What is the Pyxis of al-Mughira? 

What term matches the following definition? “In religion or philosophy, the union of different ideals or principles.” In an artistic context, when “artists assimilate images from other traditions and give them new meanings.” 

What term matches the following definition? “The first true arch in Western architecture, it displaces most of the weight, or downward thrust of the masonry above it to its curving sides.” 

What term matches the following definition? “In Islamic architecture, a vaulted rectangular recess opening onto a courtyard.” 

What sources inform our understanding of Etruscan temples? 

What term matches the following definition? “A concave, triangular section of a hemisphere, four of which provide the transition from a square area to the circular base of a covering dome. Although these appear to be hanging (pendant) from the dome, they in fact support it.” 

What custom might have influenced verism?

What was special about the dome at Hagia Sophia? 

What term matches the following definition? “A method of giving the impression of recession by visual instinct, not by the use of an overall system or program.” 

What term matches the following definition? “A group of buildings in which monks live together, set apart from the secular community of a town.”