Title: Early Medieval Art
1Early Medieval Art
2Purse cover, from the Sutton Hoo ship burial
(Suffolk, England), c. 625, gold, glass, and
enamel cloisonné with garnets and emeralds
3art of migratory people/ predatory subject
matter/ interlaced pattern
4Cross and carpet page from the Lindisfarne
Gospels (Northumbria, England), c. 698-721,
tempera on vellumHiberno-Saxon, or Insular/
Celtic cross with a transom
5use of serpents, dragons, and other fantastic
animals
6rubrum (entry in red)/ minium/ incipit and
explicit
7varied styles within the Book of Lindisfarne/
sacred act of copying images/ amarius and a
scriptorium
8Chi-rho-iota page from the Book of Kells (Iona,
Scotland), late eighth or early ninth
centuryuse of abbreviations/ chi-rho iota/
curves and ripples
9inclusion of human and animal shapes
10High Cross of Muiredach (Monasterboice, County
Louth, Ireland), 923large mass and scale/
church above the transom/ wheel and the circle
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12Animal head post, from the Oseberg ship burial
(Norway), c. 825, woodVikings/ fusion of
interlaced pattern and the animal form/ gruesome
rituals of human sacrifice/Odin, Thor, and Freya/
Valhalla/ stave church
13Two views of the Oseberg ship (Oslo)
14Left Wood carved portal of the stave church at
Urnes, Norway, c. 1050-1070Below drawing of a
stave church
15Equestrian portrait of Charlemagne (Metz,
Germany), early ninth century
16Saint Matthew from the Coronation Gospel Book of
Charlemagne (Aachen, Germany), c. 800-810, ink
and tempera on vellumCharlemagne and Aachen
(Aix-la-Chapelle)/ reliance on prototypes for
artistic inspiration (i.e. the Mediterranean
style)/ Caroline minuscule
17Saint Matthew from the Ebbo Gospels (Hautvillers,
near Reims, France), c. 816-835, ink and tempera
on vellumclassical calm replaced by a frenzy of
energy
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19Saint Luke from the Ebbo Gospels (Hautvillers,
near Reims, France), c. 816-835, ink and tempera
on vellum
20Illustrations to Psalms 43 and 44, from the
Utrecht Psalter, c. 820-32 CE
21Cover of the Psalter of Charles the Bald (St.
Denis, France), c. 865, ivory panel set in
silver-gilt with filigree work and precious
stonesrich, decorated surfaces/ continued
intellectual and artistic endeavors during the
Carolingian period
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23Left front cover of the Lindau Gospels, c. 870,
goldBelow back cover
24Odo of Metz. Interior of the Palatine Chapel of
Charlemagne (Aachen, Germany), 792-805modeled
after San Vitale/ second-storied throne
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