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Reliquary Statue of St. Faith, Church of St. Faith, Conques, France, Romanesque, p. 462
· Obtained by holy robbery
· Better reliques for people to visit
o Saint faith wants to be in conques
o Stolen to be taken to another church in conques
· Head s a roman parade helmet
· Martyrdom – crown of martyrdom
· Forced to marry a pagan, she fled
· Greco-roman stones on it , already a ancient antiques
o Very valuable - Quartz
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Cathedral Complex, Pisa, Italy, Romanesque, p. 465
· At pisa in italy
· Made possible by naval conquest over Egypt
· Rounded arches tell you its Romanesque
· And the griffin on top of the temple |
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Last Judgement, Cathedral of St. Lazarus, France, Romanesque, p. 478
The tipanum – the art work in the front
· Close to st lazeruth to heal the sick
The right is the saved and the left is the damned
elongated depiction of bodies
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Church of St. Stephen, Caen, France, Romanesque (image on Bb)
· Model of typical Romanesque church
· Plain and functional
Only sculptures in the typanum |
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Last Judgement, Church of St. Faith, Conques, France, Romanesque (image on Bb)
· Demons on the right
· Reddish color
· Illustration of what not to do
Scriptures from revelations |
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Harold’s Oath, Bayeux Embroidery, Romanesque (image on Bb)
· Harold and William
· Fighting
· King dies, William conqueres Harold
· Oath- both hands touching a relic |
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Page with Hellmouth, Winchester Psalter, Romanesque, p. 509
· Angels locking the doors of hell
· Medieval Christian
o Where ever you are born into, your activities are those that represent how you after life will be like
· Matter of faith, not taken lightly |
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Crucifix (copy of the Volto Santo), Spain, Romanesque, p. 480
· Particular copy of the holy face
· The other was first carved when Christ was entomb
· It was finished by angels
· Miraculous translation- jumped in a boat landed on coast of italy
· Go to the coast and (the bishop)board the boat to bring back to land
· The bishop says-that thing wants to be with me
· Created a church to hold this and other relics
· Eastern garb- clothing shows it is a copy of the holy face
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Messengers Signal the Appearance of Halley’s Comet, Bayeux Embroidery, Romanesque, p. 484
· He will lose in battle because it is bad to see unusual things in the sky
· Williams justification that he will win because god approves of it
· Using religion to justify political
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Interior, Saint-Denis, France, Gothic, p. 494
· First that is gothic
· Abbot suchay
· Importance of light n a church
o Design of churches now will have stained glass window
· Larger and windows is different from romanesque
· The flying buttress is essential to its structure |
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Chartres Cathedral (façade), France, Gothic, p. 498
· Pointed arches
· Rose window, w/stainded glass
· Towers are shown with more and more and greater artistry
· One is more decorated because they are made in different time periods
· Housed the tunic(virgin wore when gave birth to jesus
o Sent this relic on tour to get money to build the building
· The people kicked the leader out of town because he taxed them too much
· Flying butresses |
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Rose Window and Lancets, Chartres Cathedral, p. 504
· Royal lineage of Christ and mary
· Donated money from French coat of arms also spain |
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Interior, Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, Gothic, p. 509
· The holy chapel
· Built by king Louis- a crusader knight
· Louis sold relics to his cousin, brought his money back to build the small chapel
· Gothic to the extreme
Obvious Christian imagery |
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Holofernes’ Army Crossing the Euphrates River, from Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, Gothic,
p. 509
· above spot where he sits in the church
· legitimize what he is doing
· the other nave-respected women figures |
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Cimabue, Virgin and Child Enthroned, Italian, 13th c., p. 535
· Duchio-yellowish icon
· Relatively flat
· Byzantine influenced
· Angels as if the are on a hill
· Gold highlight
· Tilt of the head
o Pointing out baby jesus
· Stylized, formal
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Giotto, Virgin and Child Enthroned, Italian, 14th c., p. 536
· Angels are believable that they are standing around
· Does not have her head tilted
· No more gold highlights
· Tone for 3-d color
· More realistic |
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Giotto, Lamentation, from the Arena Chapel, Italian, 14th c., p. 539
· His own take of a scene
· Scrovegni chapel
o Banking family
o Lending money at interest was a sin
o Son of banking man wants to atone for his family
o Attempting to make his family look better then they are
o Dead tree =Christ dead
o Bodily language shows grief |
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Virgin and Child, French, 14th c., p. 549
· Guileded sculture
· Stance of the figure contro posto
· In saint denis
· Late gothic |
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Ivory Chest with Scenes from Courtly Romances, French, 14th c., p. 552-53
· Secular object
· Popular
· Aristotle and Alexander the great
· Aristotle is being humiliated , ride like a horse
· Also fountain of youth
· Cupid shooting arrows
· People fight with roses and plants
· Tristan and esal, esal married to the king, marragies were arrainged
· Unicorns can only be captured by a virgin |
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Pieta, German, 14th c., p. 555
Lamantation
· Social effects of the plague
· Exaggerated illness of the plague
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Standing Buddha, Bamiyan, Afganistan, 5th c., p. 307
· 1 of 2 world famous structure of buddah
· pilgrimage site
o could ascend stairs up to the head
o was never finished
o the face was rendered in other material
o the Palestine decreeded the site
§ these might convert people back to buddahism
o now it is completely gone because the terrorist bombed it |
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Ritual Wine-Pouring Vessel, Shang Dynasty, bronze, 14th c. BCE, p. 330
· Form of fantastic creature of bird and tiger forms
· Gift to a revered to a elite person who died
· Found in tombs of the elite |
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Terracotta soldiers from the mausoleum of Emperor Shihuangdi, Qin Dynasty, 3rd c. BCE, p. 324
· Site of his moseleum
· 32 mill pounds of clay
· source of his downfall |
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Painted Banner for Lady Dai, Han Dynasty, 2nd c. BCE, p. 332
· Cosmology
· Textile baner to honor lady dai, place over her tomb face down, a gude for her what to expect in the after life, below is the after life-crazy creatures
· The T part is the celestial relm, dragons are guardian
· Accension of lady dai to the after world |
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Seated Buddha, Yungang Cave, 5th c, p. 339
· Near great wall of china
· Enter rellm of humanity and stop belief of life was struggle
· Wanted to end the cycle of struggle and death
· The moment of buddahs enlightenment
· Extended earlobes- he was royal and wore heavy earrings |
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Burial Chamber, Igbo-Ukwu, Nigeria, 10th c, p. 409
· Elite priest king
· Also most likely commission bronze objects and alter |
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Roped Pot, Igbo-Ukwu, Nigeria, bronze, 10th c, p. 411
· Bronze almost like gold at this time, purpose to offer to spirits or ancestors |
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Crowned Head of a Queen, Ife, Yoruba culture, Nigeria, brass, 14th c., p. 402
· From ife, original Yoruba city
· Technically they are brass
· Secondary funeral right
· Posted on a fake body |
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Ritual Vessel, Ife, Yoruba culture, ceramic, 14th c, p. 410
· A shrine to ones head
· Everybody has two head inner-charcter
· Outer head – real head
· The Yoruba offering to there inner head
· Invisible inner head
· A funnel for ofereing to the ancestors , put into the ground |
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Royal Altar, Benin, Edo culture, p. 412
· Nigeria, offereing to a desceeased king, after a son took the thrown
· Ivory tusk- with images to depict event of the king |
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Hip Mask for a Queen Mother, Benin, Edo culture. 16th c., p. 412
· Ivory , white light color, symbolic of olecan(god of the sea)
· Mudfish, portusgues
· Olecan , portugues
· Portugues help to expand the oba’s land |
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Plaque with Warriors, Benin, Edo culture, 16th c., p. 414
· One of oba’s warrior
· A leader
· Twirls sword to show allegiance to the oba
· Events of 1897 – british finally carried out military campaing to defeat the oba, and the art inside was taken by the british army
· Conquest of nigeria |
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Horseman, Jenne, Mali, 14th c, ceramic, p. 416
· Horse and rider
· The horse was a symbol of the wealth of the man sit on it
· These were luded by sellerrs |
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Great Friday Mosque, Jenne, rebuilt 1907 c., p. 417
· The sculptures are then forbidden
· In 1907the was rebuilt
· In style of 13th century
· Ostrich egg at the top of the minerets |
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