Early Medieval Art 375-1066 A.D.

Early Medieval Tribes

• Germanic Franks

• Visigoths

• Ostrogoths

• Saxons

• Norse

• Celts

Purse Cover from Sutton Hoo Ship burial, Suffolk England, ca 625

Animal-head post from Viking ship burial, Oseburg, Norway, ca 825

Cross Carpet page from

Lindisfarne Gospel, c. 700

Chi-Rho page from Book of Kells, 800 A.D.

High Cross of Muiredach, Ireland, 923

St. Matthew, from the Gospel Book of Charlemagne, ca 800-810

St. Mark, from Gospel Book of Archbishop Ebbo of Reims, ca 816-835

Palace Chapel of Charlemagne,

Aachen, Germany, 792-

805

Model of Charlemagne’s Palace

St. Michael’s, Hildesheim, Germany, 1001-1031

Section plan of St. Michael’s, Hildesheim, Germany

Doors with relief panels (Genesis, left door; life of Christ,

right door), commissioned by

Bishop Bernward for Saint Michael’s,

Hildesheim, Germany, 1015. Bronze, 16’ 6”

high.

Column with reliefs illustrating the life of Christ, commissioned by Bishop Bernward for Saint Michael’s,

Hildesheim, Germany, ca. 1015–1022. Bronze, 12’ 6”

tall

Crucifix commissioned by Archbishop

Gero for Cologne

Cathedral, Germany, ca. 970. Painted

wood, height of figure 6’ 2”.

Otto III Enthroned Receiving Homage of four parts of the

Empire, from Gospel Book of Otto III,

997-1000