Igbo Culture

Question 1

*Roped Water Pot on Stand

Answer 1

Igbo Culture, Medieval African

Complex item the neck and bottom were cast separately. The ropes were also casted separately.

Question 2

*Head of a Queen, Life, Nigeria

Answer 2

Medieval African
Yoruba Culture
Calm in the face of leadership. Hair is elaborate and ornamentation shows how wathy the person is

Question 3

*Great Mosque, early 20th century rebuilding in the style of the 12th or 13th century original structure, medieval and modern african.

Answer 3

(Malian Kingdom, Islamic)

Question 4

*Bet Giorgis (the church of st. George)

Answer 4

(Medieval African, Zagwe Kingdom)

The rock has been hallowed out to serve a christian population.

Question 5

Early Middle Ages

Migration Erra

Answer 5

Wide scale of groups from modern Sweden and Denmarfesk

Question 6

Ships during the migration period

Answer 6

Used for vogages (Obvi) Used to transport armies and product. Used to transfer dead heroes and the “goods” that they need in the afterlife.

Question 7

*Sutton Hoo Ship Burial

Answer 7

• Migration Period (Sutton Hoo)
• Discovered in southern UK in 1939
• Burial of a great warrior in his ship
• Items tell of his conquering with all of the materials that he would need in his afterlife (armor, gold coins, shields) These items shows that they were trading with other nations
• symbolic

Question 8

*Helmet, Sutton Hoo Burial

Answer 8

Migration Period, (100 objects) Sutton Hoo

A cerimonial Object. is not for use more for honoring

Question 9

During the Migration Period people were trading with each other

Answer 9

Offa mimic the coins of Constantin the 6th

Question 10

*Gold Dinar, minted under Offa inscription reads “There is no God nut Allah alone, Offa Rex” King Offa

Answer 10

Mixed of cultures into political way (through coin)

People from other places uses his coins (projecting his power outward as well as in his city)

Question 11

*Symbol of the Evangelist Matthew, Gospel Book of Durrow, Iona

Answer 11

• Early Medieval Europe Europe
• flatness/geometric form
• Seeing the extension of style over time

Question 12

*Book of the Kells

Answer 12

n.a

Question 13

*Page with Beginning of Gospel of Matthew

Answer 13

Early Western Medieval (Celtic)
The text is abstracted
Matthew is writing the Gospel
Angle is right above Matthew inspiring him to write the gospel. Jesus Christ telling him what to write. The Close book represents the old religion
They don’t value perspective and you can tell by the stool as well as the leg. It was purposely done

Question 14

Evangelist Matthew

Answer 14

Early Western Medieval (Celtic)
-Named in inscription
Shown seated on a stool writing his text
-More classical form to it
-can't set the image in a setting

Question 15

Symbol of the Evangelist Matthew

Answer 15

Never not to it?

Question 16

Incarnation page (The books of Kells)

Answer 16

Early Western Medieval (Celtic)

• This page starts the section of the Bible (here the gospel of Matthew) Dealing with Christ’s incarnation (becoming human) and Maturity (birth) it features the Chi-Rho o
• Very Detailed

Question 17

Equestrian Portrait of a Carolingian Emperor

Answer 17

9th century patron unknown, bronze, Carolingian Period

Question 18

Palatine Chapel Aachen Germany VS *San Vitale Ravenna early Byzantine

Answer 18

Palatine has an apse

San also has an apse -offset entryway Churches are linked to palaces through architecture

Question 19

Palatine Chapel Aachen Germany

Answer 19

Carolingian

Connecting church and sate. Connected in one complex. Audience hall where people gathered

Compared to *San Vitale Ravenna early Byzantine They were looking to the past to create the Palatine Chapel

*Throne at West (looks into Apse) You can see what was going on in the city from the Apse

Question 20

Torhalle, Lorsch

Answer 20

Charlemagne, Carolingian

Two small staricases from with side that takes people up
A place for him to stay, a place to look over his people

Uses classical order corinthian

Question 21

Page with Matthew the Evangelist

Answer 21

Carolingian Ebbo Gospels
Intensity of lines is also parallel to the background (a lot of energy) Different compared to the other Matthew images
Letter forms are easier to read compared to earlier Gospels

Question 22

St. Gall Monastery Plan

Answer 22

Carolingian. At the heart of the monastery is sheltered from the outside world.
The top half has more holy stuff while the bottom has more of the original stuff

Question 23

christ Blessing Otto II and Theophano

Answer 23

Otto surrounded by personifications of the Provinces

The way that they image themselves They look back to CHristian past and Constantine neighbors

They give themselves over to constantine culture
The son of the Otto the empire is married to the Constantine empire

Hands on either side blessing Otto and Visantine princes. He is bigger in statue to show importance that he is more powerful

Question 24

Abbey Chrusch of St Michael

Answer 24

Ottonian Empire

The interior windows are like the early Christian churches

Question 25

Bronze Doors with OT and NT scences

Answer 25

Ottonian Abbot Bernward

The scene is going down and then upwards and then original and solution next to it

Adam and Eve teaching