Early Europe Flashcards
Catacomb of Priscilla
Fresco- easier than mosaic, cheaper
Santa Sabina DATE
422-432 CE
Use of spolia
Vienna Genesis
ESSAY
Rebecca and Eliezar at the wall and Jacob Wrestling the Angel Early Byzantine Europe- 6th century Illuminated manuscript Painted vellum First surviving illustration of stories of Genesis Motifs from classical: contrapposto, foreshortening, shadowing, perspective References ancient world Rebecca- water goddess Jacob- Roman style bridge Painted silver ink, now black Purple parchment=royalty Vellum- expensive
San Vitale
PLAN
Round center
Hagia Sofia
Pendentive- triangle piece of masonry w dome on one side, other sides channel weight
Translates to holy wisdom
Merovingian looped fibula
Garment clasps
Virgin and Child bt St Theodore and George
DATE
6th or 7th century CE
Lindisfarne gospels
Oldest surviving manuscript of bible in English
Horrovaccui
Great mosque
PLAN
Square
Pyxis of al-Mughira
Ivory
Container for expensive aromatics
Church of Saints-Foy
Romanesque portal
LAST JUDGEMENT: tympanum
Sainte-Foy: reliquary figure
Compared to reliquary figure AFRICA
protect ashes of dead
Bayeux tapestry
Tells story of Williams conquest of England at the battle of Hastings
Chartres Cathedral
Gothic style
Flying buttress- stone arch supporting roof, travel down outside building
Bibles moralisees
Moralized bible
Left: mother to the king
Top right: king Louis IX
Bottom: older monk and younger scribe
Rottgen Pieta
Christ emaciated
Horror of crucifixion
Arena chapel
DATE
1303 CE
built to atone for sin of usury
Last judgement
Fresco
Christ as a judge
Coming to end of the world
Golden haggadah
Story of Jewish exodus from Egypt under Moses
Alhambra
PLAN
Elaborate
Annunciation triptych
Left: middle class kneeling Right: Joseph in carpentry shop Center: annunciation
Pazzi chapel
ARTIST
Filippo Brunelleschi
Arnolfini portrait
ARTIST
Jan van Eyck
David
ARTIST
Donatello
First large bronze nude
Palazzo rucellai
ARTIST
Leon Batista Alberti
Pilasters: flat columns on wall
Madonna and child with two angels
ARTIST and DATE
Fra Filippo Lippi
1465 CE
Birth of Venus
ESSAY
Sandro Botticelli 1484-1486 CE Tempera on canvas Venus father cronos casts his genitals into the sea which Venus is born Based on court poem by Poliziano Emerges fully grown from sea foam Roses created at same time, represents pain in beauty and love Figures float Pale colors Unrealistic landscape Medici commission
Last supper
Moment when Jesus says “one of you will betray me”
Beaker with ibex motifs
Burials
Repouse
Hammered from behind
Great serpent mound
Effigy- 3D representation
Malangan mask
Dismissing dead
Great stupa
Resting Place for religious object
Tarashicomi
Plum blossoms
Great wave
Katzushiku Hocusi
Baptistery
Horrorvaccui
