Art History/Europe

• Early Christian Art,
• Byzantine Art,
• Insular Art,
• Migration Period Art,
• Islamic Art,
• Pre-Romanesque Art,
• Romanesque Art,
• Gothic Art, and
• Renaissance Art

-incorporates Christianity

• -popular in Roman Eastern Empire
• -all people face forward
• -important people are in the center, are higher, and have a halo or gold background if divine
• -best pieces were murals and frescoes

• -popular in Great Britain
• -a fusion between Celtic art and Migration Period art of the Anglo-Saxons
• -large production of books, high crosses, and other Christian art

• -art of "barbarians" (non-Greeks?)
• -from Eastern Europe

• -the art of Muslim peoples in Islamic Spain and Northern Africa
• -in religious art there were no living creatures, as the creation of living things was believed to be unique to God

• -romanesque means descended from Romans
• -in this period, Roman Classical Art shows up in lots of architecture and other art forms

• -straighter lines, columns, thick walls, round windows and arches
• -short, squat structures
• -first time (since Ancient Rome) Roman forms of architecture are clearly used

• -the term gothic was first used as an insult, meaning "medieval, barbarous, not classical"
• -there were pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and flying buttresses
• -4 main crafts of the Gothic Period:
• frescoes
• panel paintings
• illuminated manuscripts
• and stained glass

• -more realistic than previous art
• -components that made paintings and frescoes more realistic were the uses of proportion, perspective, shading & lighting

picture or decorative design made by small colored pieces of stone, tile glass, etc. set in a surface (usually stone or glass)

mural made on a wet plaster wall

Islamic region of Spain

handwritten, decorated text

Fun Fact!: sometimes gold or silver inks were used