arly Medieval Art

5th – 10th CenturySlides # 16-18

Terminology

Nomads –Relics - Carolingian -

Characteristics• Time period of nomadic peoples (a nomad is someone who is always travelling).• Since people travelled small portable artworks were created• Europe has divided into a variety of small kingdoms• There are numerous invasions of previously Romanized areas by barbarian peoples• Pockets of education are maintained by remaining monasteries / religious communities

Interior of the Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne. (786-805) Aachen, Germany

Interior of the Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne. (786-805) Aachen, Germany

Charlemagne collected a variety of relics during his lifetime, which are still kept in Aachen Cathedral. The four most important are impressive indeed: • the cloak of the Blessed Virgin;• the swaddling-clothes of the Infant Jesus;• the loin-cloth worn by Christ on the Cross; and • the cloth on which lay the head of St. John the Baptist after his beheading.

called the "Father of Europe", united

most of Western Europe for the first time since the Roman Empire.

History:-commissioned by Charlemagne who was the First Holy Roman Emperor-designed by Odo of Metz

Purpose:-personal chapel-it became a place visited by many pilgrims for the relics

Style & Forms of Decoration:-this style of architecture is called Carolingian-Odo of Metz based his design on the Church San Vitale-striped arches-marble floor (imported purple marble)-golden mosaics

Architectural Feature:-octagon floor plan-cupola (31 meters above the pavement)

16. Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne. (786-805) Aachen, Germany

History:-at an elevation of 1,460 metres (4,790 ft), -It is the highest fortress in the region.

Purpose:-began as a watch tower-then for the accommodations for the military-never intended as a residence for nobles

Style & Forms of Decoration:-Build of stone and masonary (larger stones on the bottom were used to make impenetrable to invaders-the four cylindrical towers and wall added later

17. Rocca Calascio. (10th century) Abruzzo, Italy

What is this?

http://www.bl.uk/turning-the-pages/?id=cb4c06b9-02f4-49af-80ce-540836464a46&type=book

Artists:-painted by monks (hand painted)

Purpose:-to preserve religious teachings -pages from a book (Bible)

Style:-Calligraphic writing-Celtic designs

Medium:-Paintings made on vellum (calfskin) or parchment (calfskin)

Symbolism in the Work:-X-P monogram of Christ -Also the symbol of a warrior’s cross and Constantine’s cross

18. X-P Chi-Rho page from the Lindisfarne Gospel Book. (between 689-721) Manuscript.

Matthew - EagleMark – Winged LionLuke - OxJohn - Angel

Purpose:-to preserve religious teachings -pages from a book (Bible)

Style:-Calligraphic writing-Celtic designs

Medium:Paintings made on vellum (calfskin) or parchment

19. Symbols of the Four Evangelists page from the Book of Kells. (c. 800) Manuscript.

http://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/home/index.php?DRIS_ID=MS58_003v

• Look at the next slides of the interior of the Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne and identify

Clements

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Douglas (Natalie)

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