Early Medieval Art in Europe

Emeterius and Senior, colophon page, from commentary on the apocalypse by Beatus and Cmmentary on Daniel by Jerome, Tempera on Parchment, 970 CE

-Depicts monastart with scriptorium and tower which call monks to pray every dat. Scriptorium is where texts were copied, learning kept alive here after the fall of the Roman Empire. The tower is of a monastery at San Salvadore. Person who writes commentary is usually highly educated scholar. Images are based on commentary.
-Colophon (page at the end of a book with information about its production)
-Islamic style with christian subject matter. Brightly glazed tiles in geometric patterns and horseshoe arched openings are a common feature of islamic architecture.

Brescia Cross, Gilded Silver, wood, jewels, glass, cameos, etc. Late 7th early 9th century
-shape of byzantine cross inset with many jewels, cameos, glass. Made of silver with gold sheeting. Mixes eastern ad western pieces (barbaric and roman art). Has real roman cameos inlaid in it (carved stone to reveal an image) and fake barbarian made cameos as well.
-byzantine cross form has eqaual arms widening at the ends joined by a central disc with a relief figure of christ enthroned in a jeweled mandorla.
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Purse cover from burial ship at sutton hoo, England, Coisonne plaques of gold, garney, and chekered millefiore glass. First half of 7th century
-sutton hoo=burial site of scandinavian king
Clausinae-metal work which creates compartments when glass or precious gems can be inlaid. Abstract geometric patterns in parts (with interlaced design) would have had ivory or bone backing, and set upon a leather purse.
-Central plaque of four animals with long interlacind legs and jaws. Large hawksa attack ducks,a nd men are spread eagled between two rampant beasts.
-Bright read and gold colors reflect eastern eurpoean tradition.

Chi Rho Iota page (matthew 1:18), Book of Kells, late 8th early 9th ventury. oxgall inks, pigments on vellum, probably made at iona.
-four scribes and three major illuminators worked on it. 185 calves slaughtered to make the vellum
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Queen's burial ship from oseberg norway, c 815-820 ad, wooden, shallow hull, burial 834 ad
-Designed to sail the inlaid waters of norway. used for burial. women buried in this chamber were laid in blankets (handmaidens) animal interlace design (elongated animals turned into ribbons and interweaved into each other)
-this boat had a sail.
The scandinavians ruled the seas in the north atlantic for about 800 years. Peack of the prow is in a serpentine shape.

Abbey of St Gall,m St. Gallen, Switzerland, c 817, plan and reconstruction
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Psalm 23 from tUtrecht Psalter ink, vellum or parchment, 825-50
-"the lord is my shepard, i shall not want"
-king david sits in front of a dtable laden with food: heholds a cup. He is portrayed as a shepherd in a pasture filled with sheep, goats, and cattle
-"though preparest a table before me win the presence of mine enemies" the enemies gahter at the lower right and showt arros, but the spalmist and angel ignore them and focus on the table and the hosue of the lord.
-illustration conveys the characteristically slose association ebtween text and illustration in corolingian art.