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| votive figure | An image created as a devotional offering to a god or other deity |
| vellum | a fine animal skin prepared for writing and painting |
| westwork | the monumental west-facing entrance section of a Carolingian, Ottonian or Romanesque church. |
| ziggurat | in Mesopotamia, a tall stepped tower of earthen materials, often supporting a shrine. |
| woodcut | a type of print made by carving a design into a wooden block. |
| villa | a country house |
| scriptorium | a room in a monastery for writing or copying manuscripts. |
| sinopia | the preparatory design or underdrawing of a fresco. |
| burin | a metal instrument used in engraving. |
| Book of Hours | a private prayer book usually having a calendar. |
| basilica | a large rectangular building. Often built with a clerestory, side aisles separated from the center nave by colonnades, and an apse at one or both ends. |
| guild | an association of craftspeople |
| hall church | a church with a nave and aisles of the same height, giving the impression of a large, open hall. |
| madrasa | an Islamic institution of higher learning. |
| zeitgeist | German for "spirit of the time", meaning the cultural and intellectual aspects of a period that pervade human experience and are expressed in all creative and social endeavors |
