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Art History Final
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12
Art History
Undergraduate 1
03/07/2012

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Alhambra, 1354-1391

  • The "Red Fortress"
  • Dense wood of English Elms, brought by the Duke of Wellingtonin 1812
  • Lush Gardens
  • "A pearl set in emeralds"
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Book of Lindisfarn, Late 7th Century

  • Carpet Page
  • Religious text
  • Ribbon Interlace
  • Animal Interlace, always Anglo Saxton, Ribbon Interlace is always Celtic, 
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Chi-Rho Page, book of Kells, Late 8th or early 9th century

  • Ireland's greatest Relic
  • Resides in Dublin
  • Finest example of Hiberno-Saxton (Irish Saxton) Art
  • By the 11th ecntury, it was considered the most important religious relic in all the world
  • Believed to be the work of angels
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Palatine Chapel, 792-805, Odo of Metz--Architect

  • The only thing surviving of Charlemagne's Palace
  • There is his imperial throne, positioned opposite the priest.
  • the designer was Charlemagne's Biographer
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Christ Enthroned, Godescalc Evangelistary, 781-783

  • Made by Godescalc
  • Illuminated Manuscript
  • Irish-Saxton art
  • Comorates Charlemagne's march to Italy, his meeting with the Pope, and his son's baptism
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St Matthew, Coronation Gospels, 800-810

  • Three-dimensional form
  • color and modulation to create shapes
  • the chair, thel ecterm, and the toga are familiar Roman ccessories
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Abbey of St Corvey, late 9th of early 10th century

  • Towers, and the top of the central tower was added later
  • Rough Hewn Stone, a characteristic of Carolingian Architecture.
  • The emperor sits above the priests, always
  • Patterns and designs--northern art
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St Foy, late 10th, early 11th century

  • Made in honor of "St. Faith", the martyer.
  • Popular for pilgrims passing through.
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Bronze doors, St Michael, 1001-1031, Benward

  • distroyed in the world wars.
  • these doors are the only thing left.
  • The single most ambitious and complex bronze work since antiquity.
  • old and new testament scenes, related to eachother (each has it's counterpart).
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Abbey Church of St. Cluny

  • the most important and the largest of it's kind in the world
  • it no longer exists; destroyed in the french revolution.
  • An independant abbey.
  • No temporal law has any power on it's premises. All were anserable to the Abbey, who was answerabld idrectly to the Pope.
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St. Sernin 1080-1120

  • the first place roman architecture appears.
  • Largest church on the pilgrimage road.
  • Loops the pilgrims in a corcut so as not to interfere with the services.
  • leads your eye to the alter.
  • branded barrel vault, always early romanesque.
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Trumeau, St Pierre 1115-1130


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