chapter 12

Early Medieval Europe

11-13 Esquestrian portrait of Charlemagne or Charles the Bald

From Metz, France

Ninth century

Made of bronze

Potrait of a crowned emperor holding a globe. The symbol of world dominon

11-29 Crucifix commissioned by Archbishop Gero (Gero Crucifix)

From Cologne Cathedral, Germany

Painted wood

970

Ottonian period

11-6 Man ( symbol of Saint Matthew)

Folio 21 verso of the book Durrow 

Possibly from Iona, Scotland

660-680

Ink and tempera on parchment

11-18 Interior of the Palatine Chapel Charlemagne (looking east)

From Aachen, Germany

792-805

First vaulted medival structure north of the Alps

11-25A Column

Saint Michael's, Hildesheim

Bronze 

1015-1022

11-7 Cross-inscribed carpet page

Folio 26 verso of the Lindisfarne Gospels

From Northumbria, England

698-721

11-24 Longitudinal Section (top) and plan (botton) of the abbey church of Saint Michael's

From Hildesheim, Germany

1001-1031

Entry on the side, Alternating piers and columns divide the space in the nave into vertical units

11-4A Aminal-head post

From Oseber

11-15A Psalm 44, Utrecht Psalter

820-835

11-10 High Cross of Muiredach (East face)

Monaster-boice, Ireland, 923

Made of sandstone

The Islamic World

10-20A Blue Koran

Kairouan

9th to mid-10th century

surah 18 of the Koran

10-2 Dome of the Rock (looking east)

The first great Islamic building

Sacred for 

10-22 Muqarnas dome

Hall of the Abencerrajes, Palace of the Lions, Alhambra, Granada, Spain

1354-1391

10-25 Tughra of Suleyman the Magnificent

10-28  Mihrab

From the Madrasa Imami, Isfahan 

1354

10-10 Mausoleum of the Samanids (looking west)

10-1a The Horseshoe arches of the Cordoba

10-18 Pyxis of Al-Mughira

10-6 Detail of the mosaics in the courtyard arcade of the Great Mosque

Damascus, Syria

Byzantium

9-5 Aerial view of Hagia Sophia ( The church of the Holy Wisdom)

Constantinople (Istanbul)

ANTHEMIUS OF TRALLES and ISIDORUS OF MILETUS

532-537

The most magnificent of the more 30 churches in Constantinople

Become a Mosque on the Ottoman 

9-21 Katholikon (looking northeast), monastery of Hosios Loukas (Saint Luke)

Distomo, Greece

1st quarter of the 11th century

9-19 Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George

 Icon

6th or early 7th century

from Saint Catherine's monastery at Mount Sinai

Medium used is encaustic on wood

9-27 B Archangel Michael Icon 

Venice

ca. 1100

9-15 Saint Apollinaris amid sheep. apse mosaic, Sant'Apollinaire in class

Ravenna, Italy

533-549

9-35 Annunciation

Reverse of two-sided icon

From the Church of the Virgin Peribleptos, Ohrid Macedonia

Early 14th century

Tempera and linen on wood

9-14 Theodore and attendants

Mosaic on the south wall of the apse

San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy

ca.547

9-17 B Christ before Pilate

Rossano Gospels

early 6th century

9-2 Archangel Michael

Right of leaf of a diptych

early sixth century

Made of Ivory

9-34 Christ as savior of souls

Icon 

From Saint Clement at Ohrid in Macedonia

early 14th century

Tempera, linen, and silver on wood

9-13 Throne of Maximianus

ca. 546-556

 

9-24 Christ as Pantokrator

Dome mosaic in the Church of the Dormition

Daphni, Greece

ca. 1090-1100

Late Antiquity

8-8A Christ Seated

350-375

8.4 Restored cutaway view of the Christian community house

From Dura-Europos, Syria

240-256

Acommodate about 70 people

Central courtyard, a meeting hall, and a baptisery

8-1 Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus

From Rome, Italy

Made of marble

8-18 Interior of the Santa Sabina ( looking northeast )

Timber-roofed and illuminated by clerestory windows.

Rome

8-25 Miracles of Loaves and Fishes

from the top register of the nave hall of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, Italy

ca 504

8-17 Woman sacrificing at an altar

Made of ivory plaque

ca 400

8-23 Orthodox Baptistery

Ravenna

ca 458

8.18B Crucifixion

Santa Sabina, Rome

ca 432

8-13 Christ as Sol Invictus

late third century

8-15 Old Farmer of Corycus

Folio 7 verso of the Vatican Vergil

400-420

Oldest  preserved painted Greek or Latin manuscript 

8-2 Interior of the synagogue

From Dura-Europos, Syria

wall Paintings of biblical themes

245-256

8-9 Restored cutaway view of Old Saint Peter's 

(looking northwest)

Rome, Italy

Built by Constantine

8-13 Mosaic in the Ambulatory vault of Santa Costanza

Rome, Italy

337-351

it depicts Putti harvesting grapes and making wine

The scene evoked the Eucharist and Christ's blood

8-19 Exterior of Santa Sabina (looking west)

Rome, Italy

422-432