

This unusual page color is due to the extremely corrosive process used to dye the vellum with iron gall ink. An Obscure Illuminated Manuscript : The Black Hours Black Hours Manuscript, created in Bruges, 1475-1480 CE, via the Morgan Library and MuseumĪmong the most curious of all illuminated manuscripts, the Black Hours strikes our contemporary eyes with its unique dark blueish shades. Last Judgment, Tympanum, Cathedral of St.6.Pilgrimage routes and the cult of the relic.Romanesque architecture, an introduction.Bronze doors, Saint Michael’s, Hildesheim (Germany).Mosaics, Santa Prassede (Praxedes), Rome.Depicting Judaism in a medieval Christian ivory.Matthew in the Coronation Gospels and Ebbo Gospels.Charlemagne (part 2 of 2): The Carolingian revival.Charlemagne (part 1 of 2): An introduction.Picturing salvation - Chora’s brilliant Byzantine mosaics and frescoes.Late Byzantine secular architecture and urban planning.Byzantine architecture and the Fourth Crusade.Plunder, War, and the Horses of San Marco.


Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta, Torcello.Cross-cultural artistic interaction in the Middle Byzantine period.A Byzantine vision of Paradise - The Harbaville Triptych.Book illumination in the Eastern Mediterranean.Byzantine frescoes at Saint Panteleimon, Nerezi.Mosaics and microcosm: the monasteries of Hosios Loukas, Nea Moni, and Daphni.Theotokos mosaic, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul.A work in progress: Middle Byzantine mosaics in Hagia Sophia.Middle Byzantine secular architecture and urban planning.Regional variations in Middle Byzantine architecture.Cross-cultural artistic interaction in the Early Byzantine period.The Byzantine Fieschi Morgan cross reliquary.Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George.The Emperor Triumphant (Barberini Ivory).Byzantine Mosaic of a Personification, Ktisis.Art and architecture of Saint Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai.Empress Theodora, rhetoric, and Byzantine primary sources.Sant’Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna (Italy).Byzantine architecture during Iconoclasm.Sergius and Bacchus, preserved as the mosque, Küçük Ayasofya Innovative architecture in the age of Justinian.Early Byzantine architecture after Constantine.Byzantine Iconoclasm and the Triumph of Orthodoxy.About the chronological periods of the Byzantine Empire.Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well from the Vienna Genesis.The Story of Jacob from the Vienna Genesis.The Good Shepherd in Early Christianity.Basilica of Constantine (Aula Palatina), Trier.Early Christian art and architecture after Constantine.An Introduction to the Bestiary, Book of Beasts in the Medieval World.The medieval origins of the modern footnote.Medieval books in leather (and other materials).Making books for profit in medieval times.Words, words, words: medieval handwriting.Parchment (the good, the bad, and the ugly).Written in the Stars: Astronomy and Astrology in Medieval Manuscripts.Visions of Paradise in a Global Middle Ages.Writing a history of Jewish architecture.The life of Christ in medieval and Renaissance art.The lives of Christ and the Virgin in Byzantine art.The Buddha’s long “journey” to Europe and Africa.Coming Out: Queer Erasure and Censorship from the Middle Ages to Modernity.Musical imagery in the Global Middle Ages.Travel, trade and exploration in the Middle Ages.A Global Middle Ages through the Pages of Decorated Books.A new pictorial language: the image in early medieval art.Elena FitzPatrick Sifford on casta paintings Reframing Art History, a new kind of textbook.Not your grandfather’s art history: a BIPOC Reader.With 503 contributors from 201 colleges, universities, museums, and researchĬenters, Smarthistory is the most-visited art history resource in the world. We believe that the brilliant histories of art belong to everyone, no matter their background. At Smarthistory, the Center for Public Art History, we believe art has the power to transform lives and to build understanding across cultures.
