Unit 2 SG - Romanesque & Hinduism pt.3

Burial Ship

Unknown artist

Romanesque

1.) Ship served as a burial chamber for two women.

2.) 90 feet long 14 feet wide

3.) The woman were laid out on separate beds containing wooden chests.

Page with David and Court Musicians

Unknown Artist

Romanesque

1.) Depicts an enthroned David surrounded by court musicians.

2.) It suggests that instrumental may have played a role in Christian worship long before the twefifth century.

3.) Animal style and frames suggest this is a celebration any Anglo Saxon would have recognized.

Page of Hildegard’s Vision

Unknown artist

Romanesque

1.) Hildegard is shown recording her divine revelation and her copyist wait to transcribe her words.

2.) Main purpose was to teach and instruct.

3.) Hildegard’s visions were designed to aid communication and provide visual interpretation.

Abbey Church of Sainte Foy

Unknown artist Romanesque

1.) The oldest out of the major pilgrimage churches.

2.) Sainte Foy was the second church on the route to Santiago de Compostela.

3.) Is an example of Romanesque style of art.

Tympanum at Sainte Foy

Unknown artist

Romanesque

1.) Depicts the Last Judgement.

2.) Uses composition effectively to distinguish the saved from the damned.

3.) Lintel is divided into two sections. Left is heaven and right is hell.

Reliquary effigy of Sainte Foy

Unknown Artist

Romanesque

1.) Gold and silver over a wooden core.

2.) This survived due to the monks hiding it in the wall of the church when the Protestants burned the abbey.

3.) A container used to protect and display sacred remains.

Angkor Wat

King Suryavarman II

Hinduism

1.) The entire complex was constructed in a span of about 30 years.

2.) Consists of five towers that represent the five peaks of Mount Meru.

3.) The long bridge over the moat symbolizes the oceans surrounding the known world.

Shiva as Lord of the Dance

Unknown artist

Hinduism

1.) In the back left hand, Shiva carries fire, which represents the destruction in energy at the end of the dance.

2.) In the back right hand, he holds an hourglass shaped drum that symbolizes the throbbing sound of his dance as he recreates the universe.

3.) As he dances, he is framed in a circle of fire, symbolic of creation and destruction, the cycle of life, death, and reincarnation.