Early Christian To Renaissance

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Title:Catacomb of Saints Peter and Marcellinus
Date: 4th century
Subject: Great Shepard Motif, Jonah and the Whale; Orant figure

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Title: Dura-Europos, synagogue
Date: 3rd century

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Title: Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
Date: Rome, 359 AD

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Title: Santa Costanza, Rome
Date: 337-351

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Title: Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome
Date: 432-440
medium: mosaics
subject:Triumphal arch/Virgin as Mother of God Theotokos, Priest Mechizadek

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Title: Galla Placidia Mausoleum, Ravenna
Date: 425
subject: vault mosaic with four evangelists, good shepherd, St lawrence and his grill (not necessary)

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Title: Sant Apollinaire Nuovo, Ravenna
Date: 504
Subject: Miracle of Loaves and Fishes Mosaic

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Title: Hagia Sophia
Date: 532-537
Place: Istanbul Turkey

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Title: Baberini Dyptich
Date: 6th century
Subject: Justinian Mounted
Medium: ivory
Place: Louvre, Paris

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Title: St. Michael the Archangel
Date: mid 6th century
medium: ivory panel
Place: British Museum, London

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Title: San Vitale
Date: 526-547

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Title: Mosaics of Christ in Majesty in San Vitale
Date: 526-547

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Title: Mosaics of Emperor Justinian in San Vitale
Date: 526-547

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Title: Mosaics of Empress Theodora in San Vitale
Date: 526-547

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Title: Monastery of St. Catherine
Date: 548-565
Place: Mt. Sinai Egypt

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Title:- Virgin and Child with Saints Theodore and George,
Date: 6th century
Place: Mt. Sinai, Egypt
Subject: Eikon (icons)

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Title: Aula Palatina
Date: 320
subject: audience hall

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Title: Old St Peter's Church
Date: 320
Subject: ground plans, reconstructions, mosaics, shrine of St. Peters

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Title: Santa Sabina Church
Date: 422-432

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Title: Santa Constanza martyrium
Date: 350
subject: circular plan, ambulatory, mosaic vaults

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Title: Vatican Virgil
Date: Early 5th century
Medium: Manuscript

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Title: Rossano Gospels Evangelist Portrait
Date: Early sixth century
medium: manuscript

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Title: Ivory diptych for wedding of Symmachi and Niomachi
Date: 400
Medium: Ivory diptych
Subject: Senatorial families wedding

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Title: Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
Date: seventh century
Subject/Medium:metalwork objects (garnet set in metal cells or cloisonné and millefiori enamel)
Place: Suffolk England

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Title: Carpet pages for Book of Durrow
Date: 680
Medium/Subject: Gospel Book

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Title: Book of Durrow
Date: 680
Medium/Subject: Gospel Book

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Title: Book of Durrow Evangelist Portraits
Date: 680
Subject: St. Mark (lion) and St. John (eagle)

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Artist: Bishop Eadfrith
Title: Lindisfarne Gospels carpet pages (image on the right)
Date: 700
subject: Gospel Book

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Artist: Bishop Eadfrith
Title: Lindisfarne Gospels Initials (chi rho iota = Christ)
Date: 700

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Artist: Bishop Eadfrith
Title: Lindisfarne Gospels Evangelist Portraits
Date: 700
subject: St. John and St. Mark

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Artist: Bishop Eadfrith
Title: Lindisfarne Gospels Evangelist Portraits
Date: 700
subject: St. Matthew

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Artist: Bishop Eadfrith
Title: Lindisfarne Gospels carpet pages
Date: 700
subject: Gospel Book

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Title: Monasterboice (Muiredach) stone cross
Date: 920
Place: Ireland

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Title: Oseberg Burial Ship
Date: 825
Subject: Viking Wood Sculpture
Medium: some of it is metal sculpture

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Title: Urnes Church
Date: Mid Eleventh Century
Subject: Viking Wooden Sculpture

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Title: Equestrian Statue of Emperor Charlemagne
Date: ninth century
Subject: comparison to Carolingian coin

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Title: Equestrian Statue of Emperor Charlemagne
Date: ninth century
Subject: Comparison to Marcus Aurelius

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Title: Palace Chapel, Aachen
Date: Late eight to ninth century

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Title: Restored plan of Aachen Palace Chapel
Date: Late Eight to Ninth Century

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Title: Comparison San Vitale to interior of Aachen
Medium inside:Bronze cast doors, rails, pinecone fountain (evidence of bronze casting workshop)

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Title: Coronation Gospel
Date: 800-810
Medium: manuscript (general)
Place: Aachen Germany

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Title: Plan for St. Gall
Date: 820
Medium: parchment plan
Place: Switzerland

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Title: Corvey façade (westwerk)
Date: 873-885
Subject: church front

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Title: Ebbo Gospels
Date: 816-835
Medium: Manuscript (general)

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Title: Utrecht Psalter
Date: 820-835
Medium: manuscript (general)
Subject:Three copies of the Utrecht Psalter were made at Canterbury Cathedral, Harley Psalter 1000, Eadwine Psalter 1150 and Paris Psalter 1200. Each psalter uses the images from the Utrecht Psalter but the style of its own time.

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Title: Lindau Gospels
Date: 870
Subject: Gold book cover front
Place: Morgan Library NYC

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Title: Gernrode, St. Cyriakus church
Date: Begun 961

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Title: Comparison of Hildesheim's objects (just to compare)

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Artist: Bernward Hildesheim
Title: exterior of Hildesheim, St. Michael's Church

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Artist: Bernward Hildesheim
Title: section and plan of Hildesheim

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Artist: Bernward Hildesheim
Title: Bronze doors, St. Michael’s, Hildesheim
Date: 1015
Subject:Iconography of Old and New Testament panels

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Srtist: Bernward Hildesheim
Title: Bronze Column St Michael's Hildesheim
Date: 1015-1022
Place: Hildesheim Germany

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Title: Gero Cross
Date: 970
Medium/Subject:painted wooden Crucifixion
Place: Cologne, Germany

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Title: Lectionary of Henry II
Date: 1002-1024
Medium: Manuscript
Place: Germany

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Title: another view of Saint Ettiene
Date: 1080 (same date)

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Title: Toulouse (Saint Sernin)

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Title: Caen (Saint-Etienne)
Date: 1080

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Title: Moissac (Saint-Pierre)
Date: 1100
Subject: Cloister– sculpted capitals with exemplary narratives from Old and New Testaments, saints stories, decorative motifs and pier reliefs with Apostles and Abbot Durandus)

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Title: Cluny (destroyed)
Date:1080-1130
Place: Burgundy
Subject: Cluniac Order (not necessary or important)

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Title: Saint Savin Church painted barrel vault
Date: 1100
Medium:Ashlar masonry: tooled blocks of stone of uniform size with a fine finish

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Title: Toulouse (Saint-Sernin) transverse barrel vaults
Date: 1040-1120

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Title Toulouse (Saint-Sernin) groin vaults
Date: 1040-1120

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Title: Durhan Cathedral and rib vaults
Date: 1093-1133
subject: with earliest surviving church with rib vaults throughout

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Title: Saint (Pope) Alexander Head Reliquary (image on the right)
Date: 1145
Place: Stavelot abbey

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Patron: Odo of Bayeaux
Title: Bayeaux Tapestry
Date: 1080
Medium:7 strips of embroidered linen (230’x 20”)
Subject:The Anglo-Saxon King Edward sends his brother-in-law, Harold (Earl of Wessex) on a mission across the English Channel to Normandy. The nature of the mission is unclear to us but it appears that it may have been to promise the throne of England to Duke William of Normandy upon the childless Edward’s death. When Edward does die soon thereafter Harold is crowned king and immediately after this (with the help of hi half brother Odo bishop of Bayeux), Duke William invades England in 1066, wins at the Battle of Hastings. Although the tapestry is damaged at the end, we know the William was crowned king.

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ArtistL Signed by Giselbertus
Title: Autun, tympanum with Last Judgment
Date: 1130
Subject: Last Judgment/Salvation John ch. 10: “I am the door…. By me if any man enter he shall be saved”

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Title: Moissac, tympanum with Second Coming of Christ
Date: 1130
Subject: Book ofRevelations ch. 4

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Artist: Rainer of Huy (not certain but it was signed by him)
Title: Liège baptismal font
Date: 1118
Subject:Made in imitation of the Molten Sea outside Solomon’s Temple, as described in the Bible (2 Chronicles IV)

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Back 67

Title: Decorated initionals

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Artist: Master Hugo
Title: The Bury Bible
Date: 1135
Subject:Moses Expounding the Law

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Title: Virgin and Child (The Morgan Madonna) sedes sapientia or throne of wisdom (image on the left)
Date: mid 12th century
Subject (in the slide):compared with the 14thc Virgin of Jeanne d’Evreux

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Artist: Abbot Sugar
Title: Saint Denis Abbey Choir
dedicated: 1144

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Title: Chartres Cathedral
Date: 1194-1230
Subject:Double lancet windows and oculus windows, flying buttresses, quadripartite vaults, transept rose window given by Blanche of Castile (mother of St Louis )

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Title: Amiens Cathedral

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Title: Saint Chapelle Paris
Date: 1250

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Title: Chapel of Henry VII England Fan and Pendant Vaults
Date: 1503-1519
Subject: Fan and Pendant Vaults

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Title: Rheims Cathedral (High Gothic nave)

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Artist: Abbot Thierry may have designed it
Title:Chartres Cathedral, west façade (royal portal)
Date: 1150

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Title: column figures on West Portal of Chartres Cathedral

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Title: Coronation of the Virgin in Reims Cathedral Facade
Date: 1230

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Title: Visitation column figures by Master of Antique Figures
in Reims Cathedral
Date: 1230

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Title: Strausburg Tympanam Death of the Virgin
Date: 1230
Place: France

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Title: Ekkehard and Uta in Naumberg Cathedral (figure on the left)
Date: 1250
Place: Naumberg Cathedral, Germany

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Artist:Nicholas of Verdun (metal worker like the Michelangelo of the middle ages)
Title:Klosterneuburg altar
Date: 1181
Subject: (Liège font) (Mosan enamel)
Typology (Joseph in Well/Christ Entombed/Jonah in Whale
Place: Austria

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Artist: Nicholas of Verdun (metal worker like Michael Angelo of the Middle Ages)
Title: Three Kings Shrine
Date: 1190
Place: Cologne Germany

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Artist: Villard de Honnecourt
Title: Villard de Honnecourt sketchbook/model book (Leo al vif)

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Title:Silver Virgin and Child commissioned for Jeanne d’Evreux Queen of France
Date: 1339
Place: Louvre France

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Title: Virgin with Christ Pieta
Date: Early fourteenth century
Medium: Wood

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Artist: Nicola Pisano
Title: Nicola Pisano Pulpit Baptistry in Pisa
Date: 1259
Place: Pisa

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Artist: Giotto
Title: Arena Chapel, Padua
Date: 1306
Subject: Enrico Scrovigni, Raising of Lazarus, Kiss of Judas, Nativity, Lamentation (Nerizi)
Place: Padua

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Artist: Duccio
Title: Maesta Altarpiece
Date: 1308-1311
Subject: Front and back panels Entry into Jerusalem, Marriage at Cana, Crucifixion
Place: Siena