1. Romanesque & Gothic Art
Medieval large sculpture returns…and Art of Book continues…

2. Masons at Work
Jennifer B

3. Hildegard and Volmar, Liber Scivias Illuminated manuscript, Romanesque
Famous female artist & illustrator
Self portrait showing flames of inspiration along with her scribe Volmar
Shown in Romanesque abbey
Christen R.
Artist: n/a
Title: Facsimile frontispiece with Hildegard and Volmar, Liber Scivias
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: 1165–75
Source/ Museum: Original MS lost during World War II

4. Christ in Majesty, Church of San Climent, Spain Flashcard
Mural painting
Byzantine influence in elongated figures
Classical influence in drapery
(Jessica M.)
Artist: n/a
Title: Christ in Majesty, detail of apse
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: c. 1123
Source/ Museum: Church of San Climent, Taull, Catalunya, Spain / Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

5. Tower of Babel, detail of painting, Church of St. Savin Andy N.
Artist: n/a
Title: Tower of Babel, detail of painting in nave vault
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: c. 1115
Source/ Museum: Abbey Church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe, Poitou, France
Tower of Babel, detail of painting, Church of St. Savin
Andy N.

6. Cruciifix, mid-12th century Catalunya, Spain
Gisele R
Artist: n/a
Title: Crucifix (Majestat Batlló)
Medium: Polychromed wood
Size: height approx. 37 ¾" (96 cm)
Date: Mid-12th century
Source/ Museum: Catalunya, Spain / Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

7. Virgin & Child (aka Mary as Throne of Wisdom)
Late 12th century (Romanesque)
Oak w/polychromy, 21” high
Bernadette L
Artist: n/a
Title: Virgin and Child
Medium: Oak with polychromy
Size: height 31" (78.7 cm)
Date: Late 12th century
Source/ Museum: Auvergne region, France / The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York. Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916 ( )

8. Artist: n/a
Title: Messengers Signal the Appearance of a Comet (Halley’s Comet), The Bayeux Tapestry
Medium: Norman–Anglo-Saxon embroidery Linen with wool
Size: height 20" (50.8 cm)
Date: c. 1066–82
Source/ Museum: From Canterbury, Kent, England, or Bayeux, Normandy, France / Centre Guillaume le Conquérant, Bayeux, France
Bayeux Tapestry (flashcard) Messengers Signal the Appearance of a Comet

9. Bishop Odo Blessing the Feast, Bayeux Tapestry
Norman-Anglo Saxon embroidery
300” long, 20” high, , Romanesque Period
Commemorated the conquest of England and defeatl of King Harald by William the Conqueror
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Artist: n/a
Title: Bishop Odo Blessing the Feast, the Bayeux Tapestry
Medium: Norman–Anglo-Saxon embroidery, linen with wool
Size: height 20" (50.8 cm)
Date: c. 1066–82
Source/ Museum: From Canterbury, Kent, England, or Bayeux, Normandy, France / Centre Guillaume le Conquérant, Bayeux, France

10. Detail of Bayeux Tapestry
Artist: n/a
Title: Detail, Bishop Odo Blessing Feast, the Bayeux Tapestry
Medium: Norman–Anglo-Saxon embroidery, linen with wool
Size: height 20" (50.8 cm)
Date: c. 1066–82
Source/ Museum: from Canterbury, Kent, England, or Bayeux, Normandy, France / Centre Guillaume le Conquérant, Bayeux, France

11. St. Matthew, from the Codex Colbertinus Romanesque period
Illuminated manuscript, c 1100
Artist: n/a
Title: St. Matthew, from the Codex Colbertinus
Medium: Tempera on vellum
Size: 7 ½ X 4" (19 X cm)
Date: c. 1100
Source/ Museum: Bibliothèque National Paris

12. The Mouth of Hell, Winchester Psalter
Romanesque illuminated manuscript
Shows fanciful interpretation of souls being consigned to hell after the Last Judgment
C 1150
Ink & tempera on vellum
FLASHCARD
Artist: n/a
Title: The Mouth of Hell, Winchester Psalter
Medium: Ink and tempera on vellum
Size: 12 ¾ X 9⅛" (32.5 X 23 cm)
Date: c. 1150
Source/ Museum: Winchester, England / The British Library, London

13. Queen Blanche of Castile and Louis IX, Moralized Bible
Ink, tempera, gold leaf on vellum
FLASHCARD
15” x 10 1/2”
Gothic
Artist: n/a
Title: Page with Queen Blanche of Castile and Louis IX, Moralized Bible
Medium: Ink, tempera, and gold leaf on vellum
Size: 15 x 10½" (38 X 26.6 cm)
Date: 1226–34
Source/ Museum: Paris / The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. MS. M. 240, f.8

14. Artist: n/a
Title: Psalm 1 (Beatus Vir) from The Windmill Psalter
Medium: Ink, pigments, and gold on vellum
Size: each page 12 ¾ X 8¾" (32.3 X 22.2 cm)
Date: c. 1270–80
Source/ Museum: London / The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. M. 102, f. lv-2
Psalm 1 from the Windmill Psalter, flashcard, Gothic period, illuminated manuscript of ink, pigments, & gold on vellum

15. Artist: n/a
Title: Dormition of The Virgin
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: c. 1240
Source/ Museum: South transept portal tympanum, Strasbourg Cathedral, Strasbourg, France
Death of the Virgin, Strasbourg Cathedral, c. 1240, high relief sculpture on Tympamum on South portal. Flashcard

16. Lifesize statue of dark sandstone, originally painted
Saint Maurice
Lifesize statue of dark sandstone, originally painted
Depicted Moorish (African) saint who served in the Crusades
Artist: n/a
Title: Saint Maurice
Medium: Dark sandstone with traces of polychromy
Size: n/a
Date: c. 1240–50
Source/ Museum: Magdeburg Cathedral, Magdeburg, Germany

17. Ekkehard & Uta, from Naumberg Cathedral
Gothic period sculpture, lifesized
Showed patrons of church
Realistic portrait sculpture recalling Roman veristic traditions
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Vanessa
Artist: n/a
Title: Ekkehard and Uta
Medium: Stone, originally polychromed
Size: approx. 6'2" (1.88 m)
Date: c. 1245–60
Source/ Museum: West chapel, Naumburg Cathedral, Naumburg, Germany

18. Marble sculpture about 15” high-flashcard
Pulpit, Baptistry, Pisa
Marble sculpture about 15” high-flashcard
Gothic period
Pisa Cathedral
Master family of sculptors
Artist: Nicola Pisano
Detail below
Artist: Nicola Pisano
Title: Pulpit, Baptistry, Pisa
Medium: Marble
Size: height approx. 15' (4.6 m)
Date: 1260
Source/ Museum: n/a

19. Detai of Nativity from puplit by Pisano
Artist: Nicola Pisano
Title: Nativity
Medium: Marble
Size: 33½ X 44½" (85 X 113 cm)
Date: 1260
Source/ Museum: Detail of pulpit, Baptistry, Pisa, Italy

20. Tempera & gold on wood panel
Crucifix
Coppo di Marcovaldo
Tempera & gold on wood panel
Byzantine influence seen, similar to what ????
Artist: Coppo di Marcovaldo
Title: Crucifix
Medium: Tempera and gold on wood panel
Size: 9'7⅜" X 8'1¼" (2.93 X 2.47 m)
Date: c. 1250–70
Source/ Museum: Pinacoteca, San Gimignano, Italy