Humanities

Muhammad Placing the Black Stone on his Cloak, illuminated manuscript, 1315

mosque lamp, glass, Egypt c. 1329-1335

Taj-Mahal, India, 1632-1647

The Last Judgment, tympanum-west portal, Sainte-Foy, France, c. 1065

Effigy tomb of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Fontevrault Abbey, France, c. 1202

palace chapel at Aachen, Odo of Metz, c. 792-805

Exterior-Chartres Cathedral, France, c. 1134-1513

Flying buttresses, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris, c. 1211-1290

The Tree of Jesse window, Chatres Cathedral, France, c. 1150-1170

Jamb statues, west portal, Chatress Cathedral, France, c. 1145-1170

Knight and a Lady playing chess, ivory mirror case, France, c.1300-1325

Prudence, marble sculpture, pulpit of Pisa Cathedral, Giovanni Pisano, Italy, 1302-1310

Allegory of Good Government, fresco in the Palazzo Pubblico, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Siena, 1338-1339

Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry), illuminated manuscript by the Limbourg brothers, made in France by Dutch artists, c. 1410

Vitruvian Man, pen and ink, Da Vinci, 1487

Sacrifice of Isaac, gilt bronze relief for the doors of the Babtistery of Florence, Ghiberti, 1401-1402

dome of Florence Cathedral, Brunelleschi, dome 1420-1436, lantern c.1446

Birth of Venus, tempera on canvas, Boticelli, c. 1486, Florence

Merode Altarpiece, oil on panel, Robert Campin, Flemish, c. 1426

Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami, oil on panel, Jan van Eyck, Flemish, c.1434

The Large Turf, watercolor, Albrecht Dürer, German, c. 1503

• Concentration on the written word. Calligraphy.
• Aniconic
• Koran text is written everywhere. Shows that Allah is everywhere.
• Repeating complex pattern. submission to rituals, used as meditation.

• borrowing from the Romans.
• everything was used for teaching
• church dominates
• god over individual

• Christian theme
• verticallity (god)
• pilgrimage
• courtly love

• rationality
• humanism
• complexity
• fascination with the classical world
• expanded roles of women
• Individualism

• Rationality
• humanism
• complexity
• fascination with the classical world
• expanded roles of women
• individualism

• Humanism
• complexity
• rationality
• materialism
• fascination with classical world
• expanded roles for women
• individualism

• Rationality
• humanism
• complexity
• fascination with thte classical world
• indiviualism
• expanded roles of women