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Early Medieval Art

Early Medieval Art. Purse cover, from the Sutton Hoo ship burial (Suffolk, England), c. 625, gold, glass, and enamel cloisonné with garnets and emeralds. art of migratory people/ predatory subject matter/ interlaced pattern.

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Early Medieval Art

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  1. Early Medieval Art

  2. Purse cover, from the Sutton Hoo ship burial (Suffolk, England), c. 625, gold, glass, and enamel cloisonné with garnets and emeralds

  3. art of migratory people/ predatory subject matter/ interlaced pattern

  4. Cross and carpet page from the Lindisfarne Gospels (Northumbria, England), c. 698-721, tempera on vellumHiberno-Saxon, or Insular/ Celtic cross with a transom

  5. use of serpents, dragons, and other fantastic animals

  6. rubrum (“entry in red”)/ minium/ incipit and explicit

  7. varied styles within the Book of Lindisfarne/ sacred act of copying images/ amarius and a scriptorium

  8. Chi-rho-iota page from the Book of Kells (Iona, Scotland), late eighth or early ninth centuryuse of abbreviations/ chi-rho iota/ curves and ripples

  9. inclusion of human and animal shapes

  10. High Cross of Muiredach (Monasterboice, County Louth, Ireland), 923large mass and scale/ church above the transom/ wheel and the circle

  11. Animal head post, from the Oseberg ship burial (Norway), c. 825, woodVikings/ fusion of interlaced pattern and the animal form/ gruesome rituals of human sacrifice/Odin, Thor, and Freya/ Valhalla/ stave church

  12. Two views of the Oseberg ship (Oslo)

  13. Left: Wood carved portal of the stave church at Urnes, Norway, c. 1050-1070Below: drawing of a stave church

  14. Equestrian portrait of Charlemagne (Metz, Germany), early ninth century

  15. Saint Matthew from the Coronation Gospel Book of Charlemagne (Aachen, Germany), c. 800-810, ink and tempera on vellumCharlemagne and Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle)/ reliance on prototypes for artistic inspiration (i.e. the Mediterranean style)/ Caroline minuscule

  16. Saint Matthew from the Ebbo Gospels (Hautvillers, near Reims, France), c. 816-835, ink and tempera on vellumclassical calm replaced by a frenzy of energy

  17. Saint Luke from the Ebbo Gospels (Hautvillers, near Reims, France), c. 816-835, ink and tempera on vellum

  18. Illustrations to Psalms 43 and 44, from the Utrecht Psalter, c. 820-32 CE

  19. Cover of the Psalter of Charles the Bald (St. Denis, France), c. 865, ivory panel set in silver-gilt with filigree work and precious stonesrich, decorated surfaces/ continued intellectual and artistic endeavors during the Carolingian period

  20. Left: front cover of the Lindau Gospels, c. 870, goldBelow: back cover

  21. Odo of Metz. Interior of the Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne (Aachen, Germany), 792-805modeled after San Vitale/ second-storied throne

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