![]() Other notable works include large-scale wooden figural sculptures from Flanders, France, and Spain, carvings in marble, limestone, and alabaster, illuminated manuscripts, as well as one of the museum’s earliest cutout initials, a rare surviving example of 12th-century painting. ![]() Tino di Camaino’s Three Princesses relief, one of the Gallery’s masterpieces of medieval sculpture, incorporates Cosmatesque glass inlay in its background and is probably from a Neapolitan royal tomb of the early 14th century. These have only recently been recognized for their authorship and significance. Byzantine-period highlights include two icons from the 15th and 16th centuries-one a disassembled, five-panel folding tabernacle-that are part of the famed Jarves Collection that came to Yale in 1868. These artworks range in date from the end of the first millennium to the late 16th century. The works of the medieval period remain a rich area of study for scholars interested in diverse interdisciplinary topics such as economic history, political and religious studies and the status of women in medieval society.Among the Gallery’s holdings of European art is a selection of important medieval and Byzantine paintings, sculpture, and functional objects in all media. The sophisticated visual culture encompassed numerous media-architecture, sculpture, painting, textiles, shrines and ivories. Early Medieval Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Additional prominent works of this period include Romanesque architecture, such as the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela in Spain, and the great Gothic cathedrals at Amiens, Reims and Notre-Dame in Paris with their façade sculpture, stained glass, altarpieces, and treasuries of enamels, reliquaries and embroidered vestments. Home/Language/English/ Early Medieval Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. ![]() It also includes ivories, manuscripts and building projects of the Carolingian and Ottonian dynasties that produced such monuments as Charlemagne’s Palatine chapel at Aachen. This fascinating artistic period includes painted decorations from the catacombs in Rome, grand Byzantine monuments such as the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, famed mosaics in Ravenna, illuminated manuscripts and metalwork of the Insular art of Ireland and Britain such as the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Book of Kells. During the medieval period, the various secular arts were unified by the Christian church and the sacred arts associated with it. The era encompasses many artistic styles and periods, including early Christian and Byzantine, Anglo-Saxon and Viking, Insular, Carolingian, Ottonian, Romanesque, and Gothic. The thousand plus years between the division of the Roman Empire into Eastern and Western empires around the 4th century AD and the beginnings of the Renaissance in Europe are known as the medieval period. 500 photo credit: Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY Ravenna, S Apollinare Nuovo, mosaic showing the Betrayal of Christ, c. Public Art, Land Art, and Environmental Art Installation Art, Mixed-Media, and Assemblage ![]() Medieval Art from Private Collections: A Special Exhibition at The Cloisters, Octothrough January 5, 1969. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936. Collecting, Patronage, and Display of Art Gil de Siloe and His School: A Study of Late Gothic Sculpture in Burgos. ![]()
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