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Purse Cover, from Sutton Hoo Ship burial Suffolk, England 625 cloisonne made by barbarians sophisticated work most famous thing found in ship has imperial stamp four figural groups |
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Purse Cover, Sutton Hoo Ship Burial Suffolk, England center-eagle attacking ducks; violence sides- man attacked by 2 dogs of same size ungovernable world same subject in beowolff man in world he cant control 2 to 1 |
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Oseburg Ship Burial, ship and animal Head Post c. 825 ships like sailing into afterlife; vikings sailed a lot found inland not actually for sailing spread christian forums as plundered monasteries slaves, wooden chests, buried with them luxuries items shows importance |
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Oseburg Ship Burial, ship and animal head post c. 825 animal head posts survived made of intertwining forms of animal and plants gripping beast abstract but not entirely dense ornamentation; union b/w organic and abstract carved with alert eyes with animalistic presence carvings on ship too and churches; deep relief |
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Equestrian portrait of Charlemagne, Metz, France, ninth century badass legitimate claim cus crowned by pope leo 3 try to put together empire like J first holy roman empire crowned at old st peters got control many places like rome and ravenna ardent catholic, unites europe and extends peace interritory seal marked with renewal of roman empire try to make like ancient roman empire no minor goals sculpture follows long tradition of roman empires on horseback tries to connect to C was an augustus obsessed with being great r emp. his projects emphasized it interested in these sculptures cus he brot stature of theodora |
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Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne, 792-805 Aachen, Germany columns from ravenna bringing material from actual old empire J rebuilt tried to make some parts look antique even if built new to have effect of old house more martyred saints and then for Ch like C and 12 apostles with him 13th impressive three stories, takes eyes and zooms straight to heaven push into golden wall central planned footprint simple |
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Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne, 792-805 Aachen, Germany built like San Vitale but here can see straight thru marble and gold mosaics in (right) san vitale dissolve form; makes less sense architecture makes u understand how stands up; sturdy voussoirs; |
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Schematic Plan for a monastery from Saint Gall, Switzerland c. 819 Ch spurred construction of monasteries cus really wanted people to be educated only plan to survive for 7 centuries ideal plan without thinking of money etc benedictine so follows his rules but each m operated to to own heirarchy never built no free time; productive bakery, mills, stalls, two churches, self sufficient many beds for guests too scriptorium on left of apse where books made; holy |
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schematic plan for a monastery saint gall, switzerland c. 819 |
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Man (symbol of St. Mathew), Book of Durrow, 660-680 intricate and interlacing decorations could have been produced anywhere cus interconnected so no distinct styles four evangels and their avatars( mathew man, mark lion, luke ox, john eagle) carpet page-page without text with decoration like carpet mathew doesnt have arms schematic figure face frontal so easiest to percieve interest in check and diagonal pattern feet in profile stuff like hair not colored cus not important man flat and rendered abstract no spacial orientation-floating |
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Cross-inscribed carpet page, Lindisfarne Gospels stylized inscribed center of page dense thicket and looks like carpet design doesnt trespass border stays within lines; no violation interlocking forms precedent for ship and church forms for vikings later when plunder |
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St. Mathew Lindisfarne Gospels 698-721 figure centrist and less abstract sits on bench with cushion and bench recede in space; indicates depth can see where feet placed but cant tell exactly where curtain is mathew shows up a lot cus is one of evangelist iconography not fixed yet in greek and latin cus languages of bible labeled as saint |
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Saint Mathew, Coronation gospels 800-810 iconography clear; if other evang, then see other animal next to him man seated writing with great vigor is mathew gospel made under Ch rule as h r emporer pages luxurius and fully colored halo emphasizes head in profile desk all gold and chair shadows b/w legs but not arm cus light source from left sense of consistent space manuscript that positions as continuation of figural modeling wearing roman toga with no sleeves; roman rennovation even in these pics; identity as roman saint shown as calm |
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Saint Mathew, Ebbo Gospels 816-835 on chair and writes Here nothing is calm Nothing certain Vibration to it Shadows shading for volume Real artistic component is line Line is zig sag and motion filled This is st m who is writing Even hill behind is sccribbling He is in motion Even tho writn is boring so how to depict divine inspiration Rapid lines give it the motion Contrast |
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Saint Mathew (know which from where and when) Diff hair and landscape Left is quiet Right is motion frenzy; entropy With motion u have time, with time u have death; life moves and anything that moves can die removes sense of eternal Things stable like his head is stuff in halo are not subject to human time Gold that removes reality means nothing to walk thru No motion to interrupt Have to choose what u privilege Even border on right unstable and inspiring Left is stable and eternal but less of inspiration of divine; not subject to human time |
