AHIS BC 1001x Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cappella Palatina, Gabriel, Winchester Bible
7 Dec 2016
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Embroidery is only for women, menial labor, which is why medievalists called it a tapestry. Two story elevation, large nave archade, mosaic. Sicily is a cultural exchange center in mediterranean. Right: really islamicized (left), luke, gospels of otto ii, c. 1000, ottonian (reichenau) (right) joh, from the gospel book of abbot wedricus. Abbot helps john write the gospel (little man on the right) Mouth of hell, winchester psalter (contains the psalms) Angel is locking the damned in hell. Christ is alive, triumphant, and god-like (de-emphasizing human experience and suffering; emphasizing divine status) Kings and queens of judea (jamb figures), chartres, gothic, c. 1145-1155. Elongated and stylized, repeated, stretched out folds. South transept portal jamb, statues, chartres, gothic, c. 1215-1220 (same church as above) The far left figure looks different than the other three. Annunciation and visitation, reims, gothic, c. 1230-1250. Graphic- refers to 2d status; plastic- refers to 3d.
