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19 Cards in this Set
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The period referred to as "Early Medieval" or "Dark Ages" have this muddles name because
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the period incorporates the traditions of a variety of different groups
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what might one assume about the lifestyles of people whose art consists of small, decorate, useful, and portable objects?
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likely to be nomatic
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a kind of decoration which uses ribbon-like twisted into knots
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interlace
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on the animal head from the Osberg ship, the ribbion-like forms are zoomorphic, i.e
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in the shape of animals
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The earliest Christian monasteries were deliberately place in the kind of environment
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as from from civilization as possible
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Books in the Roman empire were in this form ______ but books in the Middle Ages were______ a block of leaves bound together
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Scrolls
Codex |
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a book written by hand
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Manuscript
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in 793 CE the _____
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attacked the Monastery of Lindisfarne Vikings
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On the ships of their attackers, the Monks of Lindisfarne probably saw a work such as this
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Osberg Ship Head
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The Viking King at Osberg and the Anglo-Saxon king interred at Sutton Hoo were buried in
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Ships
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"Carolingian" art is called after "Carilus Magnus" whon we typically refer to as
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Charlemagne
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Charlemagne saw himself as reviving an ancient empire, so on Christmas Day in the year 800 he was crownded Emperor in the city of
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Rome
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The doors commissioned by Bishop Bernwald for the monastery church at Hildesheim are in this medium
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Bronze
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The subjuects of the images on the Left Door is _______ and the right is
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Old Testaments
New Testaments |
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The images on the Hildesheim Doors might be seen as horizontal pairs, a typology in which the Old Testament is a prefiguration of the New Testament; the overall message of the doors might be
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the origin of sin and the method of redemption
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What did the artist of the Hildeshiem Doors think about the human body?
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something to be ashamed of
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Why did the artist represent Christ with one arm longer than the other
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allowing us to read the gesture clearly is more important than anatomy
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Why did the artist of the scene representing Christ washing his feet of His apotles want a plain gold background to the figures?
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to gold also makes a flat bachground which makes it easy for us to see the essential gestures
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The subject is no so familiar that it is difficult for us to recognize the innovation of the Gero Crucifix, butt Christ is represented in a new way
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this is the first representation of Jesus which shows Him suffering
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