GAH Flashcards

Question

Naumburg Cathedral

Answer 1

Naumberg, Germany, 1242 -choir has preserved coloration Naumberg Master: -Crucifixion: -west choir screen (1249-1255) -emotional pathos of the crucified Christ and the mourning Virgin and Saint John are characteristic of German medieval sculpture -Statues of the Donors in the west choir: -painted limestone -period costumes and individualized features of these donor statues give the impression that they posed for the Naumburg Master, but they lived long before the sculptor's time -Ekkehard and Uta: -statues in the west choir the donors -painted limestone, Ekkehard 6’ 2” high

Answer 2

-Strasbourg Cathedral, Strasbourg, France,1230 -tympanum of the left doorway of the south transept

Answer 3

-Bamberg Cathedral, Germany, 1235–1240 -statue in the east choir -sandstone, 7’ 9” high

Answer 4

-the Rhineland, Germany, 1300–1325 -painted wood, 2’ 10 1/2” high -Rheinisches Landemuseum, Bonn.

Answer 5

-Cologne, Germany, begun 1248 -Gerhard of Cologne, choir completed 1322. -nave, facade, and towers completed 1880

Answer 6

Nicholas of Verdun 1180–1220 Cologne Cathedral -gold, silver gilt, bronze gilt, gems, pearls and enamel, 1.70×1.80 m, with later additions Adoration of the Magi & Crucifixion: -gold, c. 1198

Answer 7

Nicholas of Verdun Austria 1181, refashioned after 1330 -Gilded copper and enamel in wooden frames, 3’ 6 3/4” high. -Stiftsmuseum, Klosterneuburg (originally the pulpit of the Benedictine Abbey in Klosterneuburg near Vienna) -Signed by the Mosan goldsmith Nicholas of Verdun -Made for the provost Wernher of the Augustinian canons of Klosterneuberg in Austria -The central register is inscribed sub gratia and shows the events of the New Testament, from the Annunciation to Pentecost and the Second Coming of Christ at the Last Judgement -The registers above and below bear scenes related in theme and content to those of the New Testament, but from the periods before and after the revelation of the Law to Moses, ante legem and sub lege respectively -The Adoration of the Magi, for example, is attached to the Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek, ante legem, and to the Queen of Sheba before Solomon, sub lege, so that royal figures are shown paying tribute or presenting gifts -The program is described by the inscriptions surrounding the scenes, thus forming a sermon in pictures YEAR 1200 STYLE*

Answer 8

The study of symbolic representation, especially of the origin and meaning of Scripture types In medieval typology, an argument is made for the unity of the Old and New Testaments. Two scenes from the Old Testament ("types") are often shown to prefigure (i.e., to predict or foreshadow) scenes from the New Testament (called the "antitypes"). Typically, one OT scene will be from the time before Moses (ante legem), and the other from the the time after Moses (sub lege).

Answer 9

Nicholas of Verdun -1181 -Klosterneuburg Abbey Sacrifice of Issac Crossing the Red Sea Queen of Sheba before Solomon Resurrection of Christ: -An unfinished Resurrection was found on the back of one of the other panels; the artist evidently decided to opt for something less traditional

Answer 10

-The Symmachi Panel -circa 400 -Rome -Carved elephant ivory -A priestess, standing beneath an oak tree and attended by a small girl, is preparing to sprinkle the contents of the bowl in her left hand on to the altar in front of her -At the top of the panel is the inscription 'SYMMACHORUM', referring to the Roman Symmachi family -The panel probably partly owes its survival to having been incorporated into an early 13th-century reliquary shrine at the abbey of Montier-en-Der in France, where it remained until the French Revolution

Answer 11

-Villard de Honnecourt -Vaucelles Plan, -1215-1240 -Ink drawing on parchment. -Captions by a later hand (Paris, BN)