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Early Middle Age
Northern European Art
Sandrine Le BailAP Art History
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Europe in 306 - 324
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Europe in 476
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Attila (395-453)
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Vikings !!!!!!!
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Europe in 650
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Summary
• 410 - Fall of Rome – Political Chaos• 7th century : Dark Ages – Mass migrations Attila, Vandals, Vikings… created a period of instability• Destruction of the remains of Roman
civilization• Unifying force - Christianity
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Anglo-Saxon Metalwork
Art of the Warrior Lords5th to 10th centuries
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Map of England, 500 CE
British isles divided in small kingdoms
Each of them with a king
Christianity arrived in 6th century
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Interlacing Pattern
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Intricate gold and jeweled brooches or belt buckles =
status symbol
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Animal Style
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Sutton Hoo King Raedwald of East Anglia
Found in 1939
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Sutton Hoo Purse Cover, 600-650
Animal Style
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Cloisonné Technique
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Cloisonné technique:enamelwork in which
colored area are separated by thin
bands of metal (here gold)
Garnet and enamel
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Characteristics of Early Middle Ages
• Portable objects (fibuale, belt buckles…)• Interlacing pattern (from Celts)• Horror Vacui• Abstract depictions of animals and figures• Animal style
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Art of the Warrior Lords
Other than the ornamentation of ships used for burials, the surviving artworks of this period are almost exclusively small-scale status symbols, especially items of personal adornment such as bracelets, pins, purses and belt buckles, often featuring cloisonné decoration. A mixture of abstract and zoomorphic motifs appear on these portable treasures. Especially characteristics are intertwined animal and interlace patterns.
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Illuminated Manuscripts
Hiberno-Saxon Art6th-10th centuries
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Vellum (calfskin)
or Parchment
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Most bookmakers were monks
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Scriptoria
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Importance of monasteries
Codex
Scriptorium (pl. scriptoria)
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Importance of Monasteries
• Repositories for books and documentsLibrary filled with sacred texts as well as literary, scientific and philosophical works by Greek and Roman authors.
• Learning centers
• Literacy centers
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Eadfrith, Book of Lindisfarne, c.700
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LindisfarneThe Holy
Island
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Eadfrith, Book of
Lindisfarne, c.700Colored
ornamentationActive lines
Complex Interlaces patters
= Carpet pages (//Oriental rugs)
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Today in the British museum
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Saint Matthew from the Book of Lindisfarne,
c.700tempera on
velum
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Byzantine influence:- Greek words “Saint
Matthew”- Angel’s hand
covered - Flattened and linear
elements- less soft than
Byzantine painting
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Book of Kell(or book or Colomba),
c.800- 4 gospels
- Prefatory texts-Tables
- 680 pages
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Book of Kell, Chi-Rho-Iota
page c. 800
Beginning of the 18th verse of Matthew
(Birth of Christ)
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Hiberno-Saxon Art
Art Historians call the Christian art of the early medieval Britain and Ireland Hiberno-Saxon or Insular.The most important existant artworks are the illuminated manuscripts produced in the monastic scriptoria of Ireland and Northumbria
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Hiberno-Saxon Art
Insular books feature folios devoted neither to the text nor to illustration but to pure embellishment. “Carpet pages” consist of decorative panels of abstract and zoomorphic motifs. Some books also have full pages depicting the four evangelists or their symbols.Text pages often present the initial letters of important passages enlarged and transformed into elaborate decorative patterns.
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Carolingian Art
The Caroligian Renaissance(551-911 CE)
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Charlemagne (King 771-814)
• 800 – Crown Emperor in Rome
• Codified code of law
• Educational Reform
• Wanted to unify his people under the Church
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Charlemagne and the Arts
1st revival of Classical Art
New emphasis on the human figure(in the same time iconoclast controversy)
Flourishing Architecture
Encouraged the copying if ancient Roman books
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1st Revival of classical Art
Lorsh Gatehouse, c.760
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1st Revival of Classical Art
Lorsh Gatehouse, c.760 Arch of Constantine, 315
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Equestrian Statue of a Carolingian Ruler, 9th c. Orb
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Equestrian Statue of a Carolingian Ruler, 9th c. Marcus Aurelius, 2nd c.
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Charlemagne’s palace, Aachen, c.800
Throne room
Bath complex
Chapel
Main Gate
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Palatine Chapel, AachenWestwork
Odo of Metz,
Palatine Chapel, Aachen,
792-805
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San Vitale, Ravenna
Palatine Chapel, Aachen
Narthex
Westwork
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Westwork: monumental entrance to a Caroligian church in which 2 towers flank a lower central entrance
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Odo of Metz,
Palatine Chapel, Aachen, 792-805
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San Vitale, Ravenna
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Odo of Metz,
Palatine Chapel, Aachen, 792-805
Clerestory
Gallery
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Monasteries
Saint Benedict of Nursia
Ora et Labora
Work, Study and Pray
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Plan of the monastery of Saint Gall, Switzerland, c.820
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Church Library and scriptorium
Entrance
Hostel
Cloister
Dormitory
Refectory
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Westwork
Towers
Transept
Choir
Lateral Chapels
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Manuscripts
• Charlemagne had a scriptorium in Aachen• Renounce to the 2-dimensional painting• Wanted to restore a 3-dimension• Use of classical model• More convincing illusions of space
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The Ultrecht Psalter, 829-832
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Richly illustrated ink drawing of the
psalms of the Bible
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St. Matthew from the Ebbo
Gospels, folio 18v., c. 816-35
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St. Matthew from the Ebbo
Gospels, folio 18v., c. 816-35
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Saint John
Saint Luke
Saint Mark
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Carolingian Art
Charlemagne, king of the Franks since 768, expanded the territories he inherited from his father, and in 800, Pope Leo III crowned him emperor of Rome (r.800-814). Charlemagne and his successors initiated a conscious revival of the art and culture of Early Christian Rome.
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Caroligian Art
Carolingian Sculptors revived the imperial Roman tradition of portraying rulers on horseback.Artists merged the illusionism of classical painting with the Northern European linear tradition, replacing the calm and solid figures of those models with figures that leap from the page with frenzied energy.
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Carolingian Art
Carolingian architects looked to Ravenna and Early Christian Rome for models but transformed their sources, introducing, for example, the twin tower western façade for basilicas and employing strict modular plans for entire monasteries as well as individual churches.
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Ottonian Art
919-1024
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Holy Roman Empire
Ottonian Emperors (962-1024)
In contact with the Byzantine court and the Poppe
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Ottonian IvoriesOtto I presenting Magdeburg Cathedral to
Christ, 962-968 (MET)
Christ blessing Otto II and Theophanu, 972-973, Musée de Cluny, Paris
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Abbey Church of Saint Michael’s, Hildesheim, Germany, 1001 - 1033
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Abbey Church of Saint Michael’s, Hildesheim, Germany, 1001 - 1033
ApseWestwork
Apse
2 transeptsWestwerk
Entrances
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Westwork
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Windows in clerestory do not
line up with arches below
(10 windows9 Arches
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Transept
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Bishop Bernward, Bronze Doors, St.
Michael’s, Hildesheim,
Germany, c.1015.
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Bishop Bernward = tutor and advisor to Otto II
15 feet / 4, 5 m tall
each part of the door is cast as a single piece
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Santa Sabina, Rome
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Accusation and judgment of Adam and Eve
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Expulsion from the Garden of Eden
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Gero Crucifix, Cologne,
Germany, ca. 970
187 X 165 cm6/5 feet
Oldest large scale crucifix preserved in
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Ottonian Art
In the mid-10th century, a new line of emperors, the Ottonians, consolidated the eastern part of Charlemagne’s former empire and sought to preserve the culture and tradition of the Carolingian period.
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Ottonian Art
Ottonian artists, like other medieval artists, excelled in producing sumptuous small-scale artworks, especially ivory plaques with narrative reliefs, often influenced by Byzantine art. But Ottonian sculptors also revived the art of monumental sculpture in works such as the Gero crucifix and the colossal bronze doors of Saint- Michael’s at Hildersheim.
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Ottonian Art
Ottonian architects built basilican churches incorporating the towers and westworks of their Carolingian models but introduced the alternate-support system and galleries into the interior nave elevation.
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Important for the exam
• Medieval Art concerned more with spiritual than real world
• “Barbarian Influence”• 9-11th century – Classical Influence
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Vocabulary
• Animal Style• Cloisonné• Cloister• Codex• Gospels• Horror Vacui• Scriptorium• Westwork
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Questions
• Discuss the themes and subjects used of the paintings in early medieval Gospel books by comparing two specific examples from different part of Europe.
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Questions
• Explain the references to early Christian Roman traditions in Carolingian architecture. How did Carolingian builders transform their models?