Visual Literacy

Middle Ages Art Hisotry

Good Shepherd in catacomb of Priscilla (Second half of the 3rd century)

Arch of Constantine, 312-315 C.E., Rome

Coronation Evangeliar, part of the Imperial Regalia of the Holy Roman Empire (HRE), by Hans von Reutlingen, c. 1500

The Apocalypse Tapestry is the oldest surviving set of tapestries of this size, 100m (328ft). It was commissioned in 1375 by Louis I, Duke of Anjou and brother of King Charles V.

Last Supper (1304-1306) by Giotto di Bondone

Epistles of St Paul with Gloss (c. 1150), illumination on parchmen

Trajan column, 113 AD

four tetrarchs from constantinopole around 300 AD

Floor mosaic, from the House of Dominus Iulius in Carthage, late 4th C

Dura (Europos), Synagogue, view of paintings on the west wall, before aD 256

Junius Bassus sarcophagus, AD 359

via latina catacomb cubiculum c. 350

Projecta casket, second half of 4th C

Ravenna, San Apollinare Nuovo, first half of 5th C

Rome, Santa maria Maggiore, 432-40,

Ivory panel with Three Women at the Tomb and the Resurrection of Christ, probably Rome, first half of fifth century

Ivory throne of Archbishop Maximilian of Ravenna, mid sixth century

San Vitale, Ravenna, 520s

ravenna san apollinare in classe, c.530

sant'ambrogio milano, 379