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Undergraduate 2
12/11/2011

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Reliquary Statue of St. Faith, Church of St. Faith, Conques, France, Romanesque, p. 462

·      Obtained by holy robbery

·      Better reliques for people to visit

o   Saint faith wants to be in conques

o   Stolen to be taken to another church in conques

·      Head s a roman parade helmet

·      Martyrdom – crown of martyrdom

·      Forced to marry a pagan, she fled

·      Greco-roman stones on it , already a ancient antiques

o   Very valuable - Quartz

 

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Cathedral Complex, Pisa, Italy, Romanesque, p. 465

·      At pisa in italy

·      Made possible by naval conquest over Egypt

·      Rounded arches tell you its Romanesque

·      And the griffin on top of the temple

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Last Judgement, Cathedral of St. Lazarus, France, Romanesque, p. 478

The tipanum – the art work in the front

·      Close to st lazeruth to heal the sick

 The right is the saved and the left is the damned

elongated depiction of bodies

 

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Church of St. Stephen, Caen, France, Romanesque (image on Bb)

·      Model of typical Romanesque church

·      Plain and functional

Only sculptures in the typanum

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Last Judgement, Church of St. Faith, Conques, France, Romanesque (image on Bb)

·      Demons on the right

·      Reddish color

·      Illustration of what not to do

Scriptures from revelations

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Harold’s Oath, Bayeux Embroidery, Romanesque (image on Bb)

·      Harold and William

·      Fighting

·      King dies, William conqueres Harold

·      Oath- both hands touching a relic

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Page with Hellmouth, Winchester Psalter, Romanesque, p. 509

·      Angels locking the doors of hell

·      Medieval Christian

o   Where ever you are born into, your activities are those that represent how you after life will be like

·      Matter of faith, not taken lightly

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Crucifix (copy of the Volto Santo), Spain, Romanesque, p. 480

·      Particular copy of the holy face

·      The other was first carved when Christ was entomb

·      It was finished by angels

·      Miraculous translation- jumped in a boat landed on coast of italy

·      Go to the coast and (the bishop)board the boat to bring back to land

·      The bishop says-that thing wants to be with me

·      Created a church to hold this and other relics

·      Eastern garb- clothing shows it is a copy of the holy face

 

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Messengers Signal the Appearance of Halley’s Comet, Bayeux Embroidery, Romanesque, p. 484

·      He will lose in battle because it is bad to see unusual things in the sky

·      Williams justification that he will win because god approves of it

·      Using religion to justify political

 

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Interior, Saint-Denis, France, Gothic, p. 494

·      First that is gothic

·      Abbot suchay

·      Importance of light n a church

o   Design of churches now will have stained glass window

·      Larger and windows is different from romanesque

·      The flying buttress is essential to its structure

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Chartres Cathedral (façade), France, Gothic, p. 498

·      Pointed arches

·      Rose window, w/stainded glass

·      Towers are shown with more and more and greater artistry

·      One is more decorated because they are made in different time periods

·      Housed the tunic(virgin wore when gave birth to jesus

o   Sent this relic on tour to get money to build the building

·      The people kicked the leader out of town because he taxed them too much

·      Flying butresses

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Rose Window and Lancets, Chartres Cathedral, p. 504

·      Royal lineage of Christ and mary

·      Donated money from French coat of arms also spain

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Interior, Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, Gothic, p. 509

·      The holy chapel

·      Built by king Louis- a crusader knight

·      Louis sold relics to his cousin, brought his money back to build the small chapel

·      Gothic to the extreme

Obvious Christian imagery

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Holofernes’ Army Crossing the Euphrates River, from Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, Gothic,

p. 509

·      above spot where he sits in the church

·      legitimize what he is doing

·      the other nave-respected women figures

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Cimabue, Virgin and Child Enthroned, Italian, 13th c., p. 535

·      Duchio-yellowish icon

·      Relatively flat

·      Byzantine influenced

·      Angels as if the are on a hill

·      Gold highlight

·      Tilt of the head

o   Pointing out baby jesus

·      Stylized, formal

 

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Giotto, Virgin and Child Enthroned, Italian, 14th c., p. 536

·      Angels are believable that they are standing around

·      Does not have her head tilted

·      No more gold highlights

·      Tone for 3-d color

·      More realistic

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Giotto, Lamentation, from the Arena Chapel, Italian, 14th c., p. 539

·      His own take of a scene

·      Scrovegni chapel

o   Banking family

o   Lending money at interest was a sin

o   Son of banking man wants to atone for his family

o   Attempting to make his family look better then they are

o   Dead tree =Christ dead

o   Bodily language shows grief 

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Virgin and Child, French, 14th c., p. 549

·      Guileded sculture

·      Stance of the figure contro posto

·      In saint denis

·      Late gothic

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Ivory Chest with Scenes from Courtly Romances, French, 14th  c., p. 552-53

·      Secular object

·      Popular

·      Aristotle and Alexander the great

·      Aristotle is being humiliated , ride like a horse

·      Also fountain of youth

·      Cupid shooting arrows

·      People fight with roses and plants

·      Tristan and esal, esal married to the king, marragies were arrainged

·      Unicorns can only be captured by a virgin

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Pieta, German, 14th c., p. 555

Lamantation

·      Social effects of the plague

·      Exaggerated illness of the plague

 

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Standing Buddha, Bamiyan, Afganistan, 5th c., p. 307

·      1 of 2 world famous structure of buddah

·      pilgrimage site

o   could ascend stairs up to the head

o   was never finished

o   the face was rendered in other material

o   the Palestine decreeded the site

§  these might convert people back to buddahism

o   now it is completely gone because the terrorist bombed it

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Ritual Wine-Pouring Vessel, Shang Dynasty, bronze, 14th c. BCE, p. 330

·      Form of fantastic creature of bird and tiger forms

·      Gift to a revered to a elite person who died

·      Found in tombs of the elite

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Terracotta soldiers from the mausoleum of Emperor Shihuangdi, Qin Dynasty, 3rd c. BCE, p. 324

·      Site of his moseleum

·      32 mill pounds of clay

·      source of his downfall

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Painted Banner for Lady Dai, Han Dynasty, 2nd c. BCE, p. 332

·      Cosmology

·      Textile baner to honor lady dai, place over her tomb face down, a gude for her what to expect in the after life, below is the after life-crazy creatures

·      The T part is the celestial relm, dragons are guardian

·      Accension of lady dai to the after world

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Seated Buddha, Yungang Cave, 5th c, p. 339

·      Near great wall of china

·      Enter rellm of humanity and stop belief of life was struggle

·      Wanted to end the cycle of struggle and death

·      The moment of buddahs enlightenment

·      Extended earlobes- he was royal and wore heavy earrings

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Burial Chamber, Igbo-Ukwu, Nigeria, 10th c, p. 409

·      Elite priest king

·      Also most likely commission bronze objects and alter

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Roped Pot, Igbo-Ukwu, Nigeria, bronze, 10th c, p. 411

·      Bronze almost like gold at this time, purpose to offer to spirits or ancestors

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Crowned Head of a Queen, Ife, Yoruba culture, Nigeria, brass, 14th c., p. 402

·      From ife, original Yoruba city

·      Technically they are brass

·      Secondary funeral right

·      Posted on a fake body

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Ritual Vessel, Ife, Yoruba culture, ceramic, 14th c, p. 410

·      A shrine to ones head

·      Everybody has two head inner-charcter

·      Outer head – real head

·      The Yoruba offering to there inner head

·      Invisible inner head

·      A funnel for ofereing to the ancestors , put into the ground

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Royal Altar, Benin, Edo culture, p. 412

·      Nigeria, offereing to a desceeased king, after a son took the thrown

·      Ivory tusk- with images to depict event of the king

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Hip Mask for a Queen Mother, Benin, Edo culture. 16th c., p. 412

·      Ivory , white light color, symbolic of olecan(god of the sea)

·      Mudfish, portusgues

·      Olecan , portugues

·      Portugues help to expand the oba’s land

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Plaque with Warriors, Benin, Edo culture, 16th c., p. 414

·      One of oba’s warrior

·      A leader

·      Twirls sword to show allegiance to the oba

·      Events of 1897 – british finally carried out military campaing to defeat the oba, and the art inside was taken by the british army

·      Conquest of nigeria

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Horseman, Jenne, Mali, 14th c, ceramic, p. 416

·      Horse and rider

·      The horse was a symbol of the wealth of the man sit on it

·      These were luded by sellerrs

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Great Friday Mosque, Jenne, rebuilt 1907 c., p. 417

·      The sculptures are then forbidden

·      In 1907the was rebuilt

·      In style of 13th century

·      Ostrich egg at the top of the minerets

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