Monuments Flashcards
Good Shepherd and Adaam and Eve
- Medium: fresco
- Location: Christian house church, Dura Europos, Syria
- Century: 3rd
- Shows jesus in nature as a shepherd/magition
- ambiguous imagry suited early christianity well
- over baptizmal font, jesus saves people/rebirth
- anti classical style.
Good Shepherd, orants, and Story of Jonah
- Medium: fresco
- Location: Catacomb of Saints Peter and Marcellinus, Rome
- Century: 4th
- Shows Jesus as good shepherd
- iconic/naritive images
- these images tell us how the room was used, funeral rituals
- Jonah dead for 3 days like jesus
- anti classical/classical hybrid style
Christ as Helios the sun god(?)
- Medium: mosaic
- Location: Tomb of the julii, Vatican necropolis, Rome
- Century: 3rd
- Probably Jesus as Helios
- Sun crown symbolizes salvation
Three Shepherds and Vine Harvest sarcophagus
Medium: marble
Century: 3rd
Funural thing
puti are fat cupid babies
Grape vines used to represent Bachis but now represent the Eucharist.
Old st Peter’s basilica and plan
- Location: Rome
- Century: 4th
- Patron: Emperor Constantine
- built on the top of where St Peter was crucified, marked turning point of Christianity’s prominance.
- Lavish interior decoration, exterior decoration plain
Mausoleum of Costanza, and plan
- Location: Rome
- Century: 4th
- Patron: Costanza/ imperial family
- burial site for Costanza, many royal families had buildings like these made for them.
Harvesting grapes
- Locatition: Rome/ Masusoleum of Costanza
- Patron: Costanza/ imperial family
- Century: 4th
- Medium: Mosaic
- Symbolizes the eucharist
Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
- Medium: marble
- Century: 4th
- Patron: Junius Bassus
- Christianity gaining power, jesus as a law maker.
- Shows christianity’s triomph over pagonism political propaganda
- Shows Bassus’s piety trying to be like jesus.
Hagia Sophia (interior, exterior, and plan)
Location: Instanbul, Turkey
Century: 6th
Patron: Emperor Justinian
Built to rival all other churches, political propaganda, symbol of power
Double shell construction
Celebrates shared power between church and state
Intended to make people feel elivated, church is link between heaven and earth
Christ Pantokrator
Medium: Tempera/gold on wood panel
Location: Monastery of St Catherine, Mt Sinai, Egypt
Century: early 8th
Power image of Jesus
Uses gold to symbolyze divinity and eterinity
Timeless image made for religious devotion/ reflection
Virgin and Child Enthroned with Angels and Saints
Medium: encaustic and gold on wood panel
Centurey: 7th
Location: Monastery of St Catherine, Mt Sinai, Egypt
classical/anti-classical hybrid
symbolic devotional image
gold symbolizes richness/power
Author Page with Man of Matthew, Book of Durrow
Medium: ink and pigments on animal skin parchment
Providence: Ireland
Century: 7th
Style: anti classical, ornimental, geometrical shapes
Emphasis on spiritual rather than physical
Carpet Page with Cross, Lindisfarne Gospels
Medium: ink and pigments on animal skin parchment
Providence: Northumbri (England)
Century: 7th
Pure ornimant, no figures
edge to edge design
labor intensive
Initial page with Chi Rho, Book of Kells
Medium: Ink and pigments on animal skin paarchment
Provenance: Scotland
Century: early 9th
Came after carpet page, decorated inicpit
Images intigrated into design
cats/mice represent good vs evil
Acts of Devotion
Charlemangne’s palace complex
Location: Aachen, Germany
Patron: Charlemagne
Century: 8th/9th (begun 794)
Dual function: Represents the kingom of heaven/ shows Charlemangne’s Earthly kingdom
Borrows from different empires
Germanic, Strong pillars. Roman, colums arcade galaries. Byzentyne, Central plan
Fountain of Life, Godescale
Medium: Ink and pgment on parchment
Century: 8th
advertised Charlemagne’s piety
Connected him to elit ranks of the church
Head of church and state
St Matthew from the coronation gospels
Medium: Pigments on parchement
Century: 9th
Borrows authority from past rulers
St. Mark from the Ebbo Gospels
Medium: pigments on parchment
Century 9th
King David and his Musicians and the Presentation of the Bible to Charles the bald from the vivian Bible
Eqeustrian Statue of charles the bald
Medium Brronze
Century 9th
Reliquary for sandal of st andrew
Medium gilt silver cloisonne enamel pearls gems
Location: Cathedral of trier Germany
Patron: Bishop Egbert of trier
Century 10th
Reliquary statue of st foy
medium: Gold and prcious gems
Location: abbey church of st foy France
Century 9th
Great Mosque
Location :Cordoba Spain
Century 8th-10th
Quran Manuscript page
Medium ink on parchment
Location Spain
Century 13th-14th
