Unit 3: Early Europe and Colonial Americas, 200–1750 CE

Catacomb of Priscilla

Rome, Italy.

Late Antique Europe.

c. 200-400 CE.

Excavated tufa and fresco.

Santa Sabina

Rome, Italy.

Late Antique Europe.

c. 422-432 CE.

Brick and stone, wooden roof.

Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well and Jacob Wrestling the Angel, from the Vienna Genesis.

Early Byzantine Europe.

EarlysixthcenturyCE.

Illuminated manuscript (tempera, gold, and silver on purple vellum).

San Vitale

Ravenna,Italy.

EarlyByzantineEurope.

c. 526-547 CE.

Brick, marble, and stone veneer; mosaic.

Hagia Sophia

Constantinople (Istanbul).

Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus.

532-537 CE.

Brick and ceramic elements with stone and mosaic veneer.

Merovingian looped fibulae

Early medieval Europe.

Mid-sixthcenturyCE.

Silvergiltworkedinfiligree,with inlays of garnets and other stones.

Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George

EarlyByzantineEurope.

Sixthor early seventh century CE.

Encaustic on wood.

Lindisfarne Gospels: St. Matthew, cross-carpet page; St. Luke portrait page; St. Luke incipit page.

Earlymedieval(HibernoSaxon) Europe.

c.700ce.

Illuminated manuscript (ink, pigments, and gold on vellum).

Great Mosque of Cordoba

Córdoba,Spain.

Umayyad.

c.785-786CE.

Stonemasonry.

Pyxis of al-Mughira

Umayyad.

c. 968 CE.

Ivory

Church of Sainte-Foy

Conques, France.

Romanesque Europe.

Church: c. 1050-1130 CE;ReliquaryofSaintFoy: ninth century CE, withlateradditions.

Stone(architecture); stone and paint (tympanum); gold, silver, gemstones, and enamel over wood (reliquary).

Bayeux Tapestry

Romanesque Europe (English or Norman).

c.1066-1080CE.

Embroidery on linen.

Chartres Cathedral

Chartres, France.

Gothic Europe.

Originalconstructionc.1145-1155CE; reconstructed 1194-1220 CE Limestone, stained glass.

Dedication Page with Blanche of Castile and King Louis IX of France, Scenes from the Apocalypse

Bibles moralisées.

Gothic Europe.

c. 1225- 1245 CE. Illuminated manuscript (ink, tempera, andgold leaf on vellum).(2images,eachfroma separate manuscript)

Rottgen Pieta

Late medieval Europe.

c. 1300-1325 CE.

Painted wood.

Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel, including Lamentation.

Padua, Italy.

Unknown architect; Giotto di Bondone (artist).

Chapel: c. 1303 CE; Fresco: c. 1305 CE.

Brick (architecture) and fresco.

Golden Haggadah (The Plagues of Egypt, Scenes of Liberation, and Preparation for Passover)

Late medievalSpain.

c.1320CE.

Illuminated manuscript (pigments and gold leaf on vellum).

Alhambra

Granada,Spain.

NasridDynasty.

1354-1391 CE.

Whitewashed adobe stucco, wood, tile, paint, and gilding.

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Workshop of Robert Campin.

1427-1432 CE.

Oilon wood.

Pazzi Chapel

BasilicadiSantaCroce.

Florence,Italy.

Filippo Brunelleschi (architect).

c. 1429-1461 CE.

Masonry.

The Arnolfini Portrait

Jan van Eyck

1434 CE

Oil on wood

David

Donttello

1440-1460 CE

Brzone

Palazzo Rucellai

Florence, Italy.

Leon Battista Alberti (architect).

c. 1450 CE.

Stone,masonry.

Madonna and Child with Two Angels

Fra. Filippo Lippi

1465 CE

Tempera on wood

Birth of Venus

Sandro Botticelli

1484-1486 CE

Tempera on canvas

Last Supper

Leonardo da Vinci

1494-1948 CE

Oil and Tempera

Adam and Eve

Albrecht Durer

1504 CE

Engraving

Sistine Chapel ceiling and altar frescoes

Vatican City, Italy

Michelangelo

Ceiling: 1508-1512 CE; Frescoes: 1536-1541 CE

Fresco

School of Athens

Raphael

1509-1511 CE

Fresco

Isenheim Altarpiece

Matthias Grunewald

1512-1516 CE

Oil on Wood

Entombment of Christ

Jacopo da Pontormo

1525-1528 CE

Oil on wood

Allegory of Law and Grace

Lucas Cranach the Elder

1530 CE

Woodcut and letterpress

Venus of Urbino

Titian

1538 CE

Oil on canvas

Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza

Viceroyalty of New Spain.

c. 1541-1542 C.E.

Ink and color on paper.

Il Gesù, including Triumph of the Name of Jesus ceiling fresco

Rome, Italy.

Giacomo da Vignola, plan (architect); Giacomo della Porta, facade (architect); Giovanni Battista Gaulli, ceiling fresco (artist).

Church: 16th century CE; facade: 1568-1584 CE; fresco and stucco figures: 1676-1679 CE.

Brick, marble, fresco, and stucco.

Hunters in the Snow

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

1565 CE

Oil on Wood

Mosque of Selim II

Edirne,Turkey.

Sinan(architect).

1568-1575 CE

Brick and stone.

Calling of Saint Matthew

Caravaggio

15907-1601 CE

Oil on canvas

Henri IV Receives the Portrait of Marie de' Medici, from the Marie de' Medici Cycle

Peter Paul Rubens

1621-1625 CE

Oil on canvas

Self-Portrait with Saskia

Rembrandt van Rijn

1636 CE

Etching

San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

Rome, Italy.

Francesco Borromini (architect).

1638-1646 CE.

Stone and stucco.

Ecstasy of Saint Teresa

Cornaro Chapel, Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria.

Rome, Italy.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

c. 1647-1652 C.E. Marble (sculpture); stucco and gilt bronze (chapel).

Angel with Arquebus, Asiel Timor Dei

Master of Calamarca(LaPazSchool).

c.17thcenturyCE.

Oilon canvas.

Las Meninas

Diego Velazquez

1656 CE

Oil on canvas

Woman Holding a Balance

Johannes Vermeer

1664 CE

Oil on canvas

The Palace at Versailles

Versailles, France.

Louis Le VauandJulesHardouin-Mansart(architects).

Begun 1669 CE. Masonry, stone, wood, iron, and gold leaf (architecture);

Marbleandbronze(sculpture);gardens.

Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and hunting scene

CircleoftheGonzálezFamily.

c.1697-1701CE.

Tempera and resin on wood, shell inlay.

The Virgin of Guadalupe (Virgen de Guadalupe)

MiguelGonzález.

c.1698CE.

Based on original Virgin of Guadalupe.

Basilica of Guadalupe, Mexico City.

16th century CE.

Oiloncanvasonwood,inlaidwith mother-of-pearl.

Fruit and Insects

Rachel Ruysch

1711 CE

Oil on wood

Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo

Attributed to Juan Rodríguez Juárez.

c. 1715 C.E.

Oil on canvas.

The Tête à Tête, from Marriage à la Mode

William Hogarth.

c. 1743 C.E.

Oil on canvas.