The Middle Ages 476 to about 1450.

(Also known as the medieval period, and as the Dark Ages.) 

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•Italy, Ravenna, Mosaic,

•c. 545/46,

•colored glass and stone,

•432 x 615 cm, Museum für Spätantike und Byzantinische Kunst, Berlin.

• Portrait of Bishop Apa Abraham,

• c. 590 / 600,

• tempera on wood panel, 36.5 x 26.5 cm,

• Museum für Spätantike und Byzantinische Kunst, Berlin.  

• King ChildebertIle-de-France

• 1239-1244

• Statue, stone with polychrome traces

• Abbey Church of St. Germain-des-Prés, ParisEntered the Louvre in 1851

• King ChildebertIle-de-France

• 1239-1244

• Statue, stone with polychrome traces

• Abbey Church of St. Germain-des-Prés, ParisEntered the Louvre in 1851

The Epiphany

1320

Giotto di Bondone

Tempera on wood gold

John Stewart Kennedy Fund,

Madonna from the Annunciation

Simone Martini

c.1284-1344

Tempera on panel; 30.5 x 21.5 cm

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

1430

Jan van Eyck and Workshop Assistant

Antonio Pisanello

c.1395-Pisa 1455

Head and neck of a harnessed horse, looking away to the right, the bridle hanging

Pen and brown ink.

Portrait of a Man and Woman at a Casement

1440

Fra Filippo Lippi

Madonna and Child before a Fireplace

Robert Campin

Oil on panel

IlluminatedIlluminated ManuscriptsManuscripts

• Gerona Bible Master, Bologna, Italy, Gradual, Proper and Common of Saints

• tempera on vellum

• Musei Civici d'Arte Antica, Bologna.

Lindisfarne Gospels

c. 700

The Book of Kells

c. 760-820

Saint Matthew, Gospel Book of Charlemagne

800-810

Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna

 

Gospel Book of Otto III

c. 998-1001 AD

Gospel Book of Otto III

c. 998-1001 AD