Early Medieval
and Romanesque Art
Chi Rho Iota page, Book of
Matthew, Book of Kells
Iona, Scotland (?)
late 8th or early 9th century.
Oxgall inks and pigments on
vellum, 9 1⁄2”w x 12 3⁄”4h
(14-1)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/upload/e/ee/KellsFol034
rChiRhoMonogram.jpeg
Gummersmark Brooch
Denmark, 6th century. Silver gilt.
Height 5 3/4”
(14-3)
http://www.ou.edu./class/ahi1113/slides/08-02.jpg
Purse Cover from the Sutton Hoo burial ship, Suffolk, England. C. 615-25.
Cloisonne plaques of gold, garnet, anda chedcked milllefiore enamel, L. 8”
British Museum, London.
http://www.ou.edu./class/ahi1113/slides/08-03-1.jpg
Detail of Purse Cover from Sutton
Hoo. Norse Hawk attacking Celtic
Duck.
http://www.ou.edu./class/ahi1113/slides/08-03-2.jpg
The Borgund Stave Church.
Borgund, Norway
c. 1125–1150
(14-11)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Borgund_stave_church.jpg
(28 January 2012)
Map of Carolingian Europe
http://www.ou.edu./class/ahi1113/slides/08-06-1.jpg
Palace Chapel of Charlemagne, Aachen, Germany. 762-805
http://www.ou.edu./class/ahi1113/slides/08-06-2.jpg
Palace Chapel of Charlemagne
(14-13)
http://www.ou.edu./class/ahi1113/slides/08-07-1.jpg
Palace Chaple of Charlemagne,
Transverse barrel-vaulted bays
http://www.ou.edu./class/ahi1113/html/ch-08-1.htm
Page with Matthew
the Evangelist,
Ebbo Gospels c. 816-40.
Ink and colors on vellum
101/4” x 83/4”
(14-18)
http://www.ou.edu./class/ahi1113/slides/08-10.jpg
Crucifixion with Angels
and Mourning Figures
Outer cover, Lindau Gospels
c. 870-80
Gold, pearls, and gems
103/8”w x 133/4”h
(14-19)
http://www.ou.edu./class/ahi1113/slides/08-11.jpg
Christ Enthroned with Saints
and Emperor Otto I
One of a series of ivory
plaques known as
the Magdeburg Ivories.
German or North Italian
c. 962-63.
Ivory plaque, 5 x 51/2”
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
NYC
http://www.ou.edu./class/ahi1113/slides/08-12.jpg
Doors of Bishop Bernward
made for the Abbey Church of
Saint Michael Cathedral Museum,
Hildesheim Germany, 1015
(14-24)
Bronze, height 16’6”
http://www.ou.edu./class/ahi1113/slides/08-12.jpg
Detail Bishop Bernward Doors
http://www.ou.edu./class/ahi1113/slides/08-13-3.jpg
Romanesque Europe
http://www.ou.edu./class/ahi1113/html/ch-10-1.htm
Abbey Church of Saint-Foy
Conques, Rouergue, France. Mid-11th12th century
left, Abbey Church of Saint-Foy
right, ‘pilgrimage plan’ of the Abbey
Reliquary statue
of Sainte-Foy
Made in Auvergne
for Abbey Church
of Sainte-Foy.
Late 9th–10th century
(p462)
Christ in Majesty
detail of apse painting from
the Church of San Clemente,
Tahull, Lerida, Spain. 1123
(p468)
Church of San Clemente, Tahull, Spain. C. 1100
http://www.arrakis.es/~camui/taull.htm
Cathedral complex, Pisa, Tuscany, 1063–1350
(15-11)
http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/j/x/jxf17/italy2001/Pisa%20cathedral%20inside1.JPG
Interior, Nave, Pisa Cathedral 1063–1100s
http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/j/x/jxf17/italy2001/Pisa%20cathedral%20inside1.JPG
Gislebertus.
Last Judgement,
tympanum of the west
portal, Cathedral of
Saint-Lazare, Autun,
Burgundy, France.
1120-35
Virgin and Child
From the Auvergne
region, France.
Oak with polychrome
(15-27)
Page of facsimile showing
Hildegard's Vision,
Liber Scivias,
1150-1200
Bishop Odo Blessing the Feast
sections 47-48 of the Bayeux Tapestry,
Norman-Anglo-Saxon embroidery.
Linen with wool, 1066-82