Humanities Exam 3 Art

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Purse Cover from Sutton Hoo burial ship
Early Medieval

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Chi Rho Iota Page, Book of Matthew from The Book of Kells
Early Medieval

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St. John from The Book of Kells
Early Medieval

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St. John from The Gospel Book of Charlemagne
Early Medieval

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Plan for a monastery at St. Gall, Switzerland
Early Medieval

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Facsimile of page with Hildegard's Vision from Liber Scivias
Early Medieval

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Bayeux Tapestry
Early Medieval

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Bayeux Tapestry
Early Medieval

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Bayeux Tapestry
Early Medieval

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Bayeux Tapestry
Early Medieval

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Bayeux Tapestry
Early Medieval

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St. Sernin
Romanesque

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St. Sernin
Romanesque

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St. Sernin
Romanesque

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St. Lazare (Last Judgment)
Romanesque

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St. Lazare (Last Judgment)
Romanesque

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Chartres Cathedral
Chartes, France
Gothic

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Chartres Cathedral West Facade
Chartes, France
Gothic

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Chartres Cathedral (Interior)
Chartes, France
Gothic

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Our Lady of the Beautiful Window
Chartres Cathedral (Interior)
Gothic

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Sainte-Chapelle (Upper Chapel, Interior)
Paris, France
Gothic

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Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Prophets
Cimabue
Gothic

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Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Saints
Giotto di Bondone
Late Medieval

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Giotto’s Lamentation from the Arena Chapel
Late Medieval

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The Arena Chapel
Paudua, Italy
The Life of Christ and the Virgin frescoes
Giotto
Late Medieval

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Adoration of the Magi
Giotto
Late Medieval

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The essential elements of Celtic-Germanic art—its function and examples

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Interlace
-Thought to protect object and when worn, the wearer
Animals usually included
Ex. Purse cover from Sutton Hoo burial ship
Hoard of 1.350 Pieces

No sense of spatial depth -- frontal surface

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Charlemagne’s motto and its connection to works of art or architecture

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Renovatio Romani Imperii
(Revival of the Roman Empire)
Equestrian Statue of Charlemagne
St. Riquier has imperial towers because it was paid for by Charlemagne

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The importance of the years 1000 and 1260

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Leif Eriksson lead Viking invasions from North America to Iceland, Greenland, the British Isles, and France by 1000
Joachim of Fiore said the world was going to end in 1260

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The three means by which the religious fervor of the Romanesque period is manifested in society

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1. Crusades

2. Pilgrimages

3. Religious Visions

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The essential features of Romanesque pilgrimage church design and theme of its tympanum sculpture

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St. Sernin
Longer nave
Double side aisles
Continuous side aisles
Small chapels with reliquaries
Second floor gallery
solid, round (barrel) masonry vault
-pushed outward
-resulted in limited windows (minimal light)
Typanum - semi-circular are above Romanesque church doors (Last Judgment)

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The inter-relationship between Gothic dualism, scholasticism, and the art/architecture of the age

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Gothic dualism: People at this time were perfectly comfortable with reconcilling binaries-- divine order was found this way
-faith & rationality
-comprehensive knowledge of the world can only be understood through the study of complementary relationships
Scholaticism -- good example of gothic dualism, St. Thomas Aquinas-- reconciles faith and reason -- reintroduced to Aristotle, path to truth is through the rational, reconciles rationality and faith
-works of Aristotle rediscovered, manuscripts found by the Crusaders
Art/Architecture
Pointed arches, pointed ribs & flying butresses-- Gothic cathedral (light); created through science

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The essential features of Gothic church design (connection to light) along with its ‘inventor’

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Pointed arches, ribs & flying butresses
Nave, side aisles, & apse became 1/3 of the church - trinity
Portals & tympanums
Light symbolized God and his divine power

Abbott Suger

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The features of Giotto’s work which indicate growing naturalism

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3d shading
Left a space to put you into the painting
Created idea of paintings going beyond the the frame (picture is cut off on sides)--Frame is a window on the world

Throne is a space creating device

Background changes from gold to blue between Madonna and child

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The connection between art and Dante’s Divine Comedy

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Arena Chapel commissioned by the Serrvegni Family and they were in Dante's Hell for creating interest on loans (usery)