HA&A 0240 Medieval Artistic Patronage
Course Requirements

Office Hours

Tues. 5.30-6 and by appointment, call 8-2420. email: mastones@hotmail.com (use with caution: it is often full)

Limited access website for the course: http://vrcoll.fa.pitt.edu/stones-haa0240/index.html

Goals

Learn about art and architecture in Europe from the 6th to 15th centuries and about some of the people who commissioned and made it.  Be able to answer questions such as :
--What did contemporaries think about the works of art commissioned by XXX (Justinian, Charlemagne, etc.) ?  Discuss with examples.
--What kinds of works did the lay rulers you have studied commission, and how did their choices differ from the works commissioned by ecclesiastical patrons ?  Compare and contrast two patrons and their works.
--What do the works tell you about their patrons ?
--Does the patronage of women differ from that of men ?  Pick some examples to compare and discuss.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of a European language in addition to English is an advantage (see bibliography) but not essential.

Course requirements

1 and 2) Midterm and Final slide tests and short written questions, for which practice is given in class. 

Guidelines for the Midterm: the Midterm will consist of a set of pairs of images to compare and contrast.  Things to consider, depending on whether you are comparing parts of buildings or parts of other kinds of illustrative programs:

a) the medium (are they ground plans of buildings ? interior views ? exteriors ? parts of a decorative program ? a mosaic ? an illuminated page ? a piece of sculpture ? a mixture (more than one medium) ?

b) what features do the two objects share in common (such as formal component parts, subjects, styles --anything you can see by looking)

c) what features are different ?  (same as above, anything you can see by looking)

d) talk about the subject matter (is one religious, the other secular ? one earlier or later than the other ? )

e) what is the period and area they come from (which period do they belong to, whose patronage are they due to ?)

Say as much as you can, and don't be afraid to state the obvious !



3) a written paper (see list of topics below).

Grade is based on all three assignments and on participation in class.

Attendance is mandatory. There is no opportunity to make up missed classes or missed exams.

Course materials

lectures: Prof. Stones will lecture for the scheduled class time (6-8.30) using images projected directly from the course web site, which she will develope further during the semester so that all slides used in class will be available.

Written Paper

The patronage of one of these people or places:
Northumbria in the 7th c.
Winchester in the 10th c.
Canterbury in the 11-12th c.
Jean de Berry
Philip of Burgundy
Charles V of France
Charles IV of Bohemia
Richard II of England
The Visconti of Milan
Substitute topics must be approved by Prof. Stones by Feb. 27. A one-page outline  and bibliography is due March 20. Final version due April 10.  Papers may be submitted in electronic form and must be illustrated.

Suggested Readings and an Approach to the topic:


Northumbria

Readings:

BR746 Bede. Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
B5
1969 (H)

CT Lives of Cuthbert
C9882C69 (H)

  Webb, G.,  Architecture in Britain in the Middle Ages, chapter 1.

NA963 H.M. Taylor and Joan Taylor, Anglo-Saxon Architecture, Cambridge. 1965 (ask
T24  Art Librarian).  Concentrate on the building actually in Norhtumbria -
   Hexham, Jarrow, Monkwearmouth, Lindisfarne.  Durham does not
   become important until later - omit.

The Making of England : Anglo-Saxon art and culture, AD 600-
900 / edited by Leslie Webster and Janet Backhouse ; with
contributions by Marion Archibald, Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1991.
FRICK FINE ARTS        DA152.2 M34l1991

Cormac Bourke, ed.  From the Isles of the North: Early Medieval Art in Ireland and Britain, Belfast: HMSO, 1995
FFA N6784 I58 1994
 

iN6763 R.L.S. Bruce-Milford, The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial, London, 1975.
B86B8
1975

NB463 Stone, L.  Sculpture in Britain in the Middle Ages, chapter 1.
S8

  Rickert, M., Painting in Britain in the Middle Ages, chapter 1.

iND2940 Alexander, J.J.G.  A Survey of Illuminated MSS in the British Isles, vol. I. 650 -
A37  900.

oND3359 Facsimile of the Lindisfarne Gospels
L74K3  Ed. Bruce-Mitford ed al.  Look at the plates; don't try to read all the text.


  Concentrate on the manuscripts actually made in Northumbria:  Lindisfarne
   Gospels, Codex Amiatinus, Book of Durrow (iND3359 D96).

Method:

i)    Find out why Northumbria is important for art.
       Find out in what period (concentrate on late 7th-early 8th centuries), and find out why
  it is the crutial period.
       Consider the roles of Cuthbert and Bede, "Irish" type Christianity and the Synod of
  Whitby.

ii)   What did they produce there?
        Consider the buildings, painting and MSS, metalwork, and sculpture.

iii)   Make sure you consider the evidence for the production of the various items in Northumbria; much has been attributed by stylistic analogy only - beware of that problem.

Use a similar approach if you pick another topic


Winchester, 10-11c
Dodwell, C.R. Anglo-Saxon art : a new perspective, Manchester : Manchester University Press, c1982.
FRICK FINE ARTS        N6763 .D62 1982b (FA)
 
Wilson, David M.  Anglo-Saxon art : from the seventh century to the   Norman conquest, Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, c1984.
FRICK FINE ARTS        N6763 .W55 1984

Tenth-century studies : essays in commemoration of the millennium of the Council of Winchester and Regularis concordia / edited with an introd. by David Parsons.
London : Phillimore, 1975.
HILLMAN                BX2592 .T46

The Golden age of Anglo-Saxon art, 966-1066 / edited by Janet Backhouse, D.H. Turner, Leslie Webster ; with contributions by Marion Archibald, Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1984
FRICK FINE ARTS        N6763 .G65 1984

Temple, Elizbieta.  Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, 900-1066, London : Harvey Miller, c1976.
FRICK FINE ARTS        i ND3128 .T28 (FA)

Wormald, Francis.  The Benedictional of St. Ethelwold; with an introduction and
notes, New York, T. Yoseloff [1960, c1959]
FRICK FINE ARTS        ND3362.5 W92

Deshman, Robert.  The Benedictional of Aethelwold, Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1995
FRICK FINE ARTS        ND3362.5 D47 1995

Winchester in the early Middle Ages : an edition and discussion of the Winton Domesday / Frank Barlow ... [and others] ; with contributions by T. J. Brown ... [and others] ; edited by Martin Biddle, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1976
HILLMAN                DA690.W67 W5 no.1

Biddle, Martin.  The study of Winchester : archaeology and history in a British town, Oxford : Printed at the University Press, c1984.
HILLMAN                DA690.W67 B53 1984
 
 

Canterbury  Book s marked * are on reserve in FFA for this course
*A history of Canterbury Catherdral / edited by Patrick Collinson, Nigel Ramsay, and Margaret Sparks.   Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
FRI CK FINE ARTS   BX5195 C3H57 1995

*Woodman, Francis.  The architectural history of Canterbury Cathedral, London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981.
FRICK FINE ARTS        NA971.C22 W88 (FA

*A history of Canterbury Catherdral / edited by Patrick Collinson, Nigel Ramsay, and Margaret Sparks, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
FRICK FINE ARTS        BX5195 C3H57 1995

*Keates, Jonathan & Angelo Hornak. .Canterbury Cathedral, London : Scala Books / P. Wilson ; distributed by Lippincott & Crowell, 1980.
FRICK FINE ARTS        NA971.C22 K4 (FA)

Barlow, Frank.  Thomas Becket, London : Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, c1986.
HILLMAN                DA209 T4B27 1986b

Kidson, Peter.  'Gervase, Becket, and William of Sens, Speculum 68, 1993, 969-991.

Hearn, Millard F.  'Canterbury Cathedral and the Cult of Becket,' Art Bulletin 76, 11994, 9-52.

*Kahn, Deborah.  Canterbury Cathedral and its Romanesque sculpture, London :  H. Miller, c1991.
FRICK FINE ARTS        NB471 C36K34 1991b

Smith, R.A.L.  Canterbury cathedral priory, a study in monastic administration, Cambridge [Eng.] The University press, 1969 [1943]
HILLMAN                BX2596.C3 S55 1969

*Dodwell, C. R.  The Canterbury school of illumination, 1066-1200, Cambridge [Eng.] University Press, 1954.
FRICK FINE ARTS        i ND3128 D64

Butler, John R.  The quest for Becket's bones : the mystery of the relics of St. Thomas Becket of Canterbury, New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 1995.
HILLMAN                DA209 T4B88 1995
 
 

Richard II  * = on reserve in FFA for this course

  M. Rickert, Painting in Britain in the Middle Ages, pp. 146-179.

ND3375 M. Rickert, The Reconstructed Carmelite Missal.
C37R5

  F. Wormald, in Journal of Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. xxii, 1954,
   pp. 191-203 (article on the Wilton Diptych).

  J. Evans, Oxford History of English Art, 1306-1457, pp. 96-112.

  L. Stone, Sculpture in Britain in the Middle Ages, pp. 192-4.

*Making & meaning, the Wilton diptych / Dillian Gordon ; with an essay by Caroline M. Barron ; and contributions by Ashok Roy and Martin Wyld, London : National Gallery, c1993.
FRICK FINE ARTS        ND465 G67 1993
 

General books for the French patrons:

N6843 J. Evans, Art in Medieval France (look up the patron you have selected
E92  in the index).

ND545 G. Ring, A Century of French Painting ( only bits of this are relevant).
R58

iND3147 J. Porcher, French Miniatures from Illuminated MSS  (""""").
P83

NB1843 E. Erlande-Brandenbourg Le Roi est mort, Geneva/Paris, 1975.
E69
 

Charles V
ND3147 Avril, F.  Manuscript Painting at the Court of France, the 14th c., New York
A96  1978.

N6845 C.R. Sherman, The Portraits of Charles V of France, N.Y. 1969.
S32

Sherman, Claire Richter.  Imaging Aristotle : verbal and visual representation in
fourteenth-century France, Berkeley : University of California Press, c1995.
HILLMAN                PC2875 S53 1995

Hedeman, Anne Dawson.  The royal image : illustrations of the Grandes chroniques de France, 1274-1422, Berkeley : University of California Press, c1991.
FRICK FINE ARTS        ND3399 G67H44 1991

The coronation book of Charles V. of France (Cottonian ms. Tiberius B. VIII.) Edited by E.S. Dewick ... with collotypes of all the miniatures in the ms. and reproductions of seven of them in colours and gold by W. Griggs, London, Harrison and sons, printers, 1899.
HILLMAN                DC33.15 D52

  P. Pradel, "Les tombeaux de Charles V," Bulletin Monumental, cix, 1951, 273.
 

Jean de Berry:

M. Meiss, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry.

iND3147 vol.i, The Patronage of the Duke (includes bits on arch. sc., etc.)
M51

iND3147 vol.ii, The Boucicaut Master (since the works concerned are less directly con-
M51b  nected with J. de B., omit this vol.).

iND3147 vol.iii, The Limburg Brothers.
M51c

Facsimiles of illuminated books:

ND3363 The Belles Heures of Jean de Berry.
B53N5m

ND3363 The Très Riches Heures of Jean de Berry.
B53T7

oND3363 The Grandes Heures of Jean de Berry.
B5397
 
 

Giangaleazzo Visconti

ND3363 Meiss, M., and Kirsch, E.,  The Visconti Hours.
V82M5

  Frankl, P.  Gothic Architecture.

NA1121 Beldrami, L., Il castello di Milano, Milano, 1894.
M63B4c

N6919 Arte lombarda dai Visconti agli Storza, Milan, 1958.
L84A7

ND619 Toesca, P.,  La pittura e la miniatura nella Lombardia, Milan, 1912.
L84T6

N7660 Giovannino de Grassi, Tacuino di disegni.
G76
 

Philip of Burgundy:
Vaughan, Richard.  Philip the Bold, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1962.
HILLMAN                DC611.B78 V36

Richard Vaughan. Valois Burgundy, Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, 1975.
HILLMAN                DC611.B78 V357 1975
 

NB553 H. David, Claus Sluter ( in French).
S634D2

ND549 G. Troescher, Burgundische Malerei (in German) Berlin, 1966
B95T8  Sculpture and panel painting are the most important aspects here.

  Bulletin Monumental 1933, pp.419-467.

David, Henri.   Claus Sluter, Paris : P. Tisné, 1951.
FRICK FINE ARTS        NB553 S6D38 1951

Aenne Liebreich, Claus Sluter, Bruxelles, Dietrich & cie, 1936.
FRICK FINE ARTS        NB553.S634 L7
 

H. David and A. Liebreich, BM 1934 pp. 409-433, Claus Sluter, tombier ducal

  id., BM 1935 pp. 329-52, Le portail de l'église de Champmol.  Chronologie de la  construction.

  K.Morand, Claus Sluter : artist at the court of Burgundy, London : Harvey Miller, c1991.
FRICK FINE ARTS        NB653 S57M67 1991b

Charles IV of Bohemia  NB Many of the books are in German

Friedl, Antonin.  Master Theodoricus: on his style of Painting, Prague 1956
FFA ND538.D48 F9

Antonín Matějček & Jaroslav Pešina, Czech Gothic Painting 1350-1450, Prague, 1950
FFA ND528 .M42c

Rosario, Iva.  Art and Propaganda: Charles IV of Bohemia (1346-1378), Woodbridge, 2000
FFA i DB2103 .R67 2000

Zdeněk Hojda and Jiří Pesěk, The Palaces of Prague, New York, 1994
i NA7720 H65 1994

Nussbaum, Norbert.  German Gothic Church Architecture, New Haven 2000
i NA5563 .N8813 2000