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Art History
Undergraduate 2
04/25/2011

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Term

Early Christain Art

Art of Late Antiquity

Definition

  • Started to reject polytheism
  • Edict of Milan - ended persecution of Jews/Christians
  • Most art found in catacombs (underground cemetaries)
  • Monumental sculpture uncommon b/c of iconoclasm
  • Constantine built churchs outside city to avoid  confrontation b/w the two ideas
  • Mosaics important/common
  • Rejection of classical style
    • Meant to place emphasis on spirtual world

 

Term

Byzantine Art

Overview

 

Definition

  • Byzantium became capital of Roman Empire (East)
    • Renamed Constantinople
  • Division of empire lead to unstable West half

 

Term

Early Byzantine

Definition

  • Justinian through iconoclasm
  • Hagia Sophia
  • Churches filled with mosaics
    • less naturalistic than roman figures
    • front oriented, no shadows/space
    • proportions elongated
    • stiff garmet/no anatomy
    • gold b/g vs. natural environment
  • Used to simulate spiritual world through symbol/simplification 
    • Classical thought humans were perfect creation of divinity (so it could be observed there)

Term
Middle Byzantine
Definition

  • After end of iconoclasm
  • Greek cross church plan
  • Revival of icons/mosaics

Term
Late Byzantine
Definition

  • 12th C
  • Plundering of Constantinople by Latins
  • Small-scale decor. objects
  • No architecture

Term
Early Midieval Art
Definition

  • 500-1000 CE
  • Fusion of Greco-Roman + Non-Romans from Alps
  • Hiberno-Saxon Style
    • result of growing monastic culture in Ireland
    • decorative, complex illuminated text (ie. book of durrow, lindesfarne gospels, book of kells)
  • Carolingian Art
    • reign of Charlemagne
      • remembered for united w. euro.
    • art is energetic/innovative
    • return to classical tech. (esp. in illuminated texts)

Term
Romanesque Art
Definition

 

  • 1000-13th C
  • Roman features (ie. rounded arches, barrell vaults)
  • Arch. differs from Mideival 
    • no timber roofs
  • Differs from Gothic
    • rounded arches (v. pointed)
  • Invention/revival of west work and portals on cathedrals, groin vaults, alternating piers/collumns along nave

 

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