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Chapter 16: Europe after the Fall of Rome, Early Medieval Art in the West
Text pages 420-445
Name three traditions which fused to create early medieval society in Western Europe:
1.
2.
3.
Art of the Warrior Lords
Define or identify the following terms:
Cloisonné:
Fibula:
Viking:
1. Briefly describe the style decoration of the Merovingian fibula shown in fig 16-1:
2. What was found at Sutton Hoo, and what was its importance?
3. Describe the style of the decoration on the panel from Urnes (fig 16-4) and the Viking ship found near
Oseberg Norway (fig 16-3):
Hiberno-Saxon Art
Define or identify the following terms:
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Hiberno-Saxon:
Mozarabic:
Scriptorium:
1. What can explain the differences in the two pages from the Lindesfarne Gospel illuminate on figs 16-6- and
16-7?
2. List three characteristics of the style utilized on the chi-roh-iota page from the Book of Kells (fig 16-8)
a.
b.
c.
3. What design shown on the Muiredach cross identifies it as Celtic? Draw this in the space below:
Carolingian Art
Define or identify the following terms:
Cloister:
Crossing:
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Module:
Monastery:
Westwork:
1. What was the significance of Charlemagne being crowned in Rome in the year 800?
a. What effect did that have on the art of Northern Europe?
2. List three ways in which the artist of the Gospel Book of Archbishop Ebbo of Reims (fig 16-13) has modified
the style found in the Gospel Book of Charlemagne?
a.
b.
c.
Which manuscript is most closely related to the style of the Ultrecht Psalter (fig 16-14)? And in what
way?
3. The Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne resembles the church of ________________________ in Ravenna, but
is distinguished by:
a.
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b.
4. Although the church of the monastery of St. Gall is a three-aisled basilica, it differs from its Early Christian
prototypes in the following ways:
a.
b.
c.
What is the significance of its modular construction?
Ottonian Art
Define or identify the following terms:
Bishop Bernward:
Reliquary:
1. List two features of the church of Saint Cyriakus of Gernrode that would be important for later medieval
architecture:
a.
b.
2. Describe the alternate-support system; you may sketch it in the space below:
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3. The style of the figures on the bronze doors at St. Michael’s at Hildesheim (fig 16-24) probably derives from
manuscript illumination of the period. In what major way does it differ from its prototypes?
4. Name a possible source for the Triumphal Column in Saint Michael’s at Hildesheim (fig 16-25):
5. List three features of the Gero crucifix (fig 16-26) that contribute to the expression of suffering:
a.
b.
c.
6. What two stylistic features seen in the Lectionary of Henry II (fig 16-28) were not apparent in earlier
Carolingian illumination?
a.
b.
7. Looking Carefully and Describing
Hiberno-Saxon artists worked in complex flat patterns, but if you look very carefully you will see that the
way they organized their patterns was very different. Write at least a page comparing the Carpet page from
the Lindesfarne Gospels (fig 16-6 and Frontispiece of Chapter 16) and the Chi-rho-iota page from the Book
of Kells (fig 16-8). Look first at the underlying structure of each page. What large forms do you see, what
symmetry and asymmetry? What sort of frame is used? Which forms are based on vertical and horizontal
lines, which on diagonals, which on curves? Then start to look within the major forms and between them.
What do you see? How are these forms composed? Are they different in two pages? Do you see small heads
and feet or only abstract interlace? Use a magnifying glass (I have one available in class), apply it to the
pages. Keep looking, closer and closer and describe what you see. Then write down the feelings you might
have if you had to create such a work from the ground (or rather parchment) up.
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Fig 16-6 Carpet Page from Lindesfarne Gospels
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Fig 16-8 chi-rho-iota page from the Book of Kells
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Summary of Early Medieval Art in the West
Using the timeline on page 445 of the text, enter the approximate dates for the following periods. Then fill in the chart
as much as you can from memory; check your answers against the text and then complete the chart.
Merovingian
________to________
Carolingian
________to________
Ottonian
________to________
Typical examples
Merivingian/Germanic
Viking
Hiberno-Saxon
Carolingian Illuminations
Stylistic Characteristics
Significant Historical People, Events, Ideas, Etc.
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Summary of Early Medieval Art in the West Continued
Typical examples
Carolingian Architecture
Ottonian Architecture
Ottonian Sculpture
Ottonian Illumination
Stylistic Characteristics
Significant Historical People, Events, Ideas, Etc.
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Early Medieval Sites in Europe
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Map 16-1
Locate and mark/circle the items below on the map:
Aachen
Lindisfarne
Reichenau
Gernrode
Lorsch
Saint Gall
Durrow
Kells
Sutton Hoo
Urnes
Hildesheim