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Chapter 16: Europe after the Fall of Rome, Early Medieval Art in the WestText pages 420-445

Name three traditions which fused to create early medieval society in Western Europe:1.

2.

3.

Art of the Warrior LordsDefine or identify the following terms:

Cloisonné:

Fibula:

Viking:

1. Briefly describe the style decoration of the Merovingian fibula shown in fig 16-1:

2. What was found at Sutton Hoo, and what was its importance?

3. Describe the style of the decoration on the panel from Urnes (fig 16-4) and the Viking ship found near Oseberg Norway (fig 16-3):

Hiberno-Saxon Art

Define or identify the following terms:

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Hiberno-Saxon:

Mozarabic:

Scriptorium:

1. What can explain the differences in the two pages from the Lindesfarne Gospel illuminate on figs 16-6- and 16-7?

2. List three characteristics of the style utilized on the chi-roh-iota page from the Book of Kells (fig 16-8) a.

b.

c.3. What design shown on the Muiredach cross identifies it as Celtic? Draw this in the space below:

Carolingian Art

Define or identify the following terms:

Cloister:

Crossing:

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Module:

Monastery:

Westwork:

1. What was the significance of Charlemagne being crowned in Rome in the year 800?

a. What effect did that have on the art of Northern Europe?

2. List three ways in which the artist of the Gospel Book of Archbishop Ebbo of Reims (fig 16-13) has modified the style found in the Gospel Book of Charlemagne?

a.

b.

c.

Which manuscript is most closely related to the style of the Ultrecht Psalter (fig 16-14)? And in what way?

3. The Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne resembles the church of ________________________ in Ravenna, but is distinguished by:

a.

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b.

4. Although the church of the monastery of St. Gall is a three-aisled basilica, it differs from its Early Christian prototypes in the following ways:

a.

b.

c.

What is the significance of its modular construction?

Ottonian Art

Define or identify the following terms:

Bishop Bernward:

Reliquary:

1. List two features of the church of Saint Cyriakus of Gernrode that would be important for later medieval architecture:

a.

b.

2. Describe the alternate-support system; you may sketch it in the space below:

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3. The style of the figures on the bronze doors at St. Michael’s at Hildesheim (fig 16-24) probably derives from manuscript illumination of the period. In what major way does it differ from its prototypes?

4. Name a possible source for the Triumphal Column in Saint Michael’s at Hildesheim (fig 16-25):

5. List three features of the Gero crucifix (fig 16-26) that contribute to the expression of suffering:a.

b.

c.

6. What two stylistic features seen in the Lectionary of Henry II (fig 16-28) were not apparent in earlier Carolingian illumination?

a.

b.

7. Looking Carefully and Describing

Hiberno-Saxon artists worked in complex flat patterns, but if you look very carefully you will see that the way they organized their patterns was very different. Write at least a page comparing the Carpet page from the Lindesfarne Gospels (fig 16-6 and Frontispiece of Chapter 16) and the Chi-rho-iota page from the Book of Kells (fig 16-8). Look first at the underlying structure of each page. What large forms do you see, what symmetry and asymmetry? What sort of frame is used? Which forms are based on vertical and horizontal lines, which on diagonals, which on curves? Then start to look within the major forms and between them. What do you see? How are these forms composed? Are they different in two pages? Do you see small heads and feet or only abstract interlace? Use a magnifying glass (I have one available in class), apply it to the pages. Keep looking, closer and closer and describe what you see. Then write down the feelings you might have if you had to create such a work from the ground (or rather parchment) up.

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Fig 16-6 Carpet Page from Lindesfarne Gospels

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Fig 16-8 chi-rho-iota page from the Book of Kells

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Summary of Early Medieval Art in the West

Using the timeline on page 445 of the text, enter the approximate dates for the following periods. Then fill in the chart as much as you can from memory; check your answers against the text and then complete the chart.

Merovingian ________to________

Carolingian ________to________

Ottonian ________to________

Typical examples Stylistic Characteristics Significant Historical People, Events, Ideas, Etc.

Merivingian/Germanic

Viking

Hiberno-Saxon

Carolingian Illuminations

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Summary of Early Medieval Art in the West Continued

Typical examples Stylistic Characteristics Significant Historical People, Events, Ideas, Etc.

Carolingian Architecture

Ottonian Architecture

Ottonian Sculpture

Ottonian Illumination

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Map 16-1Locate and mark/circle the items below on the map:

Aachen Lindisfarne Reichenau Gernrode Lorsch

Saint Gall Durrow Kells Sutton Hoo Urnes

Hildesheim