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What Do I Turn in before Midterm?. The best drawings you have from each section: Shading - pedestals, single or multi-day still lives Self portrait. Where Have We Been?. Prehistoric Egyptian Mesopotamian (near-eastern) Greek Roman Early Christian / Byzantine / Middle Ages Romanesque
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What Do I Turn in before Midterm? The best drawings you have from each section: Shading - pedestals, single or multi-day still lives Self portrait
Where Have We Been? • Prehistoric • Egyptian • Mesopotamian (near-eastern) • Greek • Roman • Early Christian / Byzantine / Middle Ages • Romanesque • Gothic
The Romanesque Period 1050-1200
The “Romanesque” Period(1050-1200) • Tremendous creative explosion • Church reasserts itself • Crusades begin in 1095 • Return of urban life • Economic reform • Barbarians settle down (convert) • “Romanesque” • Architectural forms and cultural atmosphere reminiscent of the Roman Empire
Apse Aisle Colonnade Nave Aisle Narthex Atrium The Basilica St. Sernin, Toulouse (1078-1125) What’s so Roman about it? Early Christian Basilica
Apse Aisle Colonnade Nave Aisle Narthex Atrium The Basilica St. Sernin, Toulouse (1078-1125) What’s so Roman about it? The Barrel Vault The Groin Vault Ribbed Groin Vault
Apse Aisle Colonnade Nave Aisle Narthex Atrium The Basilica St. Sernin, Toulouse (1078-1125) The Transept and Westwork Transept Westwork - St. Etienne, Caen (1068)
Interiors St. Savin-sur-Gartempe Durham Cathedral (1093-1226)
Pisa Cathedral and Campanile 11thC-12thC
Architectural Sculpture • Designed to put the “Fear of God” into you • Like manuscript illuminations in three dimensions St. Paul South Portal, St. Pierre, Moissac (early 1100’s) Jeremiah
The Tympaneum • Popular themes • Christ Enthroned – The Last Judgement Abbey of Mary Magdalene, Vezelay South Portal, Moissac
Christ Enthroned The Mission of the Apostles – Vezelay
The Last Judgement The Weighing of Souls – Autun Cathedral (1130-35)
The Gothic Period • The Age of Faith
The Gothic Period • The Age of Faith • “The Age of the Great Cathedrals” • (1150-1250)
The Gothic Period • The Age of Faith • “The Age of the Great Cathedrals” • (1150-1250) • The Age of Chivalry
Abbot Suger • The inventor of the “Gothic” style (1137-1144) • Abbot of royal Abbey Church of St.-Denis • Advisor to Louis VI • Combined several things to produce change • Political power • Religious zeal • Civic pride • New philosophy about art and architecture • “We can only appreciate beauty and truth by first being able to appreciate beautiful works of art.” • “The dull mind rises to truth through that which is beautiful.”
Notre DameParis (1163ff)Nave, lookingtoward apse • Verticality• “Miraculous” light• Stained glass Note: Pointed Arch
Notre Dame“God as the Ultimate Mathematician” Flying buttresses! • Geometry • Beauty • Harmony • Balance
Notre Dame“God as the Ultimate Mathematician” Flying buttresses! • Geometry • Beauty • Harmony • Balance
Amiens Cathedral (1220ff) Autun Cathedral (1120ff) 100 Years “High Gothic” “Gothic”
Gothic Sculpture Romanesque Jamb sculptures Chartres Cathedral (1205)
Gothic Sculpture • Realism • Dignity • Serenity • Elegance • Pathos • Classicism Jamb sculptures Chartres Cathedral (1205)
Gothic Sculpture • Realism • Dignity • Serenity • Elegance • Pathos • Classicism Jamb sculptures Chartres Cathedral (1205)
Detail, sculpture by Giovanni Pisano Moses Well, by Claus Sluter
The Return of Painting! • Return to fresco, panel painting (encaustic), and murals • Flourishes first in Italy • NEW MEDIA: • Tempera: Pigment is suspended in egg yolk and water. Applied to a wood panel with an underpainting of gold leaf covered with green or brown • Combines: • Byzantine style with classical Greek and Roman
Christ Entering Jerusalem Duccio (1255/60-1315/18)Egg Tempera Annunciation
Giotto (1267?-1336/7)“The Father of Modern Painting” Resurrection of Lazarus Jesus’ Entry into Jerusalem Fresco/Composition!
Giotto –Madonna Enthroned Gentile da Fabriano - Nativity Note: treatment of light “Chiaroscuro” (light and shade)
Contrast with ByzantineIcons Vladimir Virgin, Russian Madonna Enthroned late 1200’s
Manuscript IlluminationThe Limbourg Brothers February The Book of Hours 1413-16
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