1. Homework Dates Unit 3 Chapter 9 Notes due: Wednesday 10/18
Chapter 11 Notes due: Monday 10/23
All Unit 3 Cue Cards due the day of the test=
Friday October 27th

2. Christianity Handout
Summarize each paragraph (can be 1 sentence, 1 word)
Label each fact:
Political
Economic
Religion
Social
Intellectual / Arts
Area / Geography

3. The Middle Ages

4. The Middle Ages is the period of time in Europe between the end of antiquity in the fifth century and the Renaissance, or rebirth of classical learning, in the fifteenth century and sixteenth centuries.

5. Characterizing the Middle Ages as a period of darkness falling between two greater, more intellectually significant periods in history is misleading. The Middle Ages was not a time of ignorance and backwardness, but rather a period during which Christianity flourished in Europe. Christianity, and specifically Catholicism, brought with it new views of life and the world that rejected the traditions and learning of the ancient world.

6. During this time, the Roman Empire slowly fragmented into many smaller political entities. The geographical boundaries for European countries today were established during the Middle Ages. This was a period that heralded the formation and rise of universities, the establishment of the rule of law, numerous periods of ecclesiastical reform and the birth of the tourism industry. Many works of medieval literature, such as the Canterbury Tales, the Divine Comedy, and The Song of Roland, are widely read and studied today.

7. The visual arts prospered during Middles Ages, which created its own aesthetic values. The wealthiest and most influential members of society commissioned cathedrals, churches, sculpture, painting, textiles, manuscripts, jewelry and ritual items from artists. Many of these commissions were religious in nature but medieval artists also produced secular art. Few names of artists survive and fewer documents record their business dealings, but they left behind an impressive legacy of art and culture.

8. Chapter 8 Early Christian (Late Antiquity)

9. Chapter 8 Quiz Please take out half a sheet of paper.
Title Chapter 8 Quiz
Clear your desks

10. 1. The lunettes (semicircular frames) at the Catacomb of Saint Peter and Marcellinus contain the key episodes from what?
A. Greek mythology
B. Roman battles
C. The ruler- Constantine’s life
D. Biblical story of Jonah

11. 2. A catacomb (as in the Catacomb of Saint Peter and Marcellinus) is?
A. a Christian community house.
B. a vast underground networks of galleries (passageways) and chambers designed as cemeteries.
C. a Christian synagogue.
D. a place of worship

12. 3.This image is located in which manuscript?
A. Vatican Vergil
B. Vienna Genesis
C. Rossano Gospels
D. Hagios Georgios

13. 4. Santa Sabina was illuminated by what?
A. the candles that were lined up row by row along the walls
B. the invention of the light bulb
C. basilican windows
D. clerestory windows

14. Free Response Question Write 1 or 2 sentences
5. This image portrays what?
You must give actually names of people.

16. STYLISTIC CHARACTERISTICS
Combination of Classical naturalism & late antique abstraction
from late Roman art
Biblical scenes & funerary
orant & philosopher
Basilica-like churches: plain exterior, east/west orientation,
cruciform, apse, clerestory windows, timber roof, central plan
Rich interior: Mosaics
shallow picture plane
halo
thin frontal figures
Image of Christ changing from beardless youth to bearded
mature adult.
Illuminated manuscript: text & image, silver lettering,
continuous narration

17. Key Events
Two important moments played a critical role in the development of early Christianity:
1. The decision of the Apostle Paul to spread Christianity beyond the Jewish communities of Palestine into the Greco-Roman world.
2. When the Emperor Constantine accepted Christianity and became its patron at the beginning of the fourth century
The creation and nature of Christian art were directly impacted by these moments.

18. Christians, like Jews, used catacombs for burials and funeral ceremonies, not as places of worship.

19. The Good Shepherd, the story of Jonah, and orants,
lunettes
loculi
Orants
Catacombs
Polygonal frame

20. Here, the ceiling of a cubiculum is partitioned by a central medallion, or round compartment, and four lunettes, semicircular framed by arches.

21. At the center is a Good Shepherd, whose pose has roots in Classical sculpture. The semicircular compartments surrounding the Good Shepherd tell the story of Jonah and the sea monster from the Hebrew Bible, in which God caused Jonah to be thrown overboard, swallowed by the monster, and released 3 days later.

22. Christians reinterpreted this story as a parable of Christ’s death and resurrection- and hence of the everlasting life awaiting true believers.

23. On the left, Jonah is thrown from the boat; on the right, the monster spits him up; and at the center Jonah reclines in the shade of a vine, a symbol of paradise.
Orant figures stand between the lunettes, presumably images of the faithful Christian who were buried here.

24. Santa Sabina, Rome
Compare interior
to section of
Old St. Peter’s

25. https://www. khanacademy
4 min.
Class Quiz

26. Manuscripts

27. Vienna Genesis Continuous narrative Illuminated manuscripts
Deluge
Blessing of
Ephraim &
Manasseh
Joseph
in prison
Rebecca and Eliezer at the well
Continuous narrative
Illuminated manuscripts

28. https://www. khanacademy
6 min.