Gothic Sculpture
Northern France had not ignored sculpture in the Romanesque period: its workshops had produced capitals decorated with foliage or animals, but rarely with the human figure, and the great sculpted tympanum had remained unknown there. It was in this region that Gothic art came into being, and from its beginning sculpted works of very high [...]
Gothic art
To define Gothic art is a complex undertaking, so diverse is the geographical and chronological reality that it covers, from the mid 12th c. to the Renaissance. It was precisely at the Renaissance that the term appeared, to express the disdain felt in those times for forms considered as barbarous as the Goths to whom [...]
Romanesque Art
So called in the 19th c. by analogy with the Romance language (in French, both roman), Romanesque art lasted for about two centuries, from the year 1000 to the end of the 12th c., reaching its apogee around the turn of the 1100s. Its advent was rooted in favourable economic, social, demographic and political conditions, [...]
Hagia Sophia in Constantinople- short introduction
The first church on the site, of basilical form, was built near the Milion, that is, in the neighborhood of the Great Palace and Hippodrome, by Constantius II (not Constantine as often stated) and inaugurated in 360. It was known as the Great Church (Megale Ekklesia)—the name Hagia Sophia is first attested ca.430—and had the [...]
Coppo di Marcovaldo’s The ‘Madonna del Bordone’
Coppo di Marcovaldo (c. 1225 – c. 1276) was an Italian painter active n Tuscany. He is the best-known named Florentine artist of the generation preceding Cimabue. His one signed work, the Madonna del Bordone (1261), confirms, together with a few other paintings attributed to him, the growing importance of Florence as a centre for [...]
Bayeux Tapestry
The Bayeux Tapestry (French: Tapisserie de Bayeux) is embroidered strip of linen telling the story of the events starting in 1064 that led up to the Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. In common with other embroidered hangings of the early medieval period, this piece is conventionally referred to as [...]
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