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Artwork: Arena Chapel



Artist: Giotto Di Bondone



Significant: it contained 38 framed panels depicting the lives of the Virgin, her parents and Jesus.

Artwork: Christ as Good Shepherd




Time: Late Antiquity




Significant: Is the subject of of the lunette. No earlier version of the Good Shepherd is as regal as this one.



Artwork: Ambulatory, Sta. Constanza, Rome




Time: Late Antiquity




Significant: Has a barrel vault, which is covered by its original 4th century mosaic somewhat restored. It did not display religious scenes, but rather images that are symbolic of early Christian as well as pagan belief.

Artwork: Christ as Pantokrator




Time: Byzantine




Significant: The mosaic image served to connect the awestruck worshiper below with Heaven through Christ.

Artwork: St. Mark's Basilica




Time: Byzantine




Significant: Church of the Holy Apostles at Constantinople, built in the Justinian time. It has 40,000 square feet of Byzantine style mosaics.




Artwork: Virgin (Theotokos) & Child between Saints Theodore and George icon,




Time: Byzantine




Significant: One of the few Icons that survived from as early as the fourth Century. The portrait had the combination of all three, Christ, The Virgin, and Saints. They were portrait paintings on wood panels.


Artwork: Dome of the Rock




Time: Islamic




Significant: First great Islamic building, erected as a tribute to Islam.



Artwork: Mosque of Selim II




Time: Islamic




Significant: A mosque with a domed covered. It was taller than the Hagia Sophia dome.




Artwork: Madrasa-mosque-mausoleum complex of Sultan Hasan




Time: Islamic




Significant: Was one of Hasan's major building projects in Cairo it was so large that it housed 4 Madrasas, a mosque, a Mausoleum, orphanage, and hospital, as well as shops and baths.

Artwork: Chi-rho-iota (XPI) page, Folio 34 recto of the Book of Kells




Time: Early Medieval




Significant: A page from the early medieval Irish book. The painter transformed the biblical text into abstract pattern, litteraly making God's words beautiful.


Artwork: Saint Matthew (Coronation Gospels)




Time: Early Medieval




Significant: Classical painting with the illusion of 3 dimensional form with using light shape and perspective.

Artwork: Otto III enthroned, Gospel Book of Otto III, Reichenau




Time: Early Medieval




Significant: He is holding the sceptor and cross-inscribed orb that signify his universal autority, conforming to a Christian imperial iconographic tradition that began with Constantine.


Artwork: Doors with relief panels, Saint Michael's, Hildesheim




Time: Early Medieval




Significant: The doors tell the story of original sin and redemption and draw parallels between Old and New Testaments, as in the expulsion from Paradise and the infancy and suffering of Christ.




Artwork: Equestrian portrait of Charlemagne




Time: Early Medieval




Significant: It depicts a crowned emperor holding a globe, the symbol of world dominion

Artwork: Saint-Sernin, Toulhouse



Time: Romanesque



Significant: Was one of the important stop on the piligrimage road through southwestern France to Santiago de Compostela. A Toulhouse dedicated to the city's first bishop, a martyr saint.

Artwork: Creation & Temptation, Of Adam and Eve




Artist: Wiligelmo




Time: Romanesque




Significant: Represents scenes from Genesis. One of the first examples of fully developed narrative relief sculpture in Romanesque art.


Artwork: Last Judgment, Moissac




Time: Romanesque




Significant: The sculptural program reflects the belief that Christ is the door to salvation.


Artwork: St. Denis, France & Abbot Suger




Time: Gothic




Significant: Was the Key monument to Early Gothic sculpture.


Artwork: Rose window, Chartres Cathedral




Time: Gothic




Significant: It filled almost the entire facade wall of the High Gothic north transept of the cathedral.

Artwork: Virgin with Dead Christ



Time: Gothic



Significant: Humanism is represented through emotionalism shift towards representation of the human body in motion.


Artwork: God as creator of the world, Paris manuscript



Time: Gothic



Significant: The artist portrayed God in the process of creating the universe using a Gothic Builder's Compass.




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