Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

1220s.Moralized Bibles are heavily illustrated, each page pairing paintings of Old and New Testament episodes with explanations ...

his young apprentice. The scribe already has divided his page into two columns of four roundels each, a format often used for th ...

the other scene, he entertains them while his wife Sarah peers at them from a tent. The figures’ delicate features and the linea ...

Perhaps the finest of these costly statuettes is the large silver-gilt figurine known as the Virgin of Jeanne d’Evreux (FIG. 18- ...

One of the most interesting objects of this type is a woman’s jewelry box adorned with ivory relief panels. The theme of the pan ...

the three-part division of the interior (nave and two aisles). Differ- ent too is the emphasis on the great crossing tower (adde ...

late English Gothic style is on display in the choir (FIG. 18-42) of Gloucester Cathedral, remodeled about a century after Salis ...

the eternal repose of their souls. Toward that end, the highborn and wealthy endowed whole chapels for the chanting of masses (c ...

Revival structure is the largest cathedral in northern Europe and boasts a giant (422-foot- long) nave (FIG. 18-46) with two ais ...

Virgin, forming an arc of mourners well suited to the semicircular frame. The sculptor adjusted the heights of the figures to fi ...

The period costumes and the individualized features and personalities of the margrave and his wife give the im- pression that th ...

Throughout Europe, the humanizing of religious themes and religious images accelerated steadily from the 12th century. By the 14 ...

and literature (see “Jewish Subjects in Christian Art,” Chapter 11, page 293). Nicholas of Verdun’s gold figures stand out vivid ...

FRANCE ❚The birthplace of Gothic art and architecture was Saint-Denis, where Abbot Suger used rib vaults with pointed arches and ...

19-1Giotto di Bondone,Arena Chapel (Cappella Scrovegni; interior looking west), Padua, Italy, 1305–1306. Giotto, widely regarded ...

W hen the Italian humanists of the 16th century condemned the art of the late Middle Ages in north- ern Europe as “Gothic”(see C ...

pages 296–297, or xxvi–xxvii in Volume II), including the Annuncia- tion(top left), the Nativity(centerand lower half), and the ...

GIOVANNI PISANONicola Pisano’s son,Giovanni Pisano (ca. 1250–1320), likewise became a sought-after sculptor of church pulpits. G ...

BONAVENTURA BERLINGHIERI One of the leading painters working in the Italo-Byzantine style, or maniera greca (Greek style), was B ...

the ogival arches punctuate the nave,or central aisle.(For the no- menclature ofbasilicanchurch architecture, see FIG. 11-9or pa ...