Art History Image Identification

Medieval Animals

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Siena fresco

Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy

1338-9

Masaccio

Desco da parto

1423

Tempera on poplar wood

Erfurt treasure

14th century

Gold

Jonah Swallowed, Jonah Cast Up, The Good
Shepherd, Jonah under the Gourd Vine,
Jonah Praying
280–90 CE
Anatolia, late Roman-early Christian
Marble

Tilman Riemenschneider

Saint Jerome and the Lion

Erfurt, Germany

1495

Alabaster

Court of Charles the Bald

Earthly Paradise

870

Ivory

Reusing a consular diptych from the 6th century

Book of Kells

Iona (Scotland) or Kells (Ireland)

Around 800

Hildebertus and Everwinus (De Civitate Dei)

Modern Czech Republic

1140

Parchment

Panther (Aberdeen Bestiary)

England

1200

Parchment and gold leaf

Childeric’s Bees

Grave of Childeric I, Tournai, France

436-482

Gold and silver coins, gold bracelet and signet ring, 300 gold w/ garnet inlay winged insects

Purse lid

Sutton Hoo ship burial, England

Early 7th century

Gold, garnets, glass

Tunic of Bathild (Chasuble of Chelles)

France

664-80

Embroidery; Linen; Silk threads in four colors

‘Marriage charter’ of Empress Theophanu

Byzantine Empire/Holy Roman Empire

Possibly created in Fulda Monastery, Germany

974

Parchment rotulus (vertical scroll)

Wilton Diptych

England/France

1396-1399

Tempera on oak panel

Barberini ivory

Constantinople (Byzantium)

525-550

Ivory (duh)

Hilton of Cadboll cross slab

Ross & Cromarty, Scotland

8th century

Sandstone

Bamberg Rider

Bamberg cathedral, Germany

1225-1237

Sandstone

Miniature of two horses and two men

Rochester Bestiary, England (Rochester?)

1230

Elephant illustration, Chronica Majora

Matthew Paris

1255 (time of chronicle entry)

Elephant of Louis IX of France, a present to Henry III of England.

Villard de Honnecourt

Lion drawing, sketchbook

France

13th century

The Virgin in a church, with Mary of Burgundy in the foreground; window through which the scene Christ nailed to the Cross is visible

Book of hours of Mary of Burgundy

Flanders, France

1475-80

Psalter Map

Possibly England

1260

Franks Casket

Northumbrian (England/Scotland)

Early 8th Century

Whale bone

Frontispiece, Livre de l’art de chasser au moyen des oiseaux, (Frederick II’s The art of hunting with birds)

Bruges

1482

Killer Bunnies

Bas-de-page scenes

The Smithfield Decretals, London, England

1340s

Bayeux Tapestry

Harold feasting, and Harold’s departure for Normandy

Late 11th century

Wool embroidery on linen

(Border fables: The Fox and the Raven, The Wolf and the Lamb, The Dog and her Puppies)