HISTORY OF ART
EARLY MEDIEVAL ART
FEIJO SEGUIN, LIDIA
INTRODUCTION
EARLY MEDIEVAL ART
-500-1000AD-COLLAPSE OF ROMAN CIVILITZATION-MIGRATIONS-NO MORE
URBAN LIFE-FREQUENT WARFARE-CHRISTIANICISM MAIN RELIGION-RELIGION
UNIFICATE EUROPE-LITTLE KINGDOMS-MONASTICISM-MONASTICISM BECAME THE
CENTEROF CULUTRE, RICHNESS AND ECONOMICPOWER, AGRICULTURE...-SOCIAL
POSSITIONS VERY MARKED
METALWORKS
ANGLO-SAXONPURSE COVER FROM THE SUTTON HOOSHIP BURIAL IN SUFFOLK
ENGLAND 7TH CENTURY AD
-USED TO COVER A LEATHER POUCH COINTAINING GOLD COINS-PROBABLY
USED TO ESTABLISH STAUS-GOLD AND GARNET CLOISONN MILLEFIORI
GLASS-THE LID WAS PROBABLY MADE OF WHALE BONE-TWINNED IMAGES OF A
BIRD OF PREY SWOOOPING ON SOMTHING SIMILAR TO A DUCK BIRD- MAN
STANDING HEROICALLY BETWEEN TWO BEASTS
METALWORKS
ANGLO-SAXONHINGED CLASP FROM THE SUTTON HOO SHIP BURIAL IN
SUFFOLK, EGNLAND 7TH CENTURY AD
-CURVED GOLD SHOULDERS CLASPS-GOLD, GARNET CLOISONN MILLEFIORI
AND BLUE GLASS-GEMOETRIC STEPPED CELL WORK-FOUR CURVED ENDS WITH
TWO ENTWINEDBOARS-PROBABLY A SIMBOL OF FEROCITY
METALWORKS
VIKINGANIMAL HEAD POST FROM VIKING SHIP BURIAL, OSEBERG, NORWAY,
9TH CENTURY
-ABSTRACT ANIMAL FORMS-CARVED-GEOMETRIC ORNAMENTS-CREATED FOR A
NOBLE WOMAN DIED IN 823-CARRIED IN RELIGIOUS PROCESSIONS
METALWORKS
OTTONIANDOORS OF BISHOP BERNWAR (HILDESHEIM CATHEDRAL) FINISHED
ON 1015 AD
-BRONZE-DIVIDED IN FIELS-CARVED MEDIUM RELIEVE-SIMILAR TO ROMAN
(OR BYZANTINE)-BIBLICAL SCENES -LEFT GENESIS-RIGHT LIVE OF
CHRIST
METALWORKS
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BRITISH ISLES HIBERNO-SAXON ARTTHE BOOK OF DURROW 680
AD-DECORATION AS JEWERY AND TEXTILE-GEOMETRIC-VEGETATION-LIVED
COLORS-NO NATURALISTIC REPRESENTATION
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BRITISH ISLES HIBERNO-SAXON ARTLINDISFARNE GOSPEL BOOK, 7TH
CENTURY AD
-GEOMETRIC SCENES-LIFE COLURS-MORE FIGURATIVE-4 HUMAN GOSPELS
WITH HIS TETRAMORFS SIMBOL-MORE NATURALISTIC-LITTLE REPRESENTATION
OF VOLUM
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BRITISH ISLES HIBERNO-SAXON ARTTHE BOOK OF KELLS 8TH CENTURY
AD
-REPRESENTATION OF VOLUM WITH LINES-LIFE COLOURS-MOORE SIMILAR
TO CAROLINGIAN ART-HUMAN FIGURE ENVOLVED ON GEOMETRIC
SCENES-SYMBOLISM
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CAROLINGIANCORONATION GOSPELS 9TH CENTURY AD
-CULTURAL RENOVATIOM-SCRIPTORIUM-ILUSTRATION SCENES-MORE
NATURALISTIC STYLE-VOLUM REPRESENTED BY COLOUR (NOT LINE)-SPACES ON
BACKGROUND -LIGHTS AND SHADOWS-ICONICISM
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CAROLINGIANEBBO GOSPELS 9TH CENTURY AD SAINT MATTHEW
-ILLUSIONISTIC STYLE LANDSCAPE-ENERGETIC, STREAKY STYLE-LESS
LIVED COLOURS-FIGURE IN NERVOUS AND AGITATED POSES.
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CAROLINGIANUTRECH PSALTER 9TH CENTURY AD
-MONASTERY SAINT PETER (NEAR REIMS)-ARCHIBISHOP EBBO AS EBBO
GOSPELS-INFLUENCED BY SAINT MATTHEW OF EBBO GOSPELS-PEN
ILLUSTRATIONS-OUTLINE DRAWINGS-SKETCHED LANDSCAPES -DIFFERENT
EPISODIES IN ONE ILLUSTRATION
