art during the middle ages, medieval art 1000 years of art divided into major periods including...
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Art During the Middle Ages, Medieval Art
• 1000 years of art divided into major periods including Early Christian, Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic art
• 400-1300 AD
Sculptures, illuminated manuscripts, stained glass,
metalwork, mosaics, architecture
Medieval art reflected the growing popularity of Christianity
• Medieval artists didn’t make art in the round, or 3dimensional. Art was flat. This was because they were trying not to make false idols of their work.
The art was a fusion of art from the Middle East, Africa, and Europe
• Interlaced patterns and geometric forms
• Were common
Early Christian Art
• Began using religious iconography
• Icon:object, character, figure, or color used to represent abstract ideas or concepts
• Ex:Matthew: Angel (man) Mark: Lion Luke: Ox John: Eagle
• Anchor-Hope• Apple-original sin• Ashes- humiliation• Books-Show how
educated the Saints were.
• Butterfly-resurrection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gqHOjCNMTk
Nobles began reading during
the Middle Ages.
Illuminated manuscripts• Called this because
they often had gold leafing on the pages
• Artists would travel around the country looking for work. The best held rank of court artist.
• Very expensive books
The Book of Hours-illuminated manuscripts found in the homes of the wealthy. Used for their prayers
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuNfdHNTv9o
Byzantine art is the name for the artistic products of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, as well as the nations and states that
inherited culturally from the empire.
• Almost all art from this period has to do with Christianity
Byzantine Mosaics
• Over 10,000 craftsmen were employed to decorate a cathedral
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM5DESzGhDw
Romanesque
• Refers to the architecture, which retained many basic features of Roman architectural style – most notably round-headed arches, barrel vaults, apses, and leaf decoration
The decoration is often quite simple, using geometric shapes rather than floral designs
.
barrel vaulting -simple, semicircular roof vaults
Apse• a semicircular recess
covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an Exedra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xff4Z5xMMro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPAgU39b0PI
Gothic Art
• Style that developed out of Northern France and spread to the rest of Europe.
• Secular art is starting to be produced because people other than the church can now buy art. Secular art is art that is separate from Christian art.
The word Gothic means barbaric
• Other artists and art critics thought the work was barbaric. Raphael made this statement:
• the pointed arches of northern architecture were an echo of the primitive huts the Germanic forest dwellers formed by bending trees together
Gothic Architecture
• characteristics include the pointed arch, the ribbed vault and the flying buttress
Pointed arch:
Ribbed Vault: This type of vaulting allowed for the addition of windows higher up in the building's
walls
Flying Buttress• They resisted the lateral
forces pushing a wall outwards by redirecting them to the ground.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ux4LC1kdQI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMwnyWP52Ys
Which type of architecture is the National Cathedral in Washington D.C.
Byzantine, Romanesque, or Gothic?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAalbbkeL0whttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAFoH8QNZfo
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un2qxIlqLP8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqzq01i2O3U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFcF_qfLHeQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhiIFXS9C6Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV7CanyzhZg&list=PLy0B6ncmGtqcLNRmMA43e2cNFD2v5ZoF2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4zQnNLRW3w