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Medieval
Refers to the time from when Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) became the capital of the Roman Empire during the reign of Constantine the Great in 330 and ends with the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottomans in 1453. In some places, later.
Basics to get you started
Early Christianity, an introduction
Early Christian art and architecture after Constantine
Classicism and the Early Middle Ages
Iconoclastic controversies
Middle Byzantine church architecture
Regional variations in Middle Byzantine architecture
Middle Byzantine secular architecture and urban planning
Illuminated Greek Gospel-books
Illuminating the Psalms in Byzantium
Book illumination in the Eastern Mediterranean
Middle Byzantine secular art
The visual culture of Norman Sicily
Cross-cultural artistic interaction in the Middle Byzantine period
The origins of Byzantine architecture
Early Byzantine architecture after Constantine
Innovative architecture in the age of Justinian
Byzantine architecture during Iconoclasm
Byzantine Iconoclasm and the Triumph of Orthodoxy
Cross-cultural artistic interaction in the Early Byzantine period
Byzantine architecture and the Fourth Crusade
Late Byzantine church architecture
Late Byzantine secular architecture and urban planning
The vita icon in the medieval era
The Alchemy of Color and Chemical Change in Medieval Manuscripts
A Global Middle Ages through the Pages of Decorated Books
A new pictorial language: the image in early medieval art
The bestiary (book of beasts) in the medieval world, an introduction
Architecture and liturgy
Byzantine art, an introduction
Byzantine Egypt and the Coptic period, an introduction
Byzantium, Kyivan Rus’, and their contested legacies
Cecily Brown on medieval sculptures of the Madonna and Child
Chivalry in the Middle Ages
Clasps: hugging a medieval book
Coming Out: Queer Erasure and Censorship from the Middle Ages to Modernity
Decoding Anglo-Saxon art
Decorating the book
A brief history of the representation of the body in Western painting
A brief history of the representation of the body in Western sculpture
Written in the Stars: Astronomy and Astrology in Medieval Manuscripts
Who’s who? How to recognize saints…
Wearable art in Byzantium
Visions of Paradise in a Global Middle Ages
Travel, trade and exploration in the Middle Ages
The work of the scribe
The medieval origins of the modern footnote
The medieval calendar
The Medieval and Renaissance Altarpiece
The lives of Christ and the Virgin in Byzantine art
The life of Christ in medieval and Renaissance art
The Buddha’s long “journey” to Europe and Africa
The Black Death
The Bestiary
The Art of Conquest in England and Normandy
Spanish Gothic cathedrals, an introduction
Skins and scraps
Florence in the Late Gothic period, an introduction
Illustrating a 15th-century Italian altarpiece
Romanesque art, an introduction
Greek painters in renaissance Venice
Jewish history to the middle ages
How was crusading justified?
Carolingian art, an introduction
Medieval Nubian Kingdoms, an introduction
Musical imagery in the Global Middle Ages
Images of African Kingship, Real and Imagined
The role of the workshop in late medieval and early modern northern Europe
Gothic architecture explained
Gothic architecture, an introduction
What were the crusades?
Ancient and Byzantine mosaic materials
Illumination of Jewish biblical texts
Medieval synagogues in Toledo, Spain
Medieval churches: sources and forms
Medieval supermodels
The English castle: dominating the landscape
Medieval manuscripts, an introduction
Listening to the medieval book
Making books for profit in medieval times
Medieval books in leather (and other materials)
Medieval notepads
What made art valuable, in the Middle Ages and Renaissance vs. now
Making Manuscripts: The Page
Manuscripts: major works of art
Medieval goldsmiths
Mapping the world
Art Appreciation: Religion—comparisons and connections
Christian Ethiopian art
A look at modern veneration
Remaking a fourteenth-century triptych
Manuscript production in the abbeys of Normandy
Romanesque architecture, an introduction
Ottonian art, an introduction
Saving Venice
Venetian glass, an introduction
Pilgrimage souvenirs
Arts of the Islamic world: The medieval period
Dante’s Divine Comedy in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance art
The Miracle of the Black Leg
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Robert de Luzarches, Thomas de Cormont, and Renaud de Cormont, Amiens Cathedral, Amiens, France, begun 1220
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