ArtH 1111 Ancient to Medieval Art

Prof. Dabbs

Fall 2004

SLIDE REVIEW LIST FOR EXAM #3 (Friday Dec. 17, 11-1, in our regular classroom)

[please let me know of any discrepancies or broken links as soon as possible – thanks!]

EARLY MEDIEVAL ART (Chap. 11; ca. 500-1000): [note: the highlighted terms are the stylistic periods]

Celtic-Germanic:

11-2: Purse cover, from Sutton Hoo ship burial, ca. 625

11-3: Animal-head post, ca. 825

11-4: Wood-carved portal, stave church, Norway, ca. 1050-70

(for a view of this church, click here)

Hiberno-Saxon: *please know name of manuscript (Lindisfarne or Book of Kells) along with subject matter as part of title I.D.

11-6: Carpet page, from the Lindisfarne Gospels, ca. 698-721

11-8: Saint Matthew, from the Lindisfarne Gospels, ca. 698-721

11-7: Chi-rho page, from the Book of Kells, ca. 775-825 [click title for enlarged view]

Names/Terms: carpet page; cloisonné; Hibernia (not an art term);’ horror vacui; interlace; manuscript illumination (see p. 249);

scriptorium; vellum; zoomorphic

Carolingian Art:

11-12: Saint Matthew, from the Gospel Book of Charlemagne, ca. 800

11-13: Saint Matthew, from the Ebbo Gospels, ca. 816-835

11-16: Front cover of the Lindau Gospels, ca. 870

Women Artists in the Ancient & Medieval Periods:

ANCIENT GREECE:

[not in text] The Origin of Painting, 17^th-century engraving after Charles Le Brun derived from Pliny the Elder’s “Legend of the Corinthian maiden”

[don’t have to know this image, but useful to know about the legend]

[not in text] - the Caputi Hydra, c.460 B.C.E., Greece [image of female vase painter; don’t have to ID, but useful for

background on women artists in ancient Greece]

ANCIENT ROME:

Dropped: [not in text] Marcia (?), Marcia in Her Studio, fresco from Herculaneum, before 79 A.D.

MEDIEVAL:

[not in text] Claricia, Initial “Q” with Self-portrait?, German psalter, c.1200

12-36: HILDEGARD OF BINGEN, The Vision of Hildegard of Bingen, from the Scivias, ca. 1050-79 [date given by text, I don’t

know why, since Hildegard DID live from 1098-1179, and the Scivias IS documented as being written in 1141!]

[not in text]: HILDEGARD OF BINGEN, The Cosmic Egg, from the Scivias, ca. 1050-79

TO THINK ABOUT:

- What typical media did women artists work in, and why? What types of subject, and why?

- What does Pliny the Elder’s passage on women artists (in coursepack, read in class) tell us about how women artists were

perceived and documented?

OTTONIAN ART: [THIS STYLISTIC PERIOD HAS BEEN DROPPED – DON’T HAVE TO KNOW]

ROMANESQUE (Chapter 12; 11^th - 12th centuries):

I. Architecture:

12-1, 2, 3: Saint-Sernin (Toulouse, France), ca.1070-1120 [mainly study/review the plan & the interior view]

12-9: Saint-Étienne (Caen, France), begun 1067 [only need to study/review the façade view]

12-12: Durham Cathedral (Durham, England), begun ca. 1093 (just know interior view)

Terms: ambulatory; architectural “bay”; buttress; crossing; façade; gallery; radiating chapels; rib; tripartite*

(*=terms added)

II. Romanesque Sculpture:

[not in text]: Reliquary of St. Foy

12-31: Head Reliquary of St. Alexander, 1145

12-25: GISLEBERTUS, Last Judgment tympanum, Saint-Lazare (Autun, FRA), ca. 1120-35

ADDED: 12-23: Old Testament Prophet, trumeau relief, Saint-Pierre, ca.1115-30

12-30: Virgin & Child, ca. 1150

Names: St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Terms: archivolts; jamb; mandorla; trumeau; relic/reliquary; tympanum

III. Romanesque - Other Media:

12-37: Initial “R” with Knight Fighting a Dragon, from the Moralia in Job, ca. 1115-1125

[not in text] Hellmouth, from the Winchester Psalter, ca. 1150

[scroll down when you get to this link]

12-40: Scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry, ca. 1070-80 [don’t have to know titles of individual scenes – showed different ones from those

in text anyways!]

*Want to look at the wall-hanging in its entirety? Check out this excellent website (hastings1066.com)

Names/Terms: William the Conqueror; Bishop Odo; Norman conquest

embroidery; historiated initial;

dropped: 12-39: Eadwine the Scribe at Work, from the Eadwine Psalter, ca. 1160-70

GOTHIC ART & ARCHITECTURE (Chapter 13; 12th-14th centuries):

13-1, 2: Church of Saint-Denis (near Paris, FRA), 1140-1144 [plan of choir; view of ambulatory]

13-4, 5, 6, 12, 13: Chartres Cathedral (Chartres, FRA), 1134-1220

For better view of the façade, click here

Sculpture: Old Testament Queen & Kings (jamb figures of “Royal” portal)– fig. 13-6

Christ in Majesty (tympanum) - for better view, click here

- for detail of Christ, click here

*For a “virtual” tour of Chartres, check out the San Jose State Univ. website

13-15: Rose window and lancets, Chartres Cathedral, ca. 1220

13-17: Saint Theodore, Chartres Cathedral, ca. 1230

13-11: Notre-Dame (Paris, FRA), 1163-1225

AND: view of façade (N-D, Paris) [not in text]

ADDED: 13-27: Virgin of Paris, 1320’s

13-26: Interior of the Sainte-Chapelle (Paris, FRA), 1243-48

13-23: Reims Cathedral, façade, ca.1225-90

13-24: Visitation [and Annunciation - not in text], jamb figures, Reims Cathedral, ca.1230

(Annunciation figures: Angel ca. 1245; Mary ca. 1230)

13-58: Milan Cathedral (ITA), begun 1386

Names/Terms: Abbot Suger; flying buttress; lancet window; rose window; tracery; gargoyles

Documents: Bernard of Clairvaux; Abbot Suger on the church of St. Denis [will not have to know Suger for exam]

dropped: 13-14: Virgin & Child, stainded glass window, Chartres Cathedral

13-32: God as Architect of the World, from a moralized Bible (Bible Moralisé), ca. 1220

13-33: Dedication page (Blanche of Castile, Louis IX), from a moralized Bible (Bible Moralisé), 1226-34

13-34: Abraham and the Three Angels, from the Psalter of St. Louis, 1253-1270

For info on the UMTC May term course “Gothic Architecture, Painting, & Sculpture IN Paris” click here