The Migration Period

Vocabulary

• Filigree

• Cloisonné enamel

• Fibula

• Insular

• Manuscript

• Illumination

• Codex

• Interlace

• Tonsure

• Vellum

• Parchment

• Scriptorium

• Choir

• Piers

• Nave arcade

• Alternating Support System

The Early Middle Ages in the West• Romans leave Northern Europe• Migration Period- Different Barbarian tribes move in from the

East• Angles and Saxons move across the channel to Britain forcing

the Britons and Celts westward• Gothic Tribes moved westward within Europe and converted

to Christianity• Art: Stuck between two periods of naturalism-Classical

Antiquity and the Renaissance• Familiar with Roman influence• Created a visual imagery of their own political claim to the

land

Visigothic,Eagle Brooch,

6th century, Spain

•Cloisonné enamel•Filigree•Visigoths

Norse, Gummersmark

Brooch, Denmark, 6th

century

Anglo-Saxon, Purse Cover, Sutton Hoo Ship Burial, England, 625

•King Raedwald

Celtic Christian,

South Cross of Ahenny, Co.

TipperaryIreland,

8th century

High Cross of Muiredach,

Celtic Christian, Co. Louth, 923

Hiberno-Saxon, Book of Durrow,

St. Matthew, Britain, 660-680

•Insular•Codex•Manuscript Illumination•Author page•tonsure

Book of Durrow, St. Mark

•Author Page

Hiberno-Saxon, Lindisfarne

Gospels, Cross-Carpet Page,

Britain, 689-721

•Carpet page

Hiberno-Saxon, The Book of

Kells, Chi-Rho page, Iona,

Britain, ca. 800

•Initial page•Christi autem generatio

Detail of Chi RhoBook of Kells

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Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne, Aachen, Germany, 792-805

Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne

San Vitale, Ravenna, 547

Plan of Saint Gall monastery, Switzerland, ca. 819

Plan of Saint Gall monastery, Switzerland, ca. 819

Saint Matthew, Coronation Gospels of

Charlemagne, Aachen,

Germany, ca. 800-810

Carolingian, St. Matthew, Ebbo

Gospels, 816-35, France

•Charlemagne•Monastery•Scriptorium

•Hiberno-Saxon, Lindisfarne Gospels, St. Matthew, 698-72, Britain

•Hiberno-Saxon, Codex Amiatinus, The Scribe Ezra, 689-716, Britain

Crucifixion, cover of the

Lindau Gospels from Saint Gall, Switzerland, ca.

870

Carolingian, Equestrian Statue of

Charlemagne, 9th century,

France

•Renovatio Romani Imperii•Holy Roman Empire 800-843

Carolingian, Lorsch Torhalle, 9th century, Germany

Norse, Lion Head Post, Oseberg Ship Burial, 825

Ottonian, Gospel Book of Otto III, Otto Enthroned,

Germany, 997-1000

•Holy Roman Empire 963-1002

St. Michael’s Church, Hildesheim, Germany, 1001-31

St. Michael’s plan

Ottonian, St. Michael’s, 1001-1031, Germany

•Choir•Piers•Nave arcade•Alternating Support System

Bronze doors, St. Michael’s,

Hildesheim, Germany, 1015

Ottonian, Bronze Column,

St. Michael’s, 1022