Haloes
a disk or circle of light shown surrounding or above the head of a
saint or holy person to represent their holiness.
Catacomb
Catacombs are human-made subterranean passageways for
religious practice.
Ark of the Covenant
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Transept
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Nave
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Central Plan Church
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Ambulatory
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Narthex
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Apse
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Wall with Torah Niche, from house-synagogue
Date: 244-245
From Dura-Europos, Syria
Tempera on plaster
The Good Shepherd, Orants and the Story of Jonah
Date: Late 3rd - Early 4th Century
Painted Ceiling of the Catacomb of SS. Peter and Marcellinus
From Rome, Represents Christ's death and resurrection
Christian Art
The Good Shepherd
Date: Second half of the 3rd Century
Sculpture from Anatolia, Turkey
Santa Sabina
Date: 422-432
Rome, Early Christian Basilica Church
Constructed by Bishop Peter of Illyria
Clerentary windows, single side aisle, rounded apse
Church of Sta. Costanza
Date: 350
Ambulatory into rotunda, Rome
Imperial Christian Architecture and Art
Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
Date: 359
Crottoes of St. Peter, Vatican, Rome
Newly baptized and die
Oratory of Galla Placidia, Ravenna
Date: 425-426
Small Chapel, cruciform (cross-shape)
Barrel vaulted arms housing sarchophagi, lunette mosaic of the
martyrdom of St. Lawrenu
Church of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
Date: 532-537
Flanking aanches-semidomes (pendentive, drum, squinch, oculus)
Designed by Tralles and Miletus
Early Byzantine Art
Church of San Vitale
Dates: Consecrated 547, mosaics 546-548, Ravenna
Early Byzantine Art
Martyrium (church built over the grave of a martyr)
Emperor Justinian and His Attendants
Date: 547
North wall of the apse, Church of San Vitale
Empress Theodora and her attendants
South wall of the apse
craft art/mosaic
Christ Enthroned, Flanked by angels, St. Vitalis and Bishop Eccleisus
Date: 547
Monastery Church, Hosios Lukas
Date: Early 11th Century and Later
Near Stiris, Greece
Byzantine Architecture
David Composing the Psalms
Date: Second half of the 10th century
Page from the Paris Psalter
Paint and gold on vellum
Middle Byzantine Art
The Kaaba, Mecca
Date: 570-632
Cubical form is draped with a black textile
the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem
Date: 691
Golden mosaics, a Byzantine technique
Mosque Cordoba, Spain
Date: 785-786
Distinctively Shaped horseshoe arches
Dome in front of the Mihrab (965)
The Alhambra, Granada
Date: 1354-1391, Spain
Muqarnas Dome; composed of same 5000 individual plaster pieces.
Qur'an Frontispiece, from Cairo
Date:1368, National Library in Cairo
Ink, pigments, and gold on paper
Chi Rho Iota Page from the Book of Kells
Date: Late 8th or 9th Century, Iona Scotland
Oxgall inks and pigments of vellum
Early Medieval Art
Gospel Book of Durrow
Date: 715-720
Symbol of the Evangelist Matthew
Interlacings, carpet page
Early Medieval Art
Equistrian Portrait of Charles the Bald
Date: 9th Century, Paris
Bronze
Inspired From Rome and Ravenna
Early Medieval Art
Chapel of Charlemagne at Aachen
Date: 792-895, Germany
Clerestory, tribune, aisle
Function: Charlemagne's private place of worship
Saint Gall Plan
Date: 817
Original in red ink on a parchment, Switzerland
Architectural planning for monastic life
Center of the Saint Gall plan is the cloister
Gera Crucifix
Date:970
Painted and gilded wood, Cologne Cathedral, Germany
Gero himself placed a consecrated host. ( He was an archbishop)
Doors of Bishop Bernward
Abbey Church of Sint Michael -c. 1,015 CE -Hildesheim,
Germany
Early Medieval Art: Ottoman Europe
Abbey at Cluny, France
Date:1088-1130
Benedictine Monks
Reliquary Statue of Saint Fay (st. faith)
Date: Late 9th or 10th Century
Abbey Church of Conques
Silver gilt over a wood core, with added gems and cameos of various domes
Church of San Clemente, Rome
Dte:1128
Early Church furniture: Chair stalls, pulpit..
Columns are spolia
Byzantine Mosaic
Durham Cathedral
Date: 1087-1133, England
Original east and replaced by a Gothic chair in 1242-1280
Dover Castle, Southern England
The castle was used in World War II
The Last Judgement Typonum at Autun
-c. 1,120-30 CE or 1,130-45 CE -Tympanum on West Portal
-Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun, France
Romanesque Art: Architecture
The Bayeux Embroidery
Date:1066-1082
History of the Norman Conquest of England
-Canterbury, Kent, England, or Bayeux Normandy, France -Linen
with wool threads
****Scene: William's soldiers prepare a feast from food gathered
from the city of Hastings
Romanesque Art
Hildegard of Bingen-Hildegard and Volmar
Date:1027-1933 facsimile of part I. Original 1150-1175
Volmar: Date: 1927-1933
Gothic Art
Plan of the Choir and View of Ambulatory and Apse Chapels of the
Abbey Church
Date: 1140-1144
Plan: Ambuldary, apsidel chapels, apse
First Gothic building
Chartres Cathedral (Notre-Dame)
-began c. 1,163 CE -Interior: 6 part vaults, 4 part vaults
-sexpartite vault -point arches
Early Gothic Architecture
Cathedral Notre Dame de Chartes --> West Facade
-began c. 1,134 CE -Chartes, France -two rows of flying
buttresses(decorative skeleton)
High Gothic Architecture
Royal Portal --> West Facade
Chartes Cathedral -c. 1,145-55 CE -Chartes, France
High Gothic Architecture
Cathedral Notre Dame de Charted , Nave
Date: 1194-1220
Good Samaritan Window - 1200-1210, South nave aisle
Rose Window
North Facade, High Gothic
Reims Cathedral
Date: Begun in 1211, facade begun 1225, rose window 1260, finished 1428
West Facade - Central portal, right side, Mary (1240)
Ekkehard and Uta, from Naumbury
Date: 1245-1260
West Chapel, Naumbury Cathedral
Stone with polychromy
Nicola Pisana, Pulpit
Date:1260
Detail of pulpi, Baptistery, Pisa, Italy
Annunciation to the Shepherds
Giovanni Pisano, Nativity
Date: 1302-1310
Giotto, Arena Chapel, Padua
Date:1305-1305, Padua, East wall
- North wall- Marriage of Cona, raising lazarus, lamentation and resurrection
- South wall- kiss of Judas
Ambrogio Lorenzatti
Date:1338-1339, Italy
the effects of good government in the city
Piazza Della Signoria with Palazzo della Signoria
Town Hall: 1299-1310
Loggia Dei Lanzi: 1376-1382, Florence
Cimabue, Virgin and Child Enthroned, from Sta. Trinita
Date: 1280
Painted for the high altar, florence
Tempera and gold on wood panel
Giotto di Bondone, Virgin and child Enthroned from, Ognissanti
Date: 1305-1310
Duccio, Maesta
Date: 1308-1311
Raising of Lasarus
Simone Martini, Annunciation from Siena Cathedral
Date: 1333
Gothic Art