ART 353 Study Guide - Spring 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Jesus, Paganism, Mary Of Bethany
12 Oct 2018
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ART 353 01
Ideas for Finding a Research Topic/“Finding a Muse”
- Heilbrunn’s Timeline for Art History
- Organized, edited, and managed by the Met
- Find a piece, discuss it, the culture it’s from, the pagan symbolism behind it, what it has
to do with the Medieval era
- Your role is to educate your reader and argue a side
- It would help to pick a work that its symbol is in the other works as well
- Let the argument fuel your paper
- Create questions to answer in your paper
Stavelot Triptych from modern Belgium (Stavelot Town, Stavelot Abbey)
- c. 1156 CE (about 6 years after the Church of Saint Denis was made, so it’s early, early
Gothic)
- Middle panel created about 100 years before the rest of the item
- Reliquary for a small part of the “True Cross”
- Arma christi - relics from the Passion of the Christ (torture objects, the cross,
crown)
- Mosan, from the Mose Valley in Stavelot
- Extremely ornate, stunning, complex
- Hinges, can open and close, can travel well
- Triptych-ception (two smaller triptychs are in the middle panel)
- Middle panel
- Who made it? What was it for?
- Smallest triptych: Jesus on the cross, Mary, John the Baptist
- Middle-sized triptych: early Christian martyr, Byzantine generals (who are now
recognized as saints), beautiful tessere, Constantine and Helena (his mother),
archangels are higher-ranking angels, Gabriel and Michael are depicted here
- Left panel (read bottom to top)
- All about Constantine’s Christian life
- Bottom picture: In Hoc Signa moment, when Constantine has the dream of the
symbol of God
- Middle picture: Battle of Milvian Bridge (where he defeated Maxentius)
- Top picture: Constantine getting baptized and immediately dying
- Right panel (read
- All about Helena’s looking for the Cross
- Bottom picture: She’s asking where the True Cross is
- Middle picture: Looking for the True Cross
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- Top picture: Found the True Cross! And a man is taking away the untrue crosses
on the right
Religion
- There were a ton of Jewish people in Egypt and they were kept there as slaves
- Abraham promised to free them, so there was a mass exodus (cue the book of the Bible
called “Exodus”
- The Temple Mount (Jerusalem)
- Area where the first and second Jewish temples (the second one being the one that
Titus destroyed)
- Area where Mohammed ascended into Heaven
- Important spot to three major religions in the world, so it was controversial then
and today
- Arch of Titus, Rome, 81 CE, marble over concrete
- Late Roman
- SPQR - Senatus Populusque Romanus
- The Jewish people had obvious differences from the Roman people
- Romans’ legacy is conquering the most they could, the Middle east was the
easiest
- One side of the Arch: a winged Titus coming home, showing off the spoils of war,
walking through a triumphant arch
- Menorah, Jewish offerings (12 loaves of bread)
The Bible
- Old Testament
- The Jewish Torah and the first five books of the Old testament
- New Testament
- Tell of Jesus’ life, genealogy of Jesus
- Were kind of floating around until 382, when Pope Damasus I told Saint Jerome
to translate what they had into a more readable version of Latin
- 1455 - first bible printed (between 382 and 1455 all copies of the bible were
copied by hand, and that’s the Medieval Period
- Gospels - “good news” written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
- Acts of apostles, written by Paul (who used to be named Saul), post Jesus
- Christian counsels, how Christianity is playing out (Corinthians get instructions)
- GNOSTIC BIBLES
- Gnosis = knowledge
- Discovered in 1945 by a shepherd in Nag Hammadi
- Huge, clay holder with tons of books inside that were the Gnostic Bibles
- The shepherds mother actually burned a few, but 58 survived
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Document Summary
Ideas for finding a research topic/ finding a muse . Organized, edited, and managed by the met. Find a piece, discuss it, the culture it"s from, the pagan symbolism behind it, what it has to do with the medieval era. It would help to pick a work that its symbol is in the other works as well. Your role is to educate your reader and argue a side. Create questions to answer in your paper. Stavelot triptych from modern belgium (stavelot town, stavelot abbey: 1156 ce (about 6 years after the church of saint denis was made, so it"s early, early. Middle panel created about 100 years before the rest of the item. Reliquary for a small part of the true cross . Arma christi - relics from the passion of the christ (torture objects, the cross, crown) Mosan, from the mose valley in stavelot. Hinges, can open and close, can travel well.
