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Early Medieval
Art
Purse cover, from the Sutton Hoo ship burial (Suffolk, England), c. 625, gold, glass, and
enamel cloisonné with garnets and emeralds
art of migratory people/ predatory subject matter/ interlaced pattern
Cross and carpet page from the
Lindisfarne Gospels
(Northumbria, England), c. 698-721, tempera on
vellum
Hiberno-Saxon, or Insular/ Celtic cross with a
transom
use of serpents, dragons, and other fantastic animals
rubrum (“entry in red”)/ minium/ incipit
and explicit
varied styles within the Book of Lindisfarne/
sacred act of copying images/ amarius and a
scriptorium
Chi-rho-iota page from the Book of
Kells (Iona, Scotland), late eighth or early ninth century
use of abbreviations/ chi-
rho iota/ curves and ripples
inclusion of human and
animal shapes
High Cross of Muiredach
(Monasterboice, County Louth, Ireland), 923
large mass and scale/ church
above the transom/ wheel and the circle
Animal head post, from the Oseberg
ship burial (Norway), c. 825, wood
Vikings/ fusion of interlaced pattern
and the animal form/ gruesome rituals of
human sacrifice/Odin, Thor, and Freya/ Valhalla/
stave church
Two views of the Oseberg ship (Oslo)
Left: Wood carved portal of the stave church at Urnes,
Norway, c. 1050-1070
Below: drawing of a stave church
Equestrian portrait of Charlemagne
(Metz, Germany), early ninth century
Saint Matthew from the Coronation Gospel Book of Charlemagne
(Aachen, Germany), c. 800-810, ink and tempera on vellum
Charlemagne and Aachen (Aix-la-
Chapelle)/ reliance on prototypes for artistic inspiration
(i.e. the Mediterranean style)/ Caroline
minuscule
Saint Matthew from the Ebbo
Gospels (Hautvillers, near Reims, France), c. 816-835, ink and tempera on
vellum
classical calm replaced by a
frenzy of energy
Saint Luke from the Ebbo Gospels
(Hautvillers, near Reims,
France), c. 816-835, ink and tempera on
vellum
Illustrations to Psalms 43 and 44,
from the Utrecht Psalter, c. 820-32 CE
Cover of the Psalter of Charles
the Bald (St. Denis, France), c. 865,
ivory panel set in silver-gilt with
filigree work and precious stones
rich, decorated surfaces/ continued
intellectual and artistic endeavors
during the Carolingian period
Left: front cover of the Lindau Gospels,
c. 870, goldBelow: back cover
Odo of Metz. Interior of the
Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne
(Aachen, Germany), 792-
805
modeled after San Vitale/ second-storied throne
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