This illustrated book from Ottonian Europe shows how local styles were used and encouraged throughout the empire.
What is the Hitda Gospels?
100
A canopy suspended over a sacred space, also called a ciborium.
What is a baldachin?
100
This word means "In the Roman manner".
What is Romanesque?
100
These types of people were sent on journeys to the holy land.
What are pilgrims?
200
Any Romanesque image of Mary seated on a throne holding the Christ Child on her lap.
What is The Throne of Wisdom?
200
Safeguards the southeastern coast of England from invasion where the Romans had built a lighthouse on the point where the English channel separating England and France narrows.
What is Dover Castle?
200
This church plan, once very popular in the Early Christian period, became the main plan for Middle Ages churches, specifically Carolingian churches.
What is the basilican plan?
200
The creation of lively narrative scenes within the geometric confines of capitals. Also an important Romanesque innovation in architectural sculpture.
What is historiated capitals?
200
This cylindrical tower in Pisa, Italy made use of the Classical theme of the colonnade by using it as a decorative arcade.
What is the Tower of Pisa?/What is the campanile of the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption?
300
This Gospel book, made in a German monastery near Reichenau shows a painting style inspired by Byzantine art in the use of sharply outlined drawing and lavish fields of gold.
What is the Gospels of Otto III?
300
Earliest known illustrated history book, where the artist depicts the dreams with energetic directness including angry farmers and armed knights.
What is the Worcester Chronicle?
300
This plan showed the typical design of medieval monasteries. The layout shown in the plan is still used in Benedictine monasteries.
What is the Saint Gall Plan?
300
This was picked up as evidence of a pilgrimage to St. James at Santiago de Compostela.
What is a shell?
300
This piece is one of the earliest examples of Norman design and narrates Duke William of Normandy's conquest of England in 1066.
What is the Bayeux Embroidery?
400
This monk defended visual arts within the monastic traditions and said “God delights in embellishments.”
Who is Theophilus?
400
The most important imagery on a Romanesque portal appears on this.
What is the tympanum?
400
Impressive example of Norman Romanesque, the nave retains in Norman character, the huge circular window lighting the choir is a later Gothic addition
What is the Durham Cathedral?
400
This is another name for an enclosed courtyard that is in the center of the main buildings in a monastery.
What is a cloister?
400
The oldest-known bronze tomb effingy. In the cathedral of Merseburg, nearly life sized.
What is the King Rudolf of Swabia?
500
In this famous Carolingian manuscript, artists interpreted the words of individual psalms as literal to create illustrations for each psalm.
What is the Utrecht Psalter?
500
This creation during the Romanesque period required the material and people of an entire town to create as well revived the art of stone sculpture.
What is Architectural Sculpture?
500
Richly decorated containers that contained body parts or objects associated with saints or the holy family were located in each church.
What are reliquaries?
500
This piece of architecture has the characteristic feature of pointed barrel vaults over the nave and pointed aches in the nave arcade and side-aisle bays.
What is the Abbey of Fontenay?
500
This type of architecture embodies the ideals of the order-simplicity, austerity, and purity.