Read Discovering Art History pages 222-239
Time Period : 500-1050 CE
Hiberno-Saxon Empire: 500-799 CE
Carolingian Empire: 700-899 CE
Key Ideas:
Early Medieval Vocabulary
•Celtic
Migratory period/ portable work
Hiberno-Saxons preferred abstract interlacing patterns
Carolingians revived ancient Roman style
•Cloisonné
•Cloister
•Codex
•Horror vacui
•Illumination
•Parchment
•Vellum
Saxon & Hiberno-Saxon Art to Know
Purse Cover from Sutton Hoo Book of Lindisfarne , c. 700, Book of Kells , c. 800, ink on
Ship Burial, 600-650, gold, garnet, enamels, British
Museum, London, England.
(p224) tempera on vellum, British
Museum, London, England.
(p222-223) vellum, Trinity College
Library, Dublin, Ireland.
Equestrian Statue of a
Carolingian Ruler , 9th c., bronze, Louvre, Paris, France.
Carolingian Art to Know
Odo of Metz, Palatine Chapel ,
792-805, Aachen, Germany.
(p224)
St. Matthew the Evangelist , c.
816-835, (from the Ebbo Gospels), ink and tempera on velum, c.10 x 8”,
Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France,
(p226)

Time Period 1000-1150 CE
Romanesque Vocabulary
•Abbey
•Apse
•Archivolt
•Baptistry
•Buttress
•Campanile
•Cathedral
•Embroider
•Mandorla
•Reliquary
•Ribbed vault
•Secular
•Tapestry
•Tympanum
Key Ideas:
Increased pilgrimage traffic= ideas traffic
Return to large-scale architecture
Romanesque Architecture to Know
• Pisa Cathedral , begun 1063, Pisa, Italy. • Basilique Sainte-Madeleine , 1104-1132,
(p236) Vezelay, France. (p235)
Romanesque Sculpture to Know
• The Mission of the Apostles from the •Gislebertus, Last Judgment , 1120-1135, tympanum of Basilique Sainte-Madeleine , marble, St. Lazare, Autun, France. (p237)
1120-1132, limestone, Vezelay, France. (p233)
Romanesque Craft to Know
•Bayeux Tapestry, 1070-1080, wool and linen •
Chalice of Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis, c embroidery, 20” x 130’, Bayeux, France.
(p230, 238)
1140, sardonyx cup with gilded silver mounting, filgrees of stones, pearls, glass insets and opaque white glass pearls, 7 ½” high, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
(p230,
239)