Art History 129 -7-
EARLY MEDIEVAL ART cont'd.
Ottonian
Gospel Book of Otto III, c. 1000, Bayerische Staatbibliothek, Munich Ms. Lat. 4453
Spring 2003
Otto III enthroned, fol. 24r
* Hildesheim doors, Bishop Bernward as designer?, 1015, bronze, each panel approx. 23 x 43", doors 16' 6" high, Hildesheim Cathedral (originally for St. Michael's, Hildesheim)
* Genesis scenes and Life of Christ
* Gero Crucifix, commissioned by Archbishop Gero, c. 970, painted oak, 74", Cologne Cathedral
ROMANESQUE themes of militant religion, conquest, frontiers, feudalism, monasticism, cult of relics, crusades, pilgrimage, and eschatology visual culture terms: archivolt, jamb, lintel, trumeau, tympanum, voussoir
* Bayeux "Tapestry," c. 1070-80, possibly made at Canterbury, embroidery in wool on linen, 20" x about 230', Centre Guillaume le Conquérant, Bayeux
Norman Conquest of England
*Virgin and Child relic statue (Morgan Madonna), second half of 12th C., from the Auvergne region of France, painted wood, 31" h., Metropolitan Museum of art, New York
* Moissac, St-Pierre (Languedoc), Cluniac abbey, limestone, approx. 16' 6" wide at base south portal, c. 1115-35
* tympanum: the Apocalyptic Vision or Christ in Majesty with Tetramorph
* trumeau: prophet (Jeremiah)
cloister pier: Abbot Durandus, c. 1100
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Vézelay, La Madeleine (Burgundy), center narthex portal, 1120-32, limestone
* tympanum and lintel: Mission of the Apostles & Ascension
* archivolts: scenes of healing (driving out demons) and teaching
* Autun Cathedral, St-Lazare (Burgundy), c. 1125-35, limestone, approx. 21' wide
(the "myth" of Gislebertus as the artist?)
*west portal: tympanum: Last Judgment, 11'4" x 21'
archivolts: Zodiac and Labors of the Months
*north portal of transept , lintel: Eve (Musée Municipale, Autun)
*nave capital: * Flight into Egypt (chapter house, Autun Cathedral)

Art History 129 -8- Spring 2003 architecture terms: ambulatory, ashlar, bay, bay division, crypt, hemicycle, stringcourse, tribune, triforium, vaults--barrel, groin, ribbed
*Pisa Cathedral, Sta. Maria Maggiore (Tuscany, Italy), begun 1063, campanile 1174 three-story basilica (arcade, tribune or gallery, clerestory), 5 aisles, timber roofed, Early
Christian elevation without bay division, coloristic treatment of marble; extensive exterior galleries
* Speyer Cathedral, Virgin Mary (Rhineland), c. 1027-1106, 89 x 42', 107' when vaulted two-story basilica (arcade and clerestory), originally timber roofed, groin vaults and transverse arches added in c. 1082, bay division in alternating system forming double bays with longitudinal system of arches, compound piers with engaged half-columns, imperial scale
* Toulouse, St. Sernin (Languedoc [southwestern] France), c. 1070-1120, 68 x 359' two-story "pilgrimage-road church" type (arcade, tribune or gallery), five-aisled nave, large aisled transept, ambulatory, transept chapels and ambulatory chapels, choir, barrel-vaulted nave and groin-vaulted aisles, galleries quadrant vaulted, compound piers have attached half-columns which rise to meet transverse arches (half-column also called vaulting respond)
Santiago Cathedral, St. James (Galicia), c. 1075, 77', like Toulouse but 3 aisles
* Caen, St. Etienne (Normandy), begun c. 1067, about 70' three-story timber-roofed basilica (arcade, tribune or gallery, clerestory); later six-part ribbed vaults added in c. 1125-30, originally aisles groin vaulted and galleries quadrant vaulted, alternation of compound piers, thick-walled construction with clerestory passage; two-tower west façade
* Durham Cathedral (Benedictine monastery) (northern England), 1093-c. 1130, 73 x 39' three-story rib-vaulted basilica (arcade, tribune or gallery, clerestory with passage) rib vaults throughout: first rib vaults in western Europe; alternation of piers, pointed arches in transverse arches of nave Anglo-Norman manuscript illumination
* Initial "R" with knight fighting dragon, Moralia in Job, c. 1115-25/early 12th C., Cîteaux
(Cistercian) MS, 14 x 9", Bibliothèque Municipale, Dijon (Burgundy)
Hildegard of Bingen
Scivias (You shall know/Ways of Knowing), c. 1150-79, formerly Hessische Landesbibliothek,
Wiesbaden Cod. 2 (Rhineland)
Fourth vision: Soul's Exodus from its Tabernacle, or Sould and its tabernacle (Human Journey)
*The vision of Hildegard/Hildegard receiving divine illumination
Sixth vision: Choir of Angels
*Third vision: The "Universe"
*Second vision, Pt. 2: True Threeness of the True Oneness
Liber Divinorum Operum (Book of DivineWorks ), by 1174, The Cosmic Wheel

Art History 129 -9- Spring 2003
GOTHIC themes of developing economic expansion, urbanism, beginnings of modernism, importance of women and the feminine, courtly culture sculpture
Early Gothic
Chartres Cathedral (Beauce, SW of Paris), west portals, 1145-55 (also called the Portail Royal)
* central portal: Apocalyptic Vision/Second Coming with angels and 24 Elders in the archivolts;
Apostles from the Last Judgment in the lintel; Old Testament kings and queens as column statues on the jambs
High Gothic
Chartres Cathedral, south transept façade, c. 1210-30
*left portal, added c. 1225-30: column statues with left figure of "St. Theodore," the Christian knight
* Naumburg Cathedral (Saxony, Germany), c. 1250-60
* Founders' choir statues: Ekkehart and Uta architecture terms: flying buttress, molding, pinnacle, ribbed vault, shaft, springing (of a vault or rib), tracery
Early Gothic
* St-Denis (outside Paris), abbey church, 1134-44, limestone, Abbot Suger as patron west façade--2-tower block with rose window and narthex
* ambulatory above crypt--marble columns, contiguous radiating chapels with large windows
Abbot Suger's chalice, c. 1140, agate and silver gilt (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)
* Laon Cathedral of Notre-Dame, c. 1160, 79 x 35'; west façade, c. 1190-1205 (Northeast France) four-story basilican elevation (arcade, gallery, triforium, clerestory) colonnade, alteration above columns, sexpartite ribbed vaults
Paris Cathedral of Notre-Dame, 1163-c. 1210, 107-110 x 44'; west façade, c. 1200 originally four-story elevation (arcade, gallery, rose triforium, clerestory); flying buttresses in nave
High or Classic Gothic
*Chartres Cathedral of Notre-Dame, west façade, 1145-70; church begun after fire of 1194, 114 x
54' (Beauce, SW of Paris) three-story elevation (arcade, triforium, tall clerestory with tracery window of two lancets surmounted by an oculus), flying buttresses, large transept façades originally to have had two towers each, cantonné piers, four-part vaults (rib vaults); exterior niches on buttresses containing saints
*Amiens Cathedral of Notre-Dame, begun c. 1220, Robert de Luzarches, Thomas and Regnault de
Cormont, 138 x 45' (Northeast France--Picardy) three-story elevation (arcade, triforium, large traceried clerestory) compound piers like those of
Chartres (cantonné pier), large tracery windows, glazed triforium in choir