Basilica, (Stoa basilike, or basileios) building type with a clearstoreyed nave, two or more lower lean-to aisles on each side of the nave with a high central space delimited by colonnades and illuminated by clerestory lighting and an apse at the end of the nave, originaly for public functions, but later adapted for Christian worship. Larger examples may have first floor galleries and some had semicircular apses.
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Church- edifice for public Christian worship, distinguished from a chapel or oratory.
Types of churches
1. linear platform
a) basilica
b) aisle-less church (Romanesque church with integrated apse developed from the early medieval house church)
c) hall church
d) church with raised nave and lower side aisles
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There is so many painting techniques, and they are very important.
Despite graphics and drawing sketches where the line is basic expression, paintings express themselves through paint, and off course through balance between lines and paint.
To produce painting technique is most important. Technique is an action applied while making painting.
It is the way for creating art depending of methods and assets. In wider sense by the name of ‘’technique’’ it can be considered a way of making art in specific period style or epoch, while in another it means one specific way to create art.
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Tempera: Tempera was the most used technique. It is type of painting medium used to bind pigments. Etymology for tempera is from latin word temperare “to mix colors, temper, or regulate”. Tempera, also known as egg tempera, is a permanent fast drying painting medium consisting of colored pigment mixed with a water-soluble binder medium (usually a glutinous material such as egg yolk or some other size).
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