History of Art no. 3

Subject: Pair of Eagle Fibulae

Medium: gilt bronze, garnets, glass

Context: worn on the shoulders as fasteners

Visigothic Spain

Visigothic and Mozarabic Spain

6-10th c.

Cloisonné

Cell in gold for a jewel

Subject: Women clothed with the Sun, escaping from the Dragon

Artist: Maius

Medium: ink and color on vellum

Context: Morgan Beatus, San Salvador de Tabara, Spain

Mozarabic Spain

Insular Art

7-9th c

Subject: Lion (St. John)

Medium: ink and color on vellum

Context: Book of Durrow, Iona Scotland

Insular Art

Artist: Eadfrith

Subject: St. Matthew

Context: Lindisfarne Gospels, from Northumbria England

Medium: ink and color on vellum

Insular Art

Subject: Chi-rho-iota page

Context: Book of Kells, probs Iona Scotland, beginning of Christ’s birth not the gospel

Medium: ink and color on vellum

Insular Art 

Carolingian Art

ca. 768-875

Subject: Denarius with “Christian Religion”

Context: coin of Charlemagne, Aachen Germany

Medium: Silver

Carolingian Art

Subject: Equestrian portrait of Charlemagne 

Context: Metz, France, inspired by other equestrian statues like Marcus Aurelius

Medium: bronze, originally gilded

Carolingian Art

Subject: Saint Matthew, Coronation Gospels

Context: supposedly found on him lap when he was interred, not real Byzantium but very good at copying techniques, from Aachen Germany

Medium: ink, color, and gold on vellum

Carolingian Art

Subject: St Matthew, Ebbo Gospels

Context: Hautvillers, France, inspired by the coronation gospels

Medium: ink, color, and gold on vellum

Carolingian Art

Psalm 12, Utrecht Psalter

Context: 3 different translations, Hautvillers or Reims, literal illustration 

Medium: ink on vellum

Carolingian Art 

Lothair Crystal

Context: Has the story of Susanna, made for king Lothair the Second

Medium: rock crystal with 15c gold mount 

Late Empire

ca. 192-ca. 337 CE

Subject: Basilica Nova

Context: Rome

Medium: concrete with brick facing and marble revetment

Late Empire

Late Antique

ca. 3-5th c. CE

Subject: Moses and the Burning Bush

Context: from west wall of Synagogue, Dura Europos, Syria

Medium: mural

Late Antique

Subject: Jonah under the gourd vine

Context: asia minor, from the Jonah group

Medium: marble

Late Antique

Subject: Vatican, Old St Peters basilica

Context: Rome

Medium: lots of stuff

Late Antique

Subject: Abraham and Melchizedek

Context: Detai of the nave mosaics, Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome

Medium: tesserae

Late Antique

Subject: Raising of Lazarus

Context: Rossano Gospels, Syria

Medium: ink, gold, silver, and color on purple vellum

Late Antique

Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus,

from Rome, Italy,

marble

Late Antique

Early Byzantine Art

527-726 ce

Suicide of Judas and Crucifixion of Christ,

one of four plaques from a box, Rome,

ivory

Late Antique

Justinian as world conqueror (Barberini Ivory),

Constantinople

ivory

Early Byzantine Art

Christ gives Crown to St. Vitalis,

apse mosaic of San Vitale, Ravenna

tesserae

Early Byzantine Art

Architects: ANTHEMIUS OF TRALLES and ISIDORUS OF MILETUS,

Subject:Hagia Sophia [Holy Wisdom]

Constantinople

medium: everything

Early Byzantine Art

Icon of Christ, as Pantokrator,

Constantinople

Encaustic on wood

Early Byzantine Art

Crucifixion with Iconoclasts,

Chludoff psalter, Constantinople

ink, color, and gold on vellum

Early Byzantine

Middle Byzantine

ca. 843-ca. 1204 ce

Christ as Pantokrator,

dome mosaic in the Church of the Dormition, Daphni, Greece

Middle Byzantine

Lamentation over the Dead Christ,

wall painting, Macedonia

Middle Byzantine

Virgin (Eleousa) and Child,

icon

tempera and gold on wood

Middle Byzantine

Umayyad Caliphate in Syria

7-8th c.

Dome of the Rock,

Jerusalem

including tiles and gold-plated dome; mosaic interior;

Umayyads in Syria

Umayyad dynasty in Spain 

8-10th c

Mihrab as seen through Maqsura, Great Mosque, Cordoba

Umayyads in Spain

Pyxis of al-Mughira, 968, ivory container (perfume?), court workshops of AlRahman III, made near Córdoba

Umayyads in Spain

Safavid dynasty in Iran

16th c.

Beginning of surah 18, al-Kahf (The Cave),

Koran

ink, gold, and color on vellum

Safavid

Surah 2,

Leaf from the Blue Koran,Tunisia,

gold and silver on vellum colored with indigo

Safavids

Mosque Lamp,

Mamluk dynasty, Cairo, Egypt

enamelled and gilded glass,

Ottoman dynasty in Turkey

[ruling from Istanbul, after ca. 1453

Imperial Cipher [tughra] of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent

ink, gold, and color on paper,

Istanbul

Ottoman

Ottoman royal ceremonial caftan,

silk and gilt-metal thread,

Istanbul

ottoman

MAQSUD OF KASHAN,

Ardabil Carpet,

from the funerary mosque Iran,

knotted pile of wool and silk

Safavid

Interior of the Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne,

Aachen, Germany

Carolingian

Schematic plan for a monastery at St. Gall,

ink on vellum,

Carolingian

Scenes from Genesis,

Vivian Bible, Tours,

ink, color, and gold on vellum,

Carolingian

Holy Women at the Tomb,

Drogo Sacramentary,

ink, color, and gold on vellum

Carolingian

Crucified Christ, Te igitur page,

Coronation Sacramentary for Charles the Bald, Tours,

ink, color, and gold on vellum,

Carolingian

Ottonians

ca. 936-ca. 1024

Wedding document of Otto II and Theophanu,

gold Caroline letters on purple-dyed vellum

Ottonian

Christ Crowns Emperor Otto II and Empress Theophanu

ivory

Germany

Ottonian

Crucifix commissioned by Archbishop Gero

for Cologne Cathedral

painted and gilded wood

Ottonian

Doors with relief panels,

Genesis, left door; life of Christ, right door,

commissioned by Bishop Bernward for St. Michael’s

bronze,

Ottonian

Column with reliefs illustrating the life of Christ,

bronze,

commissioned by Bishop Bernward for St. Michael’s

Ottonian

Henry II and Kunigende Crowned by Christ,

Lectionary of Henry II,

ink, color, and gold on vellum

Ottonian