History of Art I Early Medieval Art and Architecture (c AD)
Early Christian Byzantine Islamic Budhhist
Medieval Europe
We will leave Rome behind…but not its legacy
Hiberno-Saxon Art
St. Patrick (born c. 400 AD in Roman Britain)
Irish Monasteries Skellig Michael
The Scriptorium
(from the movie, The Name of the Rose)
Illuminated Manuscripts
Vellum (Calfskin)
St. Matthew, Book of Durrow, c. 680 AD
The Book of Kells, 800 CE Gospel of St. Matthew
Sutton Hoo purse cover, c. 600 AD
Lindisfarne Gospels
First page of Gospel according to Mark
Charlemagne (c. 800)
Carolingian
Patron of Illuminated Manuscripts St. Matthew, from the Gospel Book of Charlemagne, c. 800 AD)
Font: precursor to Times New Roman
Lindisfarne text
Pompeii
Manuscript covers
Front cover of the Lindau Gospels, c. 900 AD
Early Christian casket, c. 420
Charlemagne’s Palace at Aachen
San Vitale
? Plan
Westwork Abbey Church at Corvey, c. 900
Abbey Church of St. Pantaleon, Cologne, Germany, c. 950
Basilican Plan
Abbey Church of St. Michael’s Hildesheim, c. 1000
Bishop Bernward’s Bronze Doors
Left Door: Genesis Right Door: Life of Christ
Stories from the Old and New Testaments Adam and Eve Cast Out of Eden
Gero Crucifix (Reliquary) Cologne Cathedral, Germany, c. 950