1. Review Questions

2. What does this plan represent? How can you tell?

3. What are the inherent limitations of the Roman barrel vault?

4. What is this section of the cathedral called?
How do you know?
Based on visual evidence, what period must this church be from?
A model of Speyer Cathedral in Germany.

5. How can you tell that this plan represents a pilgrimage church
How can you tell that this plan represents a pilgrimage church? Plan of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

6. A B
Which floor plan depicts a church whose design has been influenced by the logistical demands of large numbers of pilgrims? Please explain your answer.

7. What architectural features reveal this church as Romanesque?
This architectural rendering represents the nave of a Romanesque churches.
What architectural features reveal this church as Romanesque?
In other words, why is it easy to identify this nave as Romanesque?
To earn full credit you must use the appropriate technical terms.

8. Why do you know that this west façade is definitely Romanesque
Why do you know that this west façade is definitely Romanesque? St Peter's Cathedral Angoulême, Charente, France

9. 4. What is Romanesque about this nave? Use your terms.

10. What special “technical” terms do you need to know?
WILIGELMO Creation of Adam and Eve, Fall of Man 1100s Marble, height 100 cm Cathedral of San Geminiano, Modena
What special “technical” terms do you need to know?
What is the intended function of this work?
How did religion affect the production of this work of art?

11. Last Judgment, tympanum Autun Cathedral
What special “technical” terms do you need to know?
What is the intended function of this work?

12. 3. How does the argument represented in this tympanum support the Catholic church’s as the church battles against heresy?

13. Do the black and white dogs in the bottom of the frame need to go to obedience school?
Please explain your answer.

14. Please explain how these bottom two panels from the Doors of Bishop Bernward, Hildesheim Cathedral Hildesheim, Germany, , demonstrate a typological interrelationship.

15. Wiligelmo, Creation and Temptation of Adam and Eve, frieze on the west façade, Modena Cathedral, Modena Italy ca. 1110
Wiligelmo, creation and temptation of Adam and Eve, frieze on the west façade, Modena Cathedral, Modena Italy ca. 1110
Creation of Eve, Presentation of Eve to Adam, doors commissioned by Bishop Bernward for Saint Michael’s, Hildesheim, Germany
What is the common subject of each piece?
In the first piece, what exactly is being depicted? In the second piece, what exactly is being depicted?
Where would you find the first piece?
Where would you find the second piece?
What is the most important stylistic difference between these two pieces?

16. What special “technical” terms do you need to know?
What is the intended function of this work?
How did religion affect the production of this work of art?
MINIATURIST, English The Monk Eadwine c Illumination on parchment, 457 x 330 mm Trinity College, Cambridge

17. What special “technical” terms do you need to know?
What is the intended function of this work?
How did religion affect the production of this work of art?

18. How does this image authorize the emperor’s power?
Emperor Justinian and His Attendants c mosaic on the north wall of the apse, Church of San Vitale, Ravenna Italy
How does this image authorize the emperor’s power?

19. Otto I Presenting Magdeburg Cathedral to Christ from Magdeburg Ivories 962-968
How does this image authorize the emperor’s power?

20. How does this image authorize William the Conqueror’s power?
The Bayeux Tapestry Harold swears an oath to Duke William II of Normandy
How does this image authorize William the Conqueror’s power?

21. How does this mosaic demonstrate syncretism?
Baptism of Christ Baptistery of the Orthodox, Ravenna, Italy early 5th century
How does this mosaic demonstrate syncretism?

22. Why does Jesus look this way?
Hinton St. Mary Mosaic
central panel of a Roman mosaic found at Hinton St Mary (Dorset, England)
Why does Jesus look this way?
Why is this representation significant?

23. Good Shepherd mosaic in the lunette over the west entrance, Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
Why does Jesus look this way? Why is this representation significant?

24. Duke William appears in discussion with his half brothers Odo and Robert, Count of Mortain. Who is the patron who commissioned the Bayeux Tapestry?
Who was the intended audience?

25. Big Ideas: typological interrelationships Benedictine Rule
different representations of Christ
medieval perspective
hierarchical scale
the purpose of sculptural programs
syncretism: artists assimilate images from other traditions, giving them new meanings
iconoclasm: 726 Emperor Leo III launched a campaign of iconoclasm (image breaking), decreeing that all religious images were idols and should be destroyed
icons: often were believed to have been created miraculously and all were thought to have magical protective and healing powers
typological exegesis: Old Testament themes illuminate events in the New Testament; for example, Abraham and Isaac predicts the sacrifice of Christ, Jonah and the whale predicts the resurrection on the third day

26. patrons
Who are the primary patrons during these three periods?
Who are the “famous” patrons? What names do we know?
Who would commission the creation of a
reliquary?
psalter?
book of hours?
illuminated book of the gospels?
carved ivory panels?
mediums
fresco
rib vaulting/barrel vaults (roman vaults)
illuminated manuscripts
embroidery
bronze (bronze doors)
What are specific terms you must know for each medium?
What are specific technical details that you must know?

27. Architecture:
Do you know the technical terms to describe the different parts of a church?
Do you understand why certain architectural innovations were introduced?
Do you understand the purpose of different architectural decisions?
For example:
Why is the monk’s dormitory in an abbey monastery immediately adjacent to the church?
What is the purpose of the cloister?
What is the purpose of a scriptorium?
What is a keystone?
Why is wood so important for constructing vaults?

28. Social Order:
What are the five most important monastic orders? What is most significant about each?
Why does the Black Death matter?
Why do the living conditions of medieval peasants matter?