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Filigree Cloisonné enamel Fibula Insular Manuscript Illumination Codex Interlace Tonsure. Vellum Parchment Scriptorium Choir Piers Nave arcade Alternating Support System. The Migration Period Vocabulary. The Early Middle Ages in the West. Romans leave Northern Europe - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Migration Period
Vocabulary
• Filigree
• Cloisonné enamel
• Fibula
• Insular
• Manuscript
• Illumination
• Codex
• Interlace
• Tonsure
• Vellum
• Parchment
• Scriptorium
• Choir
• Piers
• Nave arcade
• Alternating Support System
The Early Middle Ages in the West• Romans leave Northern Europe• Migration Period- Different Barbarian tribes move in from the
East• Angles and Saxons move across the channel to Britain forcing
the Britons and Celts westward• Gothic Tribes moved westward within Europe and converted
to Christianity• Art: Stuck between two periods of naturalism-Classical
Antiquity and the Renaissance• Familiar with Roman influence• Created a visual imagery of their own political claim to the
land
Visigothic,Eagle Brooch,
6th century, Spain
•Cloisonné enamel•Filigree•Visigoths
Norse, Gummersmark
Brooch, Denmark, 6th
century
Anglo-Saxon, Purse Cover, Sutton Hoo Ship Burial, England, 625
•King Raedwald
Celtic Christian,
South Cross of Ahenny, Co.
TipperaryIreland,
8th century
High Cross of Muiredach,
Celtic Christian, Co. Louth, 923
Hiberno-Saxon, Book of Durrow,
St. Matthew, Britain, 660-680
•Insular•Codex•Manuscript Illumination•Author page•tonsure
Book of Durrow, St. Mark
•Author Page
Hiberno-Saxon, Lindisfarne
Gospels, Cross-Carpet Page,
Britain, 689-721
•Carpet page
Hiberno-Saxon, The Book of
Kells, Chi-Rho page, Iona,
Britain, ca. 800
•Initial page•Christi autem generatio
Detail of Chi RhoBook of Kells
Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne, Aachen, Germany, 792-805
Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne
San Vitale, Ravenna, 547
Plan of Saint Gall monastery, Switzerland, ca. 819
Plan of Saint Gall monastery, Switzerland, ca. 819
Saint Matthew, Coronation Gospels of
Charlemagne, Aachen,
Germany, ca. 800-810
Carolingian, St. Matthew, Ebbo
Gospels, 816-35, France
•Charlemagne•Monastery•Scriptorium
•Hiberno-Saxon, Lindisfarne Gospels, St. Matthew, 698-72, Britain
•Hiberno-Saxon, Codex Amiatinus, The Scribe Ezra, 689-716, Britain
Crucifixion, cover of the
Lindau Gospels from Saint Gall, Switzerland, ca.
870
Carolingian, Equestrian Statue of
Charlemagne, 9th century,
France
•Renovatio Romani Imperii•Holy Roman Empire 800-843
Carolingian, Lorsch Torhalle, 9th century, Germany
Norse, Lion Head Post, Oseberg Ship Burial, 825
Ottonian, Gospel Book of Otto III, Otto Enthroned,
Germany, 997-1000
•Holy Roman Empire 963-1002
St. Michael’s Church, Hildesheim, Germany, 1001-31
St. Michael’s plan
Ottonian, St. Michael’s, 1001-1031, Germany
•Choir•Piers•Nave arcade•Alternating Support System
Bronze doors, St. Michael’s,
Hildesheim, Germany, 1015
Ottonian, Bronze Column,
St. Michael’s, 1022