1. Art During the Middle Ages, Medieval Art
1000 years of art divided into major periods including Early Christian, Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic art AD

2. Sculptures, illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, metalwork, mosaics, architecture

3. Medieval art reflected the growing popularity of Christianity
Medieval artists didn’t make art in the round, or 3dimensional. Art was flat. This was because they were trying not to make false idols of their work.

4. The art was a fusion of art from the Middle East, Africa, and Europe
Interlaced patterns and geometric forms
Were common

5. Early Christian Art Began using religious iconography
Icon:object, character, figure, or color used to represent abstract ideas or concepts
 Ex:Matthew: Angel (man)  Mark: Lion  Luke: Ox  John: Eagle

6. Books-Show how educated the Saints were.
 Anchor-Hope
Apple-original sin
Ashes- humiliation
Books-Show how educated the Saints were.
Butterfly-resurrection

7. Nobles began reading during the Middle Ages.

8. Illuminated manuscripts
Called this because they often had gold leafing on the pages
Artists would travel around the country looking for work. The best held rank of court artist.
Very expensive books

9. The Book of Hours-illuminated manuscripts found in the homes of the wealthy. Used for their prayers

10. Almost all art from this period has to do with Christianity
Byzantine art is the name for the artistic products of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, as well as the nations and states that inherited culturally from the empire.
Almost all art from this period has to do with Christianity

11.
Byzantine Mosaics 
Over 10,000 craftsmen were employed to decorate a cathedral

12. Romanesque
Refers to the architecture, which retained many basic features of Roman architectural style – most notably round-headed arches, barrel vaults, apses, and leaf decoration

13. The decoration is often quite simple, using geometric shapes rather than floral designs

14. barrel vaulting -simple, semicircular roof vaults.

15. Apse
a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an Exedra.

16. Gothic Art
Style that developed out of Northern France and spread to the rest of Europe.

17. Secular art is starting to be produced because people other than the church can now buy art. Secular art is art that is separate from Christian art.

18. The word Gothic means barbaric
Other artists and art critics thought the work was barbaric. Raphael made this statement:
the pointed arches of northern architecture were an echo of the primitive huts the Germanic forest dwellers formed by bending trees together

19. Gothic Architecture
characteristics include the pointed arch, the ribbed vault and the flying buttress

20. Pointed arch:

21. Ribbed Vault: This type of vaulting allowed for the addition of windows higher up in the building's walls

22. Flying Buttress
They resisted the lateral forces pushing a wall outwards by redirecting them to the ground. 

23. Which type of architecture is the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. Byzantine, Romanesque, or Gothic?