USED IN LESSON

1. Early
Medieval
Art

2. Purse cover, from the Sutton Hoo ship burial
(Suffolk, England), c. 625, gold, glass, and enamel
cloisonné with garnets and emeralds

3. art of migratory people/
predatory subject matter/ interlaced pattern

4. 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

5. use of serpents, dragons, and other fantastic animals

6. rubrum (“entry in
red”)/ minium/ incipit
and explicit

7. varied styles within the
Book of Lindisfarne/
sacred act of copying
images/ amarius and a
scriptorium

8. 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

9. inclusion of
human and
animal shapes

10. High Cross of
Muiredach
(Monasterboice,
County Louth,
Ireland), 923
large mass and
scale/ church
above the
transom/ wheel
and the circle

12. 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

13. Two views of the Oseberg
ship (Oslo)

14. Left: Wood carved
portal of the stave
church at Urnes,
Norway,
c. 1050-1070
Below: drawing of a
stave church

15. Equestrian portrait of
Charlemagne
(Metz, Germany),
early ninth century

16. 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

17. 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

19. Saint Luke from
the Ebbo Gospels
(Hautvillers, near
Reims, France),
c. 816-835, ink
and tempera on
vellum

20. Illustrations to Psalms
43 and 44,
from the Utrecht
Psalter, c. 820-32 CE

21. 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

23. Left: front cover of the
Lindau Gospels,
c. 870, gold
Below: back cover

24. Odo of Metz.
Interior of the
Palatine Chapel of
Charlemagne
(Aachen, Germany),
792-805
modeled after San
Vitale/ second-
storied throne