ART HISTORY QUIZ #3

Tomb complex of Qin Shihuang — East Asia

Funeral Banner of Lady Dai — East Asia

Central Binyang Cave — East Asia

• hybrid art -> to include local cultures and styles with ruling culture now

• budah we know because of the enlonged earlobes, third eye, and hands positioned

• wei style drapery (more flat at the bottom than what weve seen before) / sawtooth style

Fan Kuan, Travelers among mountains and streams — East Asia

Liang Kai, Poet strolling by a marshy bank — East Asia

Crowned head of female oni — Africa: Ife

Tada Seated Figure — Africa: Ife

Memorial Head of an Oba — Africa: Benin

Benin Bronzes — Africa: Benin

Sutton Hoo Ship Burial (including belt buckle and purse cover) — Early Midevil

Lindisfarne Gospel (know the Evangelist page and the carpet page) — Early Mid Evil

Book of Kells — Early Midevil

St. James, Santiago de Compostela — Romanesque

Church of Saint Foy (exterior and tympanum) — Romanesque

EXTERIOR

• housed holy relics, relatively plain exterior (safe space for refugees)

• Bell towers, buttressing (used to help bare weight, not a lot of windows due to this)

• Roman influences on the architecture: barrel vaults → arches on a larger scale, enlarged columns → buttressing

• Follows pilgramage plan → ambulatory, longer naves, radiating chapels

• Sense of verticality from the barrel vaults

TYMPANUM

• little negative space with a dense narrative, Christ in the center

• His right has images of the saved → Mary and peter with keys, angels, bottom register has house of paradise, saint for blessed by the hand og god, bodies coming out of coffins to enter paradise

• Middle is the weighing of souls

• His left has images of the damned → Judas hanging from the tree, demons tourturing people, satan in hell,

• Did active image (purpose is teaching the gospel)

Reliquary of Sainte Foy — Romanesque

Bayeaux Tapestry — Romanesque

• monumental scale 230ft in length → embroidered wool on linen

• 15 scenes depicted with latin inscription 600+ humans featured

chronicle — historical account

• dictorial narrative: william the conqurer va harold (the long lost anglo saxon king in great britian

• tapestry has an inaccurate name bs there were scenes added after the tapestry was made

• it was probably displayed at feats and banquets

• arragned in registers bottom and top were less relevant

• Haley's comment (sign that harolds rain should end)

Saint Denis — Gothic

Notre Dame rose window — Gothic

• originally a royal chapel for the kings palace

• Not open to the public either so many windows feels airy

• The church itself is a reliquary → in rayonant style extreme stained glass

• Drawing connection between the monarchy and the church

Amiens Cathedral — Gothic

Sainte Chapelle — Gothic

Bible of Saint Louis — Gothic

• unique to french monarchs → lasihly illustrated bible with abriviated excerpts

• blanche of castile (patrons) → mother of louis IX, played a major role on creating & which passages are chosen, goal of the influence was to be a good leader

• visual parallel between louis IX and chirst (blanche and mary)

• didactic: educational