Igbo Culture Flashcards
*Roped Water Pot on Stand
Igbo Culture, Medieval African
Complex item the neck and bottom were cast separately. The ropes were also casted separately.
*Head of a Queen, Life, Nigeria
Medieval African
Yoruba Culture
Calm in the face of leadership. Hair is elaborate and ornamentation shows how wathy the person is
*Great Mosque, early 20th century rebuilding in the style of the 12th or 13th century original structure, medieval and modern african.
(Malian Kingdom, Islamic)
*Bet Giorgis (the church of st. George)
(Medieval African, Zagwe Kingdom)
The rock has been hallowed out to serve a christian population.
Early Middle Ages
Migration Erra
Wide scale of groups from modern Sweden and Denmarfesk
Ships during the migration period
Used for vogages (Obvi) Used to transport armies and product. Used to transfer dead heroes and the “goods” that they need in the afterlife.
*Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
- 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
*Helmet, Sutton Hoo Burial
Migration Period, (100 objects) Sutton Hoo
A cerimonial Object. is not for use more for honoring
During the Migration Period people were trading with each other
Offa mimic the coins of Constantin the 6th
*Gold Dinar, minted under Offa inscription reads “There is no God nut Allah alone, Offa Rex” King Offa
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)
*Symbol of the Evangelist Matthew, Gospel Book of Durrow, Iona
- Early Medieval Europe Europe
- flatness/geometric form
- Seeing the extension of style over time
*Book of the Kells
n.a
*Page with Beginning of Gospel of Matthew
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
Evangelist Matthew
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
Symbol of the Evangelist Matthew
Never not to it?
Incarnation page (The books of Kells)
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
Equestrian Portrait of a Carolingian Emperor
9th century patron unknown, bronze, Carolingian Period
Palatine Chapel Aachen Germany VS *San Vitale Ravenna early Byzantine
Palatine has an apse
San also has an apse -offset entryway Churches are linked to palaces through architecture
Palatine Chapel Aachen Germany
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
Torhalle, Lorsch
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
Page with Matthew the Evangelist
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
St. Gall Monastery Plan
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
christ Blessing Otto II and Theophano
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
Abbey Chrusch of St Michael
Ottonian Empire
The interior windows are like the early Christian churches
Bronze Doors with OT and NT scences
Ottonian Abbot Bernward
The scene is going down and then upwards and then original and solution next to it
Adam and Eve teaching
