Pulchritude
Beauty, especially beauty understood as a quality arising from the ordered wholeness and radiance of a thing rather than mere prettiness.
Sacred Art
Bestiary
The medieval animal-lore manuscript tradition that supplied the carved beasts of Romanesque and Gothic capitals and portals.
Brachium Domini
"The arm of the Lord" — the outstretched divine hand emerging from clouds, a formula for God's power without a full figure.
Chasse
The chasse — a house-shaped reliquary shrine — miniaturizes church architecture in gold and enamel, most famously in Cologne's Shrine of the Three Kings.
Cherub
The Baroque cherub head, ubiquitous on Catholic altarpieces and tombs, is visually a classical putto — theologically it borrows the name of a far more austere angelic order.