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Barbarian art characteristics
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Animal style
>figures >characteristics |
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Closonne
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metal bands fused onto metal sheets to creat channals that were filled with colorful stuff
>Fibula (broach) >Purse cover (on hinges, attached to a leather-skin pouch) |
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Hiberno-Saxon (Barbarian-Christian Art)
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Lindisfarne Gospels (lindisfarne is primary site in England)
>Cross Page Swirling designs are actually serpants Horrorvacui:"fear of empty space (prevalent in many illuminated manuscripts-totally filled every space) >St. Matthew Abstract, reverse perspective (widened seat), symbol of the angel The Book of Kells (illuminated manuscript) >Chi Rho Page Has a big "P" on it swirling designs, 7.5x10 inches, "work of angels", abstraction because Monks would copy them |
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Golden Age of manucsripts?
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7th C. to 9th C.
Bodies also appear in art at this time |
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Carolingian Art
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Late 8th, early 9th C.
These manuscripts glorified Christianity 800 AD Charlomagne's Renovation (MIDIEVIL RENAISSANCE) Goal=to revive the glory of Rome, he thought he was the shit, created a political center and for this was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope. he imitated Constantine in creatting a unified Christian empire. >Revived art >Perpetuated learning Invited intellectuals and artistans from Byzantium in Western Europe to his home in Aachen in NW Germany, imported libraries |
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Charlemagne's Palace Chapel at Aachen
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Rounded arches (chandeleer thing hangs from ceiling), Roman influences (passed down from Christian art), Vaulted
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St. Gall
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Middle Ages, fear and superstition
Monastic Complex (building design) learning places safety salvation=goal self-sustaining? Central building=Abby clarity and order Nave, transept, gallery, clerestory nave and transept are of equal widths crossing SQUARE (everything else based off this proportion) |
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Ottonian Art
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Mid 10th C.=>East consolodated under a new Saxon line of German emperors (art is very expressionistic)
Culture preserved and enhanced (large-scale sculpture reemerges...none since Roman) Bishop Bernward's Doors >Creation of Adam Adam=>ribs >Reproach of Adam and Eve Abbreviated gestures, highly narritive, God blaming Adam, Adam blaming Eve, naked and ashamed Abstract, highly expressionistic (viewer response)=>German art Gospel Book of Otto III >Christ Washing Peter's feet Paper-doll-like images, flat, looks like a comic strip Gero Crucifix (Colon, Germany) striations of muscles dead weight bloating in stomach |
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Goal of Medivil times
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To reach the pearly gates
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