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Religious painting – Narrative about Catholicism – The central person could be one of the saints, or Jesus – Natural lines, lots of narrative to fit in one…
Class Notes -Harpy: bird, woman’s face – Direct eye line to his upper left. -Pattern and repetition throughout the piece. Particularly in the border around the painting, and…
Supporting image of marbel griffin penal. A Byzantine style penal made in10th–11th century in Constantinople. This Decorative Panel is 68.6 x 80 x 2.9 cm. It used for…
This 74.422×56.388cm picture is the supporting image of the yellow background St George and Dragon. Both of them drawn in 1460 by Paolo Uccello and described the same…
The picture shows another peace of the Hortus Deliciarium, the Wheel of Fortune.
The Hortus Deliciarum is a medieval manuscript originally written and illustrated by the abbess Herrad von Landsberg in the Hohenburg Abbey in Alsace. It was destroyed in 1870,…
This oil on canvas painting describes the story of St George save fort master’s daughter frome the Dragon. St Geoge who set on the horse used his spear…
This piece is a supporting image for “the bird (Christ) killing the snake (Satan),” it is also from the Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liebana; an…
The Apocalypse Tapestry is a huge medieval set of tapestries made in France from 1377-1382. It shows the story of the Apocalypse from the Book of Revelation by…
This supporting image for the Beast and Dragon section of the 14th Century Tapisserie de l’Apocalypse in Angers is from the late medieval blockbook, Apocalypsis Sancti Johannes. This…
This is a mural at the Chaldon Church, dating to the 1200’s. It is done a bit later than the Ladder of Virtues done in 1167, but depicts…
This piece is part of the Hortus Deliciarum, called ‘Ladder of Virtues’. The book compilation of 336 images is by Herrad of Landsberg, and she began work on…