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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Artwork: Christ as Pantokrator Time: Byzantine Significant: The mosaic image served to connect the awestruck worshiper below with Heaven through Christ. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Artwork: Dome of the Rock Time: Islamic Significant: First great Islamic building, erected as a tribute to Islam. |
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Artwork: Mosque of Selim II Time: Islamic Significant: A mosque with a domed covered. It was taller than the Hagia Sophia dome. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Artwork: Saint Matthew (Coronation Gospels) Time: Early Medieval Significant: Classical painting with the illusion of 3 dimensional form with using light shape and perspective. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Artwork: Equestrian portrait of Charlemagne Time: Early Medieval Significant: It depicts a crowned emperor holding a globe, the symbol of world dominion |
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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. |
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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. |
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Artwork: Last Judgment, Moissac Time: Romanesque Significant: The sculptural program reflects the belief that Christ is the door to salvation. |
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Artwork: St. Denis, France & Abbot Suger Time: Gothic Significant: Was the Key monument to Early Gothic sculpture. |
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Artwork: Rose window, Chartres Cathedral Time: Gothic Significant: It filled almost the entire facade wall of the High Gothic north transept of the cathedral. |
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Artwork: Virgin with Dead Christ
Time: Gothic
Significant: Humanism is represented through emotionalism shift towards representation of the human body in motion.
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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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