hinged clasp

Sutton Hoo burial

Anglo-Saxon

British Isle metalwork; geometric animal motifs; millefiori

Gummersmark brooch

Denmark

silver gilt

animal style

palace chapel of Charlemagne

Carolingian

Germany

octagonal chapel (influence of San Vitale); front entry extends upward (westwork); more imposing; striping on voussouirs

equestrian portrait of Charles the Bald

Carolingian

bronze

grandson of Charlemagne; timeless, eternal (not naturalistic)

Matthew the Evangelist

page from Ebbo Gospels

Carolingian

antiquity and new interests; intensity of receiving word of god; psychology/spirtuality (early Expressionism)

Bishop Bernward Doors

Ottonian

bronze

single cast; reminding church goers

Maius

Seven-Headed Dragon and Woman Clothed with the Sun

Mozarabic

hybrid style

Cathedral of St. James

Santiago de Compostela

Romanesque

cruciform church; barrel and groin vaults; 3rd most important pilgrimage site; side entrance and ambulatory for pilgrims

Gislebertus

The Last Judgment

Romanesque sculpture

portal sculpture; tympanum; figure of Christ in mandala; intimidation

Bishop Odo Blessing the Feast

Bayeaux Tapestry

Romanesque

invasion of England; stitched text narration

John of Worcester

Worcester Chronicle

Romanesque

earliest secular book; an illustrated history

Guda the nun

Self-Portrait from a Book of Homilies

Romanesque

signed self-portrait of European woman artist

Chartres Cathedral

Gothic

pointed arches, ribbed groin vault, flying buttresses; red and blue stained glass

rose window

Chartres Cathedral

Gothic

115 ft flying buttresses; filtered light is divine

Jean Pucelle

Book of Hours

Gothic

relation to rituals; private prayer book with calendar; hand-sized for the Queen of France

Life of the Virgin

chasuble

Gothic

needlework Gothic; cape of priest; visual communication