01:082:111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sutton Hoo, Viking Art, Illuminated Manuscript
19 Dec 2016
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850 ce: encompasses migration art, anglo-saxon art, hiberno-saxon art, etc, objects from sutton hoo (ca. 625), viking art, and insular manuscript illumination (ireland & england: style characterized by anticlassicism (profusion of ornamental complexity through interlaced animal and geometric forms. Purse cover, gold with garnets and enamels, from sutton hoo ship burial, Gold buckle, from sutton hoo ship burial, england, ca. 625 ce: patterns that curve into each other, personal accessory, interlacing forms are typical, shows curving bands and ribbons interlacing each other, some have animal heads, visualization f a teeming pit of interlaced snakes, motif; highly dispersive. 625: would have kept on a cloak, compartments that made geometric patterns are enamel, have interlaced animals on borders. There in the harbour was a ring-prowed fighting. Of their ring-giving lord, and laid him near. [from the anglo-saxon epic poem, beowulf : tradition originated with viking burials, burial in a ship is a high honour.
