Western Art and Architecture frm 300 to 1400 ad

February 7, 2018 | Author: Anonymous | Category: History, World History, Middle Ages
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Western Art and Architecture frm 300 to 1400 ad T J Osler

Santa Costanza: exterior, view from NW., ca. 350 A.D. Rome, Italy

Interior

Santa Sabina: interior, nave, view from west, begun ca. 422-432 A.D. Rome

Sarcophagus with Scenes from the Passion of Christ(probably from the Catacomb of Domitilla), mid-4th century A.D.

Christ carrying the Cross, detail of 1st [far left] panel, mid4th century A.D.

Byzantine monumental Church mosaics are a crowning glory of Medieval Art. One of the most famous of the surviving mosaics is in the Church of the Holy Wisdom in former Constantinople—the image of Christ on the walls of the upper southern gallery.

Byzantine: Ravenna, exterior, view from south, 526-547 A.D.

San Vitale: interior, view towards apse showing mosaics: [T] roundel portraits of Christ and Apostles; [TC] Lamb of God with Archangels; [C] Christ enthroned with Angels and Saints, ca. 547 A.D.

The Emperor Justinian and his retinue; detail of mosaic from the left side [north wall] of the apse, San Vitale, ca. 547 A.D.

German, Carolingian, Torhalle (gatehouse of the Benedictine abbey), Lorsch: exterior, view from north, 768-774

German, Ottonian, St. Cyriakus, Gernrode:exterior, Westbau, view from NW., 961-983 (west towers and choir enlarged late 12th century)

French, Romanesque, Abbey Church, Cluny: south transept ("Tower of the Blessed Water"), view from NW., 1088-1118

Islamic, Spain (Umayyad Period), Great Mosque, Cordoba: interior, arcades, begun 785-786; enlarged to 987

Great Mosque, Cordoba: interior, dome in front of the mihrab, added 965 (reign of al-Hakam II)

Adoration of Mary , 1150 France

Enthroned Virgin and Child France 1260

Madonna and Child 1300

Byzantine Icon 1400

The western façade of Reims Cathedral, France. 12th century

Sainte Chapelle.

Notre Dame de Paris.

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Interior of Coutances Cathedral, France

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