Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

Ottonian Art Charlemagne was buried in the Palatine Chapel at Aachen. His empire survived him by fewer than 30 years. When his s ...

entrances on the side, and Bernward probably was familiar with this variant basilican plan. At Hildesheim, as in the plan of the ...

Sculpture and Painting In 1001, when Bishop Bernward was in Rome visiting the young Otto III, he resided in Otto’s palace on the ...

HILDESHEIM COLUMNThe great doors of Saint Michael’s were not the only large-scale examples of bronze-casting Bernward commission ...

16-27Abbess Uta dedicating her codex to the Virgin, folio 2 recto of the Uta Codex,from Regensburg, Germany, ca. 1025. Tempera o ...

nature of medieval books as sacred objects to be venerated in their own right as well as embodiments of the eternal Word of God. ...

Otto III is portrayed in a Gospel book (FIG. 16-29) that takes his name. The illumi- nator represented the emperor enthroned, ho ...

ART OF THE WARRIOR LORDS, 5th to 10th Centuries ❚After the fall of Rome in 410, the Huns, Vandals, Merovingians, Franks, Goths, ...

17-1South portal of Saint-Pierre, Moissac, France, ca. 1115–1135. Art historians first used the term Romanesque(Roman-like) to d ...

T he Romanesque era is the first since Archaic and Classical Greece to take its name from an artistic style rather than from pol ...

T he cult ofrelicswas not new in the Roman- esque era. For centuries, Christians had trav- eled to sacred shrines that housed th ...

France and Northern Spain Although art historians use the adjective “Romanesque” to describe 11th- and 12th-century art and arch ...

ambulatory around the choir and three semicircular chapels opening onto it. These radiating chapels probably housed the church’s ...

around 1070 to honor the city’s first bishop, a martyr saint of the middle of the third century. Toulouse was an important stop ...

vault along the entire length of the nave and transferred the main thrust to the thick outer walls. The builders of Saint-Sernin ...

music, and art. Their influence and wealth grew rapidly, and they built a series of increasingly elaborate monastic churches at ...

The monastery cloisters of the 12th century are monuments to the vitality, popularity, and influence of monasticism at its peak. ...

popular in the Romanesque age. The monstrous forms were re- minders of the chaos and deformity of a world without God’s order. M ...

step. The animation of the body reveals the passionate nature of the soul within. The flowing lines of the drapery folds ultimat ...

LA MADELEINE, VÉZELAYWhile Gislebertus was at work at Autun, nearby at the church of La Madeleine (Mary Magdalene) at Vézelay an ...