Unit 21 Medieval Sculpture: Context



DOORS

01 Rome, Sta Sabina
wooden doors
EARLY CHRISTIAN

02 Sta Sabina detail
The Crucifixion

03 Augsburg Cathedral
cast bronze 
ROMANESQUE 

04 Augsburg detail

05
DOORWAYS:
A THREE-PORTAL FACADE

06 Saint-Gilles-du-Gard
ROMANESQUE

07 Saint-Gilles detail  
SCREEN FACADE
08 Poitiers, Notre-Dame-la-Grande
ROMANESQUE

09 Poitiers, Notre-Dame-la-Grande detail of carved voussoirs

10 Poitiers, Notre-Dame-la-Grande, detail of frieze 
TYMPANA and JAMBS

11-Vézelay: the central tympanum 
ROMANESQUE

12 Toulouse St-Sernin-tympanum
ROMANESQUE

14 Abbey of St-Denis
central tympanum
EARLY GOTHIC

15 Chartres Cathedral 
west facade, central tympanum
EARLY GOTHIC

16 Chartres Cathedral
north transept statue columns
GOTHIC: c. 1200

17 Chartres Cathedral 
north transept jamb
GOTHIC c. 1200

18 Beaulieu
porch reliefs
ROMANESQUE
CAPITALS
19 Chartres Cathedral 
west facade, historiated capitals
EARLY GOTHIC

21 Rome, Sta Sabina
EARLY CHRISTIAN

22-Ravenna, San Vitale
EARLY CHRISTIAN

23 Autun Cathedral 
historiated capital: hanging of Judas
ROMANESQUE

24 Auxerre Cathedral
sculpted corbels
GOTHIC

25 Auxerre-detail 
FREE-STANDING OBJECTS
26 Palermo: pulpit 

27-Winchester-Font
ROMANESQUE
INTERIOR SCULPTURE

28-Paris, Ste-Chapelle 
apostle figure
GOTHIC

29 Naumburg Cathedral-choir screen
GOTHIC

30 Naumburg-Herman&Reglindis, fonders of the cathedral 

31 Cleveland Museum
The Good Shepherd
EARLY CHRISTIAN

32 Venice, Tetrarchs 
EARLY CHRISTIAN
FURNISHINGS

33 Ravenna, San Vitale, Throne of Maximian
EARLY CHRISTIAN

34 detail of side panel 

35 Milan-plaque from a book cover 
FREE-STANDING
SCULPTURE

36 Hunnestad Runestone
EARLY MEDIEVAL

37 St Kevin's Cross
ROMANESQUE
DEVOTIONAL OBJECTS

38 Cologne Cathedral
Gero Cross
OTTONIAN

39 Essen, Virgin and Child
OTTONIAN

40 New York, Metropolitan Museum The Cloisters
Bury Cross (from Bury St Edmunds)
ROMANESQUE

41 London, Victoria and Albert Museum,Virgin and Child
BYZANTINE

42 London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Virgin and Child
ANGLO-SAXON

43 Prague Cathedral  
St Wenceslas 
GOTHIC: 14c

44 Munich, Bayerisches Staatsmuseum
Christ and St John 
GOTHIC: 14c

45 Coburg Pieta 
GOTHIC: 14c

46 Ravenna-tomb of Theodore
EARLY CHRISTIAN 

47 Jouarre-tomb of Theochilde 
EARLY MEDIEVAL 
TOMBS

48 St-Denis, burial place of the French kings 

49-St-Denis, tomb 

50 Dijon Museum, tomb of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy 
c. 1400

51 Dijon, Chartreuse de Champmol
Claus Sluter: Well of Moses 
c. 1400


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