Arts During Medieval Period Flashcards
(50 cards)
The ______________ of the Western world covers a vast scope of time and place, over __________ of art history in Europe, and at times the Middle East and North Africa. It includes major art movements and periods, national and regional art, genres, revivals, the artists crafts, and the artists themselves.
Medieval Art
1000 years
Art historians attempt to classify ____________ into major periods and styles, often with some difficulty.
medieval art
A generally accepted scheme includes
_______________________________________.
In addition each region, mostly during the period in the process of becoming nations or cultures, had its own distinct artistic style, such as Anglo-Saxon art or Norse art.
Early Christian art, Migration Period art, Byzantine art, Insular art, Pre- Romanesque and Romanesque art, and Gothic art, as well as many other periods within these central styles.
The medieval art, in its earliest form, was most often found in the _______, being shown in the architecture, the murals and panels found in the religious setting.
Church
As was typical and to be expected with artwork that originated in the church, the subjects were religious in nature, frequently showing stories from the _________________ often placing them side by side.
Old and New Testaments
The lives of the saints were also commonly shown. Early medieval art forms portrayed their subjects, such as the _________________________.
Virgin Mary, as iconic and somewhat two dimensional.
__________________ and architecture is the art produced by __________________. Prior to 100 there is no surviving art that can be called Christian with absolute certainty. After about 500, Christian art shows the beginnings of _________________.
Early Christian art
Christians or under Christian patronage from about the year 100 to about the year 500
Byzantine artistic style.
The Good Shepherd:
Early Christian catacomb art.
_______________ denotes the artwork of the Germanic peoples during the Migration period (ca. 300-900).
Migration Period art
It includes the Migration art of the Germanic tribes on the continent, as well as the start of the ___________________. It covers many different styles of art including the polychrome style and the animal style.
Insular art or Hiberno-Saxon art of the Anglo-Saxon and Celtic fusion in the British Isles.
_______________ from the 7th century Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo. Alternate view. British Museum.
Shoulder-clasps
______________ is the term commonly used to describe the artistic products of the Byzantine Empire from about 4th century until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.
Byzantine art
The most famous of the surviving Byzantine mosaics of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople -___________________
Christ is flanked by the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist. The mosaics were made in the _____________
the image of Christ Pantocrator on the walls of the upper southern gallery
12th century
______________, also known as Hiberno-Saxon art, is the style of art produced in the post- Roman history of Ireland and Great Britain.
Insular art
The term derives from _________________ in this period Britain and Ireland shared a largely common style different from that of the rest of Europe.
Insular Art
insula, the Latin term for “island”
Arts historians usually group insular art as part of the _______________ movement as well as Early Medieval Western art, and it is the combination of these two traditions that give the style its special character.
Migration Period art
This page of the Book of Kells contains the lavishly decorated text that opens the _____________.
Gospel of John.
______________ and architecture is the period in Western European art from either the emergence of the Merovingian kingdom in about 500 or from the Carolingian Renaissance in the late 8th century, to the beginning of the 11th century Romanesque period.
Pre-Romanesque art
The royal palace, later church, of _____________, an example of Asturian architecture of the Ramirense period.
Santa María del Naranco
_______________ refers to the art of Western Europe from approximately __________ to the rise of the Gothic style in the 13th century, or later, depending on region. The preceding period is increasingly known as the Pre- Romanesque.
Romanesque art
1000 AD
______________, detached from the Winchester Bible of 1160- 75. Scenes from the life of David.
“The Morgan Leaf”
was a Medieval art movement that developed in France out of Romanesque art in the mid-12th century, led by the concurrent development of Gothic architecture.
Gothic Art
It spread to all of Western Europe, but took over art more completely north of the Alps, never quite effacing more classical styles in Italy. In the late 14th century, the sophisticated court style of International Gothic developed, which continued to evolve until the late 15th century.
Gothic Art
These architectural statues are the earliest Gothic sculptures and were a revolution in style and the model for a generation of sculptors.
The Western (Royal) Portal at Chartres Cathedral (ca. 1145).
