ch.16 & 17 Early Medieval & Romanesque Europe

Question 1

Lindisfarne Gospels: (St.Matthew page, cross-carpet page, St.Luke portrait page, St. Luke incipit page)

Answer 1

• Early Medieval Europe
• Lindisfarne, England
• illuminated manuscript, ink, pigments, and gold on vellum
• Gospels - books on life of Jesus
• Luke, Ox symbol
• carpet page - interlacing, snakes, cross
• portrait page - Hagia Luke is writing
• there is no Greek influence, no perspective, isolated:unaffected by humanism

Question 2

Merovingian Looped Fibulae

Answer 2

• Early Medieval Europe
• silver gilt worked in filigree inlaid with garnets and other stones
• Merovingians - Frank ruling family
• fibulae - brooch (robe pinning)
• art as a status symbol
• portable
• animals (fish and birds with garnet eyes)
• interlacing

Question 3

Church of Sainte-Foy (Architecture)

Answer 3

• Romanesque Europe
• Conques, France
• stone architecture
• built during the crusades
• made for pilgrimages
• Sainte Foy’s stolen bones - relic
• stone barrel vault
• thick walls and small windows
• 2 frontal towers
• basilica plan with intersecting nave

Question 4

Church of Sainte-Foy (Reliquary)

Answer 4

• relics were stolen bones
• containers head is spolia
• accumulated gifts of gold and precious stones
• provides funding for town
• carried around on holiday, important part of town life

Question 5

Church of Sainte-Foy (Tympanum)

Answer 5

• carving over the door
• depicts the last judgement
• encourages church time
• center is Jesus, no perspective
• story through symbols
• size is power
• right is heaven, left is hell (constant)
• heaven and hell look like buildings
• the devil is center bottom

Question 6

Bayeux Tapestry

Answer 6

• Romanesque Europe
• embroided yarn on linen
• 230ft long
• non-religious
• shows the Norman invasion of England
• propaganda for the Normans
• First Meal and Cavalry Attack
• Halley’s comet