Romanesque 2
Chapter 15 part 2
Earliest known
illustrated history
on the English
This page deals
with King Henry
I (ruled from
1100-35)
Here the king is
visited 3
consecutive
nights by
Farmers,
knights, and
abbots to
demand tax
relief
Artist: John of Worcester
Title: Page with The Dream of Henry I (Those Who Work; Those Who Fight;
Those Who Pray), Worcester Chronicle Medium: Ink and tempera on vellum He then
Size: each page 12¾ X 9⅜”
promises God
Date: c. 1140
he will try to
make them stop
Title: The Mouth of Hell, Winchester Psalter
Medium: Ink and tempera on vellum
Size: 12 ¾ X 9⅛" (32.5 X 23 cm)
Date: c. 1150
Produced at the renowned scriptorium in
Winchester
The Gaping Jaws of Hell
“Here is hell and the angels who are
locking the doors”
Frame represents door
Angel locks red door plate
Frenzy of creatures and tortured people
in the center
Reminders to kings and clergy their souls
are still vulnerable
Title: Bishop Odo Blessing the Feast, the
Bayeux Tapestry
Medium: Norman–Anglo-Saxon embroidery,
linen with wool
Size: height 20" (50.8 cm)
Date: c. 1066–82
•1.6 by 224.3 ft) long embroidered cloth
•Norman conquest of England as well as
the events of the invasion itself
•The tapestry is annotated in Latin.
commissioned and created by Queen Matilda, William the Conqueror's wife, as "La
Tapisserie de la Reine Mathilde" (Tapestry of Queen Matilda).
However, scholarly analysis in the 20th century shows it probably was commissioned by
William's half brother, Bishop Odo.
1) three of the bishop's followers mentioned in Domesday Book appear on the tapestry;
2) it was found in Bayeux Cathedral, built by Odo
3) it may have been commissioned at the same time as the cathedral's construction in
the 1070s,
Title: Detail, Bishop Odo Blessing Feast,
the Bayeux Tapestry
Medium: Norman–Anglo-Saxon
embroidery, linen with wool
Size: height 20" (50.8 cm)
Date: c. 1066–82
Shows Odo blessing the Feast
on the Eve of battle
Made by needle and thread in a
cross stitching pattern
Has 3 registers
Animals, dead soldiers, birds,
musical instruments adorn the
bottom registers
One of the most
interesting sights
in the Basilica of
St. Ambrose is St.
Ambrose himself!
He is on display in
the crypt,. His
skeleton is glazed
with a protective
coating and
dressed in full
bishop's finery
Title: Nave, Church of Sant’Ambrogio, Milan
Date: Begun 1080; vaulted after an earthquake in 1117
Title: Tomb cover with effigy of Rudolf of Swabia
Medium: Bronze with niello
Size: approx. 6'5½ X 2'2½" (1.97 X 0.68 m)
Date: c. 1080
Bronze with niello
Tomb effigies- portrait of the dead
Oldest known bronze tomb effigy
King Rudolph of Swabia, sided with the pope against
Henry IV
Dies in battle in 1080
Holds scepter and cross surmounted and Christian
kingship
Title: Facsimile frontispiece with
Hildegard and Volmar, Liber Scivias
Date: 1165–75
Hildegard, women writer and had
divine visions
She surmounted the women role in
medieval society
she founded an abbey
Monk named Volmar decided to
record her visions in a book
Pictures shows her getting a vision
in the form of fire from above,
monk waits to record her words
Also wrote on topics of science
and medicine
Artist: The Nun Guda
Title: Page with self-portrait of the nun Guda,
Book of Homilies
Medium: Ink on parchment
Size: n/a
Date: Early 12th century
Nun Guda, painter and scribe
Makes a self-portrait out of a D
Says “ Guda, the sinful woman, wrote
and illuminated this book”
Earliest women signature on a book
Soft, subtle, and sassy
Title: Cathedral Complex, Pisa
Date: Cathedral, begun 1063; Baptistry, begun 1153; Campanile, begun 1174; Campo Santo, 13th
century
Artist: Wiligelmus
Title: Creation and Fall, West Façade, Modena Cathedral
Size: Height approx. 3' (92 cm)
Date: Building begun 1099; sculpture c. 1099–1100