Test 3 Flashcards
Name: Constantine Deconstructed
Period: Early Christian
Significance: Constantine’s portraits revive the Augustan image of an eternally youthful ruler. fragment of an enthroned ruler
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Name: The Good Shepard, the story of Joah and orants
Period: Early Christian
Significance: Celiling in a Roman catacomb, similar to the painted caults of Ostian homes, subjects form the Hebrew scriptures and the New Testament
Name:Battle of Romans and barbarians (Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus)
Period: Early Christian
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Good Shepherd Sarcophagus,
from the Catacomb of Praetextatus
Period: Early Christian
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Name: Layout of St.Peters
Period: Early Christian
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Name: Interior of Santa Costanza
Period: Early Christian
Significance: Possibly the mausoleum of Constantine’s daughter, central plan, domed interior, inspiration for Byzantine churches
Name: Masoleum of Galla Placida
Period: Early Christian, Byzantine
Significance:
- Outside not fancy, inside has fancy Tessarae Mosaics
- Mosaics have Biblical subject matter
- Symbolic of Christian Spirit, Outside doesn’t matter but inside does
Name: Christ as the Good Shepard mosaic at Galla Placidia
Period: Early Christian
Significance: naturalistic classical tradition, informal, three dimensional bulk
Name: Rebecca & Elietzer at the Wall
Period: - Early Christian, Byzantine
Significance: - Example of Kudex
- On Vellum or Parchment
- Earliest Painted manuscript
- Narrative takes place within art
- Illustrations to be read like text
Name: Woman sacrificing at an altar
Period: Early Christian
Significance: pagan ritual, banned by Theodosius, classical artistic style
Name: Saint Michael the Archangel
Period: Byzantine
Significance: modeled after a classical winged victory, seems to float in front of the architecture rather than stand on it
Name: Hagia Sophia
Period: Byzantine
Significance:
- Inspired by Pantheon, Dome
- Light was seen as mystical and spiritual so they put a lot of windows
- Had both Pendentives and Squinch
Name: San Vitale
Period: Byzantine
Significance:
- Outside plain, Inside decorative
- Complication of space inside and outside
- Pattern oriented stuff
Name: Justinian and the Attendants
Period: Romanesque
Significance:
- Mosaic
- Not about visual reality, but the narrative
- Gold became symbol for Heaven
- Most important figure is placed in middle
- Very flat, no attempt at illusionistic art
Name:Theodora and attendants
Period: Romanesque
Significance: Justinian’s wife, new aesthetic,
Name: St. Mark’s
Period: Byzantine
Significance:
- Same windows as Hagia Sophia
- Mystic light to encourage worship, same with Mosaics
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Name:- Apollinaris Amid Sheep
Period: Byzantine
Significance:- Signs of Evangelists represented
- Iconographs
- Narrative
Name: Transfiguration of Jesus
Period: Byzantine
Significance: the artist took away traces of landscape for a depthless field of gold, the prophets and disciples cast no shadows even though bathed in divine light
Name: Hosios Loukas
Period: Byzantine
Significance:
- Plain outside
- Dome like interior
- Stuff inside tells Biblical narratives
Name: David composing the Psalms
Period: Byzantine
Significance: During the Macedonian Renaissance Byzantine artists revived the classical style, portrayal of David as a Greek hero
Name: Andrei Rubylev
Period: Byzantine
Significance:
- Very flat
- Highly Stylized
- Mandala’s around head
- Icon because of Gold backgrounds
Name: Dome of the Rock
Period: Islamic Art
Significance: mark the triumph of Islam on a site sacred to Muslims, Christians and Jews, an octogon with a towering dome
Name: Sinan, Mosque fo Selim II
Period: Islamic Art
Significance: new type of mosque with a dome covered prayer hall, taller than the hagia sophia, engineering triumph
Name: Interior of Mosque of Selim
Period: Islamic Art
Significance: fusion of an octogon and a dome covered square wiht four half domes at the corners, The plan features geometric clarity and precise numerical ratios
Name: Malwiya Minaret
Period: Islamic Art
Significance: unique spiral snail shell, served to announce the presence of Islam in the Tigris Valley
Name: Taj Mahal
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Name: Pair of Merovingian looped fibulae
Period: Carolingian
Significance: migration period, pin for holding a cloak over shoulders, silver gilt worked in filigree, owned by chieftan
Name: Purse cover from the Sutton Hoo
Period: Carolingian
Significance:
- Zoomorphic
- Stylized overlaid designs
- Interlacing design almost becomes pattern like
Name: Animal Head Post
Period: Medieval, Migration Period
Significance:
- Lacertine
- Wrapping & Weaving of Design
Name: Viking Church
Period:Medieval, Migration Period
Significance:
- Beginning of Gargoyles
- Used to defend against enemies
- Looks small
- Lacertine, Interlaced, Animal quality inside
Name: Cross Inscribed Carpet Page
Period: Medieval, Migration Period
Significance:
- So heavily designed it almost pulsates
- Very intense patterning
- All books copied by Monks
Name: Chi-rho-iota (XPI) page,
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Name: High Cross of Muiredach
Period: Barbarian
Significance: going towards Christian subject matter, pilgrims knelt in front of cross, central idea-crucifixion, panels of saints, interlacing designs
Name: St. Matthew
Period: Carolingian
Significance:
- Turn to book form instead of scroll
- Byzantine influence
Name: Codex Cover
Period: Carolingian
Significance:
- Put on book, Made of metal
- Repousse
- Metalwork & Jewels influenced by Barbarian
- Filigree
- Granulation
Name: Palatine Chapel
Period: Carolingian
Significance:
- Built with Stone
- Very solid aesthetic
Name: Saint Michael’s Hildesheim
Period: Ottonian
Significance:
- Interested in interior arches
- Varied use of thick and thin arches
- Logically laid out
- Paneled Doors influenced by manuscripts
- Looked at 2D for 3D influence b/c it is authority of church
Name: Doors of St. Michaels
Period: Ottonian
Significance: Benwards doors tell the story of original sin and redemption, relief panels
Name: Annunciation of the Shepards
Period: Ottonian
Significance:
- New style b/c it is following copies by copying
- Life takes art of it’s own
Name: Otto III Enthroned
Period: Ottonian
Significance:
- Justinian influence
- Taken to extreme
Name: St. Sernin
Period: Romanesque
Significance:
- Built in square symetacism
- Round arches
- Very dark b/c of thick walls
- Follows Christian cross plan
- Revive Roman building techniques
Name: Interior of Saint Sernin
Period: Romanesque
Significance: higher the architecture the thicker the walls no windows, no light
Name: St. Etienne
Period: Romanesque
Significance: towers, pitched roof, round arches on side
Name:Sant’Ambrogio
Period: Romanesque
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Name: Baptistery of San Giovanni
Period: Romanesque
Significance:
- Rounded Arches
- Small windows
Name: Cathedral Complex
Period: Romanesque
Significance:
- Rounded Arches & Small Windows
- Square Symeticism
- Polychrome Marble
Name: Bernardus Gelduinus
Period: Romanesque
Significance:
- Has Mandala
- Byzantine-esque but more bold
Name: Pentacost and Mission of the Apostles
Period: Romanesque
Significance:
- Christ sending people out on crusades
- Christ is now the Judge
- Christ in Mandala
- Byzantine style, Very simple
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Name: Lions & Old Testament Prophet
Period: Romanesque
Significance:
- Not realistic, Calligraphic
- Jeremiah comes from Scripture which is authority
- Lion comes from Barbarian influence
- Two styles merging
Name: Cloister at St. Pierre
Period: Romanesque
Significance: historiated capitals , revived tradition of stone carving, area where monks prayed
Name: Christ in Majesty
Period: Romanesque
Significance:
- Mandala
- Compartmentalized, very organized
- Bolder Colors
- Symbols of Evangelists on his side
Name:- Moses Expounding the Law
Period: Romanesque
Significance:
- Design follows function
- Meant to communicate message
- Bold, Stylized
- Design oriented to communicate message
Name: Eadwine the Scribe
Period: Romanesque
Significance:
- Chose to paint self copying manuscripts
- New attitude of “I’m the best”
- Very organized and thought out design
Name:- Funeral Procession to Westminister
Period: Romanesque
Significance:
- Story transcribed visually
- Event is current which is a first
Name: Ambulatory & Radiating Chapels
Period: Early Gothic
Significance:
- Came up with Pointed Arch
- Large Windows
- Stained glass used to tell Biblical stories
- Mary became intercessor
Name: Jamb statues at Chartres
Period: Gothic
Significance: first sifs of a new naturalism in European sculpture
Name: Laon Cathedral
Period: Early Gothic
Significance:
- Pointed Arches
- Large Windows
- Level above gallery, Triforum & Chlorestry
Name: Interior of Laon Cathedral
Period: Early Gothic
Significance: insertion of a triforium breaks up the nave wall producing elevation
Name: Notre Dame
Period: Early Gothic
Significance:
- Mary now featured in center of depictions
- Gargoyles appear b/c of Barbarian zoomorphic influence
- Great Height, Pointed Arches, Flying Buttresses, and Stained Glass
Name: Chartres Cathedral
Period: High Gothic
Significance:
- Planned flying buttresses from beginning
- Rectangular frame rather than square
- Wanted you to think of height, connection to God
- Had lots of light due to windows
- Narrow quality
Name:Rose window at Chartres Cathedral
Period: High Gothic
Significance: intricate stained glass windows, characteristic of High Gothic
Name: Saint Chapelle
Period: High Gothic
Significance:
- 3/4 of it is windows
- Leading idea of Lux Nova
- Light thought to help connect to God
- Rassonant Style
Name: Christ
Period: High Gothic
Significance:
- Very 3D
- Not calligraphic
- Reminiscent of Roman
- Returning to realism
Name: Reims Cathedral
Period: High Gothic
Significance:
- Very busy & ornate
- Fancier and more complicated
- Statues 3D and have depth and movement
- Statues also interact with each other
Name: Annunciation and Visitation
Period: High Gothic
Significance: jamb statues at Reims, diverse style, motion
Name:Virgin and Child
Period: Late Gothic
Significance:
- People approached Mary b/c Jesus was now the judge
- S curve in the body
- Realistic depiction of life
Name: Milan Cathedral
Period: Late Gothic
Significance:
- Tracery, Very Elaborate
- Very ornate, everything is organized
- Has Quatrefoil
Pendentive
- Transition between the square building and round dome
Squinch
- When you set a dome on top of a square and fill in the corners
Kudex
Scroll cut and put into book form
vellum
- Dried calves skin for writing
Parchement
- Lamb skin for writing
Symbols for
John, Matthew, Mark, Luke
Eagle
Man
Lion
Ox
Fibulae
A decorative pin, to fasten a toga up
Lacertine
- Lizard-like
- Wrapping and weaving of design
Cloisonne
- Wired outline
Cloyster
Outdoor place where monks prayed
Futile Society
- Own land in exchange for service
- Towns between large cities
- Monasteries for education
Triforium
Level directly above gallery
Clerestory
- 4th level with windows
5 Things in Every Gothic Cathedral
- Flying Buttress
- Pointed Arches
- Height
- Large Windows
- Rose Windows
Rassonant Style
- Radiant
- Light fills whole place
Lux Nova
- New light
- Helps connect to God
- Ex: Stained glass windows
Crenulation
- Up and down aesthetic around walls
Quatrefoil
- Clover like ornament
Fan Vaulting
- Everything comes to a point, then fans out
