Medieval Roman Empire
Otto Gospels 1000 (four personified provinces venerate Otto III)
The Homage to Emperor Otto II from the Registrum Gregorii ( ) miniature on parchment J.P. Getty Trust
Ottonian Benedictine abbey of Saint Michael's Hildesheim Ottonian Benedictine abbey of Saint Michael's Hildesheim
St. Michael’s, Hildesheim (interior)
Accession of Christ Accession of Christ Unknown Ottonian, Mainz or Fulda, about Tempera colors and gold leaf on parchment Unknown Ottonian, Mainz or Fulda, about Tempera colors and gold leaf on parchment Tempera gold leafparchment Tempera gold leafparchment
Adoration of the Magi Adoration of the Magi Unknown Ottonian, Regensburg, about Tempera colors and gold leaf on parchment Unknown Ottonian, Regensburg, about Tempera colors and gold leaf on parchment Temperagold leafparchment Temperagold leafparchment J.P. Getty Trust J.P. Getty Trust
Gero Cross (Cologone Cathedral), ca Gero Cross (Cologone Cathedral), ca
Lothar Cross, ca. 1000
Byzantine Empire, (yellow is area acquired in this period )
Nicephorus II Phocas (“white death of the Saracens”), Byzantine emperor 963-9
Conrad II and Henry III
Basil II (“the Bulgar Slayer”), (11 th century manuscript)
Pre-Norman Italy, ca. 980
Robert Guiscard ( ), count of Apulia ca coin
Robert Guiscard, gold coin Gold coin (quarter dinar, called the tarì) struck in Sicily, "by order of Duke Robert, illustrious Lord of Sicily" (inscription in the field, on the coin's obverse), "... in Sicily, in the year 464" (circular legend, on the coin's obverse). The inscriptions are in Arabic, and give a date in the Moslem calendar corresponding to the year The legend on the reverse bears a verse of a sura from the Koran. Sicilian coinage from the start of the Norman period preserved certain Islamic characteristics, probabl for both economic and political reasons. (from
Amalfi
Amalfi cathedral (11 th century)
St. Vincenzo
San Miniato, Benedictine Monastery, ca. 1090
Pisa Cathedral, begun 1063
Archangel Michael, 11 th century (St. Mark’s, Venice)
St. Michael and his angels fighting the dragon St. Michael and his angels fighting the dragon From the nave West wall lunette San Pietro al Monte Civate Late 11th century From the nave West wall lunette San Pietro al Monte Civate Late 11th century