ARTHIST 101D Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Skellig Michael, Oseberg Ship, Ship Burial
10 May 2018
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Lecture 23
Classical values
Proportional systems
Stability
Idealized beauty, graceful
Physicality, body, 3D
Continuous narrative frieze
Precision
Balance (contrapposto) and equilibrium
High level of skill in making
Heroicized, Apollonic
Suicide of Judas and the Crucifixion of Christ
Ivory
Early 5th century
Christ as the Good Shepherd
Marble
Christ as a heroic young man who embodied perfection
Christ as the Good Shepherd
Galla Placidia, Ravenna
425
Mosaic
Spatially separated by a cliff
Parking of Lot and Abraham
Rome, Sta. Maria Maggiore
432-440
Cartoon-like depiction, no proportions
The wooden doors of Sta. Sabina, Rome
432
Scale representations that show importance of person (reminiscent of Egypt’s Palette of King
Narmer)
Art brought over by the Visigoths, Franks, Goths, etc. (barbarian art)
Merovingian looped fibulae from Jouy-le Comte
France (the Franks)
550
Silver with gem inlays
The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
England
7th century
The Sutton Hoo helmet
o Low relief representations of chieftans
Purse cover
Belt buckle
Celtic
7th century
Barbaric art also embodied a high level of skill
Oseberg, Norway: ship burial
825
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