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DES•201 Art History

Lecture Outline

The Middle Ages

From Rome to the Renaissance

  1. Early Christian (1st century – c.450)
    1. Inscriptions
    2. Sculpture
    3. Manuscripts & writing
    4. Architecture
    5. Mosaics
  2. Byzantine (c.400 – c.1200)
    1. Architecture
    2. Mosaics & painting
  3. Golden Age of Ireland (c.500– c.800)
  4. Carolingian (751 – 936)
  5. Ottonian (936 – 1024)
  6. Romanesque (c.1050 – c.1200)
    1. Pilgrimage churches
    2. Sculpture (Gislebertus)
    3. Manuscripts
    4. Bayeux Tapestry
  7. Gothic (c.1200 – c.1400)
    1. Cathedrals
    2. Sculpture
    3. Painting
      1. Duccio of Sienna
      2. Giotto di Bondone
    4. Manuscripts
      1. Ormesby Psalter
      2. Limbourg Brothers

catacomb

ichthys

parchment

codex

illuminated manuscript

uncial

clerestory lighting

mosaic

tesserae

Hagia Sophia

icon

Book of Durrow

Lindisfarne Gospels

Book of Kells

insular script

Franks

Charlemagne

pilgrimage

relics

Gislebertus

tympanum

Master Hugo

Abbot Suger

Saint Denis

Chartres Cathedral

flying buttress

egg tempera

fresco

textura

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