Vocabulary Cloisone enamel Hiberno-Saxon Illuminated Manuscript Codex Barrel vault Groin vault Transept Ambulatory Radiating chapels Tribunes Compound piers Springing Transverse arches Tripartite division Quadrant arches Buttress Portal Mandorla Tympanum
The Early Middle Ages in the West Period of time between the Classical Roman empire and the Renaissance Migration Period- Different tribes settle western Europe, carving out many of today’s countries and regions. Western European cultures convert to Christianity and monastic culture grows Familiar with Roman influence; Romanesque refers to the Roman style of architecture Period of Crusades and Pilgrimages; 4 crusades in 1090, 1147, 1190, 1204 Beginning of Holy Roman Empire, 800 CE
Anglo-Saxon, Purse Cover, Sutton Hoo Ship Burial, England, 625 King Raedwald
Norse, Lion Head Post, Oseberg Ship Burial, 825
Celtic Christian, High Cross of Muiredach Ireland, 923
Hiberno-Saxon, Book of Durrow, St. Matthew, Britain, Insular Codex Manuscript Illumination Author page tonsure
Book of Durrow, St. Mark Author Page
Hiberno-Saxon, Lindisfarne Gospels, Cross- Carpet Page, Britain, Carpet page
Hiberno-Saxon, The Book of Kells, Chi-Rho page, Iona, Britain, ca. 800 Initial page Christi autem generatio
Detail of Chi Rho Book of Kells
Carolingian, Equestrian Statue of Charlemagne, 9 th century, France Renovatio Romani Imperii Holy Roman Empire
Saint Matthew, Coronation Gospels of Charlemagne, Aachen, Germany, ca
Carolingian, St. Matthew, Ebbo Gospels, , France Charlemagne Monastery Scriptorium
Crucifixion, cover of the Lindau Gospels from Saint Gall, Switzerland, ca. 870
Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne, Aachen, Germany,
Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne
San Vitale, Ravenna, 547
Plan of Saint Gall monastery, Switzerland, ca. 819
Hiberno-Saxon, Lindisfarne Gospels, St. Matthew, , Britain Hiberno-Saxon, Codex Amiatinus, The Scribe Ezra, , Britain
St. Michael’s Church, Hildesheim, Germany,
Ottonian, St. Michael’s, , Germany Choir Piers Nave arcade Alternating Support System
St. Michael’s plan
Ottonian, Bronze Column, St. Michael’s, 1022
Bronze Doors, St. Michael’s Hildesheim, Germany, 1015
Colum of Trajan, Rome, 113 AD
Bronze doors, St. Michael’s, Hildesheim, Germany, 1015
Basilica of St. Sernin, Toulouse, France, Pilgrimage Type Transept
St. Sernin, Plan
Basilica of St. Sernin Ambulatory Radiating chapels
Basilica of St. Sernin, Interior Nave Tribunes Compound piers Springing Transverse arches
Abbey Church of St.-Etiénne, Caen, France, Tripartite division Buttresses
Abbey Church of St.-Etiénne, Interior Nave Groin Vault Ribs Sexpartite vault
Cathedral at Durham, England, begun 1093 Quadrant arches Alternate Support system Ribbed groin vault
Pisa Cathedral Complex, Italy, Begun 1063 Tuscan Romanesque
Arcaded Galleries Cornice
Master Giselbertus, Tympanum, Cathedral of Saint-Lazare,
Weighing of the Souls, Tympanum detail, Saint- Lazare,
St. Alexander reliquary, Belgium, 1145
Burial of King Edward The Bayeux Tapestry, Romanesque, English,
King