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    The document summarizes artistic developments during the Medieval period in Europe. Byzantine art continued Greco-Roman styles with Christian subjects. Romanesque art had influences from Byzantine and southern French styles, featuring heavy outlines and flat colors. Gothic art saw developments in painting illuminated manuscripts, stained glass windows to instruct Christians, and more realistic sculptures projecting outward from walls. Architecturally, Byzantine buildings had mosaic decorations and clerestories, while Romanesque featured solid masonry and rounded arches. Gothic architecture introduced pointed arches and stone vaulting allowing for taller ceilings.

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    The document summarizes artistic developments during the Medieval period in Europe. Byzantine art continued Greco-Roman styles with Christian subjects. Romanesque art had influences from Byzantine and southern French styles, featuring heavy outlines and flat colors. Gothic art saw developments in painting illuminated manuscripts, stained glass windows to instruct Christians, and more realistic sculptures projecting outward from walls. Architecturally, Byzantine buildings had mosaic decorations and clerestories, while Romanesque featured solid masonry and rounded arches. Gothic architecture introduced pointed arches and stone vaulting allowing for taller ceilings.

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    The document summarizes artistic developments during the Medieval period in Europe. Byzantine art continued Greco-Roman styles with Christian subjects. Romanesque art had influences from Byzantine and southern French styles, featuring heavy outlines and flat colors. Gothic art saw developments in painting illuminated manuscripts, stained glass windows to instruct Christians, and more realistic sculptures projecting outward from walls. Architecturally, Byzantine buildings had mosaic decorations and clerestories, while Romanesque featured solid masonry and rounded arches. Gothic architecture introduced pointed arches and stone vaulting allowing for taller ceilings.

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    MEDIEVAL PERIOD

    BYZANTINE
    ROMANESQUE
    GOTHIC
    Paintings from the
    Medieval Era
    Byzantine Painting
    The lively styles of
    paintings which had been
    invented in Greek and
    Rome lived on in
    Byzantium but this time
    for Christian subjects.

    The court of Empress Theodora,


    mosaic
    6th century AD San Vitale, Ravena
    The court of Empress
    Theodora, mosaic
    6th century AD San Vitale,
    Ravena

    Theodora was an Asian


    Queen with dark eyes
    and hair with fierce
    expression;
    Romanesque Painting
    It has a remarkable variety of artistic traditions
    such as bands and heavy outlining. modeling and
    treatment of faces and draperies that follow
    Byzantine convention while the refreshingly
    decorative feeling comes from southern French
    styles.
    It also shows traces of Mozarabic influence
    (Arabize influence) through elongated oval faces,
    large staring eyes and long noses, figures against
    flat colored
    Christ in Majesty, painting from the Church of Saint
    Clemente, Tahull, Lerida Spain, c. 1123 Musue
    Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
    Paintings from the
    Gothic Era
    Paintings have been
    confined in the
    illumination of manuscript
    pages and the painting of
    frescoes on the walls of
    churches in cosmopolitan
    style, elegant, mannered
    and sophisticated.

    Lady and the Unicorn tapestry,


    1506- 1513
    Stained glass windows were created to
    transform the vast stone interiors with warm
    and glowing color and at the same time to
    instruct Christians in their faith.

    Rose window from the North transcept, about 1230


    Sculpture from the
    Medieval Era
    ByzantineSculptures

    The dominant themes in Byzantine sculptures


    are religious, everyday life scenes, and motifs
    from nature.
    Animals were used as symbols (dove, deer,
    peafowl) while some had acrostic signs (form
    of writing in which taking the first letter;
    syllable or word of different lines and putting
    them together it can be read a message) that
    contained a great theological significance.

    The Barberini Diptych


    Last Judgement

    Romanesque Sculptures
    Some of the famous
    sculptural pieces are
    reliquaries, altar frontals,
    crucifixes, and devotional
    images. Small individual
    works of art were generally
    made of costly materials for
    royal and aristocratic
    patrons. These lightweight
    devotional images were
    usually carried in the
    processions both inside and
    outside the churches
    Gothic Sculptures
    Gothic sculptureshave a
    greater freedom of style.
    They no longer lay closely
    against the wall, but
    begun to project
    outward.Figures were
    given their own particular
    attitudes instead of being
    set into particular
    patterns and are more
    lively and realistic. Last Judgement
    Architecture from
    the Medieval Era
    Byzantine Architecture
    It has a lot in common with
    the early Christian
    architecture. Mosaic
    decoration was perfected by
    the Byzantines, as was the
    use of clerestory to bring
    light in from high windows.

    Hagia Sophia. Istanbul, 537 BC


    The groin-vaulted crypt of Worcester Cathedral

    Romanesque Architecture

    Romanesqeu architecture
    displayed solid masonry
    walls, rounded arches and
    masonry vaults. It is the
    period of great building
    activities in Europe,
    castles, churches,
    monasteries arose
    everywhere.
    Gothic Architecture

    This design included two new devices:


    POINTED ARCH which enabled builders to
    construct much higher ceiling vaults
    STONE VAULTING borne on a network of stone
    ribs supported by piers and clustered pillars.

    Cathedral of Chartres,also known as the Notre dame


    Cathedral

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