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What is the Leaning Tower of Pisa at the cathedral complex at Pisa?

What architectural element of Romanesque portals was used to depict the most important imagery?

In the early 900s, a new Saxon dynasty came to power in lands corresponding roughly to present-day Germany and Austria; this dynasty was known as the

The animated poses of the angels and mourners on the cover of the Lindau Gospels are similar to the energetic expressionism of

What quality of painted crucifixes, such as the one attributed to Coppo di Marcovaldo (Fig. 17-38), would make them especially popular in churches of the Italian mendicants?

“Lusterware” refers to a technique used to make ceramic surfaces resemble

A cornerstone of Christian philosophy is the text of

Which work is an example of the technique known as repoussé?

Which style of art from Constantinople influenced thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italian painting?

In the Icon of Saint Michael the Archangel (Fig. 8-29) from the Middle Byzantine period, the archangel is depicted as