Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

shrine of the ruler’s first wife, stands several feet tall. Some scholars have interpreted the bird at the top as symbolizing th ...

names is “great head.” At such personal altars, the king and other high-ranking officials made sacrifices to their own power and ...

SAPI SALTCELLARSThe Portuguese commissions included del- icate spoons, forks, and elaborate containers usually referred to as sa ...

PREHISTORY AND EARLY CULTURES, ca. 25,000 BCE–1000 CE ❚Humankind apparently originated in Africa, and some of the oldest known a ...

16-1Cross-inscribed carpet page, folio 26 verso of the Lindisfarne Gospels,from Northumbria, England, ca. 698–721. Tempera on ve ...

T he half millennium between 500 and 1000 was the great formative period of western medieval art,* a time of great innovation th ...

(see Chapter 12). Anglo-Saxons controlled what had been Roman Britain. Celts inhabited France and parts of the British Isles, in ...

ship set adrift in the North Sea overflowing with arms and armor and costly adornments: They laid their dear lord, the giver of ...

effects of jewelry designs in the painted decorations of manuscripts, in the masonry of churches, and in sculpture in stone and ...

the Irish-English islands where it was produced, flourished within the monasteries of the British Isles. Its most distinctive pr ...

also contains pages where the illuminator enormously enlarged the initial letters of an important passage of sacred text and tra ...

LINDISFARNE GOSPELSThe marriage between Christian imagery and the animal-interlace style of the northern warlords is evident in ...

The page reproduced here (FIG. 16-8) opens the account of the nativity of Jesus in the Gospel of Saint Matthew. The initial lett ...

VISIGOTHIC SPAINWhen Muslim armies crossed into Spain from North Africa in 711 (see Chapter 13), they brought Islam to a land th ...

The “Carolingian Renaissance” was a remarkable historical phe- nomenon, an energetic, brilliant emulation of the art, culture, a ...

ion. The portrait proclaimed the renovatio of the Roman Empire’s power and trappings. CORONATION GOSPELS Charlemagne was a since ...

UTRECHT PSALTEROne of the most extraordinary medieval manuscripts is the Utrecht Psalter.The text reproduces the Psalms of David ...

ivory plaque (FIG. 11-22) from Italy in the British Museum. In con- trast, the four angels and the personifications of the Moon ...

SAINT GALLThe construction and expansion of many mon- asteries also characterized the Carolingian period. A unique docu- ment, t ...

rather than in front of its main portal. Reserved for the monks alone, the cloister, a kind of earthly paradise removed from the ...