Barron's: Chapter 10 - Early Medieval Art Flashcards
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Time Period: 450-1050
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- Merovingian Art: 481-714, France
- Hiberno-Saxon Art: 6th-8th centuries, British Isles
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Essential Knowledge
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- There is no uniform medieval style. some periods revive ancient classicism, others use geometric and natural designs
- Medieval artists are influenced by contemporaries in other parts of Europe, as well as ancient traditions
- Learning was centered on specific fields that were transmitted throughout Europe through trade, pilgrimage, and military activity
- Medieval architecture is mostly religious
- Medieval painting and sculpture avoids naturalistic depictions
- At times medieval religious will reject images
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Looped fibulae
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- mid-sixth century
- silver gilt with semiprecious stones, inlays of garnets and other stones
- Cabinet des Medailles, Paris
- Hiberno-Saxon Art
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The Book of Lindisfarne
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- c. 700
- illuminated manuscript, ink, pigments, and gold on vellum
- British Library, London
- Merovingian Art
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animal style
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- a medieval art form in which animals are depicted in a stylized and often complicated pattern, usually seen fighting one another
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chasing
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- to ornament metal by indenting into a surface with a hammer
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cloissone
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- enamelwork in which colored areas are separated by thin bands of metal, usually gold or bronze
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codex
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- a manuscript book
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colophon
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- 1) a commentary on the end panel of a Chinese scroll
- 2) an inscription at the end of a manuscript containing relevant information on its publication
10
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fibula
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- a clasp used to fasten garments
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gospels
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- the first four books of the New Testament that chronicle the life of Jesus Christ
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horror vacui
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- a type of artwork in which the entire surface is filled with objects, people, designs, and ornaments in a crowded, sometimes congested way
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parchment
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- a writing surface made from animal skins; particularly fine parchment made of calf skin is called vellum
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scriptorium
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- a place in a monastery were monks wrote manuscripts
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zoomorphic
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- having elements of animal shapes
