naive in a cross shaped church |
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| a chapel radiating tangentially from one of the bays or division of the apse |
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| The central pillar or mullion supporting the tympanum of a large doorway |
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| The columns that support the arch of a tympanum |
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| The semi-circular or trangular decorative wall surface over an entrance |
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| An ornamental molding or brand following the curve on the underside of an arch |
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| French abbot that is the influential first patron of Gothic achitecture |
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| long opening with a pointed arch |
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| Structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall |
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| A massive masonry block on the outside of a building with an arch to bridge the gap between the column and the wall |
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| Earliest form of window tracery that has the appearance of being cut out of a flat plate of masonry |
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| Glass panels held between stone mullions made up of carefully shaped lengths of masonry |
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| A vertical element that forms a division between units of a window, door, or screen, or is used decoratively. |
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| A circular window divided into segments by sonte mullions and tracery |
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| A divider bar used between small pieces of glass to make a larger glazing panel |
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| A large body of texts originating in ancient India |
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| The supreme Buddha of our age |
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| The repeating cycle of reincarnation withing Hinduism |
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| The profound peace of mind that is acquired with liberation. |
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| Behaviors that are considered to be in accord with the natural order |
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| Points in the human body that are centers of life force |
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| A spiral or circular dot placed on the forhead of Buddhist images as an auspicious mark |
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| A three dimensional oval at the top of the head of the Buddha |
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| A symbolic or ritual gesture in Hinduism and Buddhism |
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| Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent |
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| A mound-like or semi-hemispherical structure containing Buddhist relics, used as a place of meditation |
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| A spiritual and ritual symbol representing the Universe |
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| The world center or the connection between Heaven and Earth |
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| A type of gateway seen in the Hindu and Buddhist achitecture |
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| The female counterpart of the male yaksha that attend to Kubera |
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| The name of a broad class of nature-spirits, usually benevolent, who are caretakers of the natural treasures hidden in the earch and tree roots. |
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| A philosophical and religious tradition that emphasizes living in harmony with the Dao |
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| An ethical and philosophical system developed form the teachings of the philosopher Confucius |
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| A chinese landscape painter of the Song Dynasty |
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| An enlightened being whose compassion moves them to remain on earth to help others achieve enlightenment |
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| The general term for a tiered tower |
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| Village in the south of Kaduna State, Nigeria where the terracotta figurines were found |
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| An ancient Yoruba city in south-western Nigeria |
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| An ethnic group of southwestern Nigeria and southern Benin in West Africa |
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| A yokai from Japanese folklore, variously translated as demons, devils, ogres, or trolls |
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| A country in West Africa bordered by Togo to the west and Nigeria to the east |
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| Yoruba title for certain royal rulers |
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| Title for the queen mother in Benin |
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| Traditional court sword, symbol of power |
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| A natural buiding material made from sand, clay, water, and some kind of fibrous or organic material. |
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| Serve as scaffloding to reach the exterior areas of an adobe made building |
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| The first major civilization in Mexico |
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| Columbian Mesoamerican city known for Mesoamerican pyramids |
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| An architectural style that consists of a platform structure on top of an inward-sloping surface or panel. |
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| Plant with thorny leaves used to draw blood for the blood sacrifices |
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| Alcoholic drink made from the Maguey plant |
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| Large drawings in the earth that can only be seen from a great height |
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| Three-foot high prehistoric effigy mound located on a plateau along Ohio Brush Creek |
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