purse cover from sutton hoo burial ship

Suffolk England

615-625

Ribbon& animal interlace

Cloisonné- cells for filling in w/ precious metal and colored glass

Sutton = site/village (series of burial mounds); Hoo = hill

King Raedwald – buried with possessions

Coins = contact/trade w/ other countries in Europe

Man against beast theme (i.e. Gilgamesh, Beowulf)
o Birds fighting (norse hawk and duck)

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Abbey Church of Saint-Denis

Paris, France

After saint-denise's head was chopped off, Denis is said to have picked it up and walked six miles

Abbot Surger rebuilt the church and made the "first" gothic style building.

site of pilgrimage and educated/buried kings

o Admin head of monastic complex
o During time of renovation, King Louis VII ruling
o King Louis VIII participating in crusades
o Abbot Suger ruled country in his absence

virgin and child of jeanne d'evreux

is in the abbey church of saint-denise

Statue and relic given to San Denis Abbey
o Jeanne d’Evreux gave it to Abbey of San Denis
o Gothic looking virgin/female figure
o Fluid contropassto pose (fluid s-curve)
o Elegance of figure matched by garment
o Holding scepter w/ Fleur de lys – would have held portion of virgin
(i.e. garment, etc.)
o Symbol of French kings
o Scenes on bottom from passion of Christ

TERMS:

RIBBED VAULTING

BUTRESSES

bayeux tapestry

which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England as well as the events of the invasion itself.

England by William, Duke of Normandy, who became known as William the Conqueror after his victory at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, defeating the then king Harold II of England.

Commissioned by Bishop Odo

linen with wool embroidery

230 feet long

Romanesque

reconstruction drawing of the palace chapel of charlemagne

792-805

The plan and decoration of the building combines elements of Classical, Byzantine and Pre-Romanesque, and opulent materials as the expression of a new royal house, ruled by Charlemagne. The architect responsible, Odo of Metz

The plan and decoration owe much to the sixth-century Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna.

The Palatine Chapel is an Early Medieval chapel that is the remaining component of Charlemagne's Palace of Aachen

Pre-Romanesque, Carolingian

doors of the Hildesheim Cathedral

Casted in the lost wax process.

Portrays scenes from the Hebrew bible(left) and new testament.(right)

Made by Bishop Bernward

Abbey Church of St Michael, Hildesheim, Germany

Santiago de Compostela Cathedral

The cathedral is the reputed burial-place of Saint James the Greater, one of the apostles of Jesus Christ.

Romanesque

An apse chapel, in church architecture, is a chapel radiating tangentially from one of the bays or divisions of the apse.

Ambulatory -

gislebertus the magi asleep

Shows the magi asleep being disturbed by an angel

c 1120-1132

gislebertus last judgement

French Romanesque

Autun Cathedral, west portal

Made of marble

shows people being judged and either going to heaven or hell