Question: How is Raphael portrayed in St. Peter's?
Answer: by a mosaic replica of this last painting

Question: What year did Pietro Paolo Cristofari die?
Answer: 1743

Question: What was the art of the Fabbrica usually used for?
Answer: papal gifts

Question: What was the name of the painting used to represent raphael in St. Peter's?
Answer: Transfiguration

Question: The mosaics of St.Peter's are often based on what?
Answer: designs or canvases

Question: What is the most important mosaic piece built by Byzantine Christians?
Answer: the Madaba Map

Question: When was the the Madaba Map made?
Answer: between 542 and 570

Question: Where is the church of Saint George?
Answer: Madaba, Jordan

Question: When was the Madaba Map rediscovered? 
Answer: 1894

Question: The Madaba Map depicts as far South as the Nile delta, and as far North as what country?
Answer: Lebanon

Question: What era were the mosaics that adorned Saint Catherine's Monastery?
Answer: Justinian

Question: Where is Saint Catherine's Monastery located?
Answer: Mount Sinai in Egypt

Question: Why have wall mosaics generally not survived in the region?
Answer: the destruction of buildings

Question: Who is depicted in Saint Catherine's Monastery on a mosaic landscape background? 
Answer: Moses

Question: When was the mosaic at Saint Catherine's Monastery created?
Answer: in 565/6

Question: Which city had the highest percentage of mosaic covered churches?
Answer: Jerusalem

Question: Where was the Armenian Mosaic found in Jerusalem?
Answer: near Damascus Gate

Question: What type of plant is depicted in the Armenian Mosaic?
Answer: a vine with many branches

Question: When was the Armenian Mosaic re-discovered?
Answer: 1894

Question: What was the room under the Armenian Mosaic used for?
Answer: mortuary chapel

Question: Where would the Byzantine church of the Lazarium be located today?
Answer: Bethany

Question: When was the Byzantine church of the Lazarium constructed?
Answer: between 333 and 390

Question: The mosaic at the Byzantine church of the Lazarium most closely resembles mosaics from which area?
Answer: Palestine

Question: A church was built on top of the Byzantine church of the Lazarium in waht century?
Answer: the 6th

Question: The churches of which desert decorated their monasteries with mosaics?
Answer: the Judean

Question: When was the Monastery of Martyrius created?
Answer: the end of the 5th century

Question: When was the Monastery of Martyrius re-discovered?
Answer: in 1982–85

Question: Where in the Monastery of Martyrius is the most important mosaic work?
Answer: the refectory

Question: What was the name of the monastery that was discovered in 1930?
Answer: Monastery of Euthymius

Question: How many Christian churches have been found in the Christian Petra?
Answer: three

Question: When was the most important Byzantine church re-discovered?
Answer: in 1990

Question: What type of mosaics were present in the church discovered in 1990?
Answer: only the floor panels

Question: What century was the oldest known mosaic at the church discovered in 1990?
Answer: the 5th

Question: The scenes depicted on the mosaics were both native and what kind of mythological animals?
Answer: exotic

Question: Where would the Church of St Stephen be located today?
Answer: Umm ar-Rasas

Question: When were the mosaics in the Church of St Stephen created?
Answer: in 785

Question: When were the mosaics in the Church of St Stephen re-discovered?
Answer: 1986

Question: The mosaic floor in the Church of St Stephen is the largest in what country?
Answer: Jordan

Question: How many artists signed the frame of the mosaic at the Church of St Stephen?
Answer: Six

Question: Yaroslav held what title in medieval Russia?
Answer: Grand Prince of the Kievan Rus'

Question: Where did Yaroslav build his Cathedral?
Answer: Kiev

Question: What was used as a model for the church Yaroslav commissioned?
Answer: the Hagia Sophia

Question: What was the name of the church Yaroslav commissioned?
Answer: Saint Sophia Cathedral

Question: Who sent the Byzantine craftsmen that built Yaroslav's cathedral?
Answer: Constantine Monomachos

Question: In what country is the the Gelati Monastery located?
Answer: Georgia

Question: Who started construction on the Gelati Monastery?
Answer: king David IV

Question: Who eventually oversaw completion of the Gelati Monastery?
Answer: Demetrius I of Georgia

Question: Who was the central theme of the mosaics at Tsromi?
Answer: Christ

Question: The remains of what was found at Sepphoris?
Answer: a 6th-century synagogue

Question: Who were the primary inhabitants of Sepphoris in the 3rd through 7th centuries?
Answer: Jews

Question: The mosaic found at Sepphoris display a mix of Jewish and which beliefs?
Answer: pagan

Question: What figure is dominant in the mosaic at Sepphoris?
Answer: Helios

Question: What surrounds Helios in the mosaic at Sepphoris?
Answer: a Jewish month

Question: When was the synagogue in Eshtemoa constructed?
Answer: around the 4th century

Question: What patterns are present on the mosaic at the synagogue in Eshtemoa?
Answer: only floral and geometric

Question: When was the synagogue in Khirbet Susiya re-discovered?
Answer: in 1971–72

Question: How many panels are in the synagogue in Khirbet Susiya?
Answer: three

Question: What do the images at synagogue in Khirbet Susiya suggest about the communities views?
Answer: rather conservative

Question: In Byzantine Gaza, Jews were relaxed on what ban?
Answer: figurative depiction

Question: Where were ancient remains of a synagogue found in 1966?
Answer: in the ancient harbour area

Question: The mosaic found in 1966 depicts who as the central figure?
Answer: King David as Orpheus

Question: What is the central figure doing in the mosaic found in 1966?
Answer: playing a lyre

Question: When was the mosaic floor constructed?
Answer: in 508/509

Question: A 5th-century building in Huldah is believed to be what?
Answer: a Samaritan synagogue

Question: What does the mosaic at Huldah contain?
Answer: typical Jewish symbols

Question: What language are the inscriptions on the mosaic at Huldah?
Answer: Greek

Question: The synagogue located in Bet She'an had what kind of symbols depicted in its mosaic?
Answer: cultic

Question: The masters who built the floor in the synagogue at Bet She'an also constructed what other mosaic?
Answer: the floor of the Beit Alfa synagogue

Question: Who conquered the Eastern Provinces of the Byzantine empire?
Answer: Muslim

Question: What would later become the main Islamic form of wall decoration?
Answer: tile

Question: In Syria and Egypt, other than early Christians, who influenced their mosaic work?
Answer: Roman

Question: The Umayyad Dynasty made mosaic making do what in the Islamic culture?
Answer: remained a flourishing art form

Question: Where is the most important Islamic mosaic work?
Answer: the Umayyad Mosque

Question: Where is the the Umayyad Mosque located?
Answer: Damascus

Question: What was the significance of Damascus during this time period?
Answer: capital of the Arab Caliphate

Question: What is the largest section of mosaic still present in the Umayyad Mosque?
Answer: the "Barada Panel"

Question: What happened in 1893 that destroyed most of the mosaics in the mosque?
Answer: a fire

Question: Any mosaic having secular designs were likely what?
Answer: floor panels

Question: What were the floor panels of the caliphs and high ranking officials modeled after?
Answer: Roman country villas

Question: Where can the most superb example of Umayyad mosaic floor paneling?
Answer: the bath house of Hisham's Palace

Question: In which present day country would the residence of Al-Walid II in Qasr al-Hallabat be?
Answer: Jordan

Question: At Qastal in 2000 the earliest examples of what were found in Jordan?
Answer: Umayyad mosaics

Question: Where are some of the best examples of islamic mosaic work found?
Answer: Moorish Spain