Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

The origins of the monastic movement are associated with Saint Anthony and Saint Pachomius in Egypt in the fourth century. By th ...

hidden barbarian recoils in fear behind him. The dynamic twisting postures of both horse and rider and the motif of the equestri ...

ARCHANGEL MICHAEL IVORY Another ivory panel (FIG. 12-15), created somewhat earlier than the Barberini Ivory and like- wise carve ...

painters copied the illustrations as well as the text of a classical manu- script. One page, however, cannot be a copy—the dedic ...

326 Chapter 12 BYZANTIUM B yzantine icons(“images” in Greek) are small portable paint- ings depicting Christ, the Virgin, or sai ...

ICONSGospel books such as the Rabbula Gospels played an im- portant role in monastic religious life. So, too, did icons,which al ...

of the great church, the figures look undersized, but the seated Theotokos is more than 16 feet tall. An accompanying inscriptio ...

HOSIOS LOUKAS Although the new emperors did not wait long to redecorate the churches of their predecessors, they undertook littl ...

DAPHNIMuch of the original mosaic decora- tion of the Hosios Loukas Katholikon does not sur- vive, but at Daphni, near Athens, t ...

mosaicist’s art also occurred in areas of the former Western Roman Empire where the ties with Constantinople were the strongest. ...

NORMAN SICILYVenetian success was matched in the western Mediterranean by the Normans, the northern French descendants of the Vi ...

12-26Christ enthroned with saints (Harbaville Triptych), ca. 950. Ivory, central panel 9–^12  5 –^12 . Louvre, Paris. In this ...

(FIG. 12-27). It is an image of passionate grief. The artist captured Christ’s followers in attitudes, expressions, and gestures ...

with astonishing authority. Art historians believe the manuscript dates from the mid-10th century—the so-called Macedonian Re- n ...

accursed Latins would plunder our wealth and wipe out our race.... Between us there can be only an unbridgeable gulf of hatred.. ...

many earlier Byzantine frescoes and mosaics are gone in a return to the fluid delineation of drapery characteristic of the long ...

authority, the angel Gabriel announces to Mary that she is to be the Mother of God. She responds with a simple gesture conveying ...

EARLY BYZANTINE ART, 527–726 ❚The reign of Justinian (r. 527–565) opened the first golden age of Byzantine art. Justinian was a ...

13-1Court of the Lions, Palace of the Lions, Alhambra, Granada, Spain, 1354–1391. The Palace of the Lions, named for its fountai ...

T he religion of Islam (an Arabic word meaning “submission to God”) arose among the peoples of the Arabian Peninsula early in th ...