A History of European Art

But does it? No, it is merely much closer to our own time and free from references drawn from anything outside itself. The pleas ...

Lecture 1: Approaches to European Art Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People, 1830, oil on canvas, 8’ 6 ¼” x 10’ 8” (260 x ...

Acton, Learning to Look at Paintings. Janson, History of Art. Kleiner and Mamiya, Gardner’s Art Through the Ages. Differentiate ...

Lecture 2: Carolingian and Ottonian Art Carolingian and Ottonian Art ........................................................... ...

animals—snakelike bodies with birdlike beaks—and, in part, of circles and sweeping, interlaced curves. The Romans themselves, be ...

Lecture 2: Carolingian and Ottonian Art seen at San Vitale. Its massive, muscular appearance is more reminiscent of Roman archit ...

century. Crowned at Aachen, Otto and his successors of the same name thus succeeded Charlemagne in place as in power. These king ...

Lecture 2: Carolingian and Ottonian Art in the old Cathedral of Bayeux, recognizing William’s right to the English throne after ...

John Beckwith, Early Medieval Art: Carolingian, Ottonian, Romanesque. Lawrence Nees, Early Medieval Art. What function did narr ...

Lecture 3: Romanesque Sculpture and Architecture Romanesque Sculpture and Architecture ......................................... ...

The Romanesque style arose at a turning point in Western political history, when empires that Charlemagne and Otto the Great had ...

Lecture 3: Romanesque Sculpture and Architecture constructed. Another legend recounted James’s miraculous appearance in the earl ...

Conques is a town on a pilgrimage route between Le Puy and Moissac, on the way to Toulouse. The town contains a church dedicated ...

Lecture 3: Romanesque Sculpture and Architecture (c. 1120–1132). The abbey’s greatest historical fame is connected to the Crusad ...

Last Judgment, c. 1130, from the tympanum of the portal, Church of St. Foy, Conques, France. Prophet Isaiah, c. 12th century, Ch ...

Lecture 3: Romanesque Sculpture and Architecture What were the primary cultural, political, and historical inÀ uences on Romane ...

Gothic Art in France .......................................................................... Lecture 4 The term Gothic is so ...

Lecture 4: Gothic Art in France buttresses—to contain the pressures. Apparent from a view of the nave, much of the upper wall, t ...

particularly on feast days. Excessive crowding on holy days was one reason for his determination to enlarge the narthex. We now ...

Lecture 4: Gothic Art in France kings and queens of France were spiritual heirs of the biblical rulers. This idea haunted many c ...