Grade 9

2. Medieval period covers 1, 000 years of art in Europe, Middle east, and
North Africa which includes mosaic walls and domes and fresco paintings
adorning churches. Panel paintings were also introduced during this period,
and were seen in church monasteries such as the Monastery of St. Catherine
in Sinai.
Byzantine Art
= portrayed religious subjects that do not adhere to humans’ rational
earthly sense of space and proportion. Fresco paintings from the later
Byzantine period reveals much about such artistic techniques and styles.

3. A Roman fresco at the Villa Dei Misteri in Pompeii A mosaic of Empress Theodora(c.500-28 June
548), the empress of the Byzantine Empire

4. Small-scale artworks like ivory carvings were also very popular forms of Byzantine art,
particularly during the first Golden Age because they allowed greater portability. Ivory was also used
on book covers and small folding devotionals.

5. Romanesque Art
= refers to the art of Medieval Europe before the rise of the Gothic art in the 13th
century. It covers various forms of art such as paintings, sculptures and architecture.
Romanesque painting is characterized by a formality of style with no trace of the
naturalism of its Classical predecessors or its Gothic successors.
A Romanesque wall painting at the church of St.
Clemente de Taul in Catalonia, Spain

6. The tympanum shown above depicts the Last Judgement where Christ is
sitting in a mandorla, an almond-shaped panel or contour, surrounded by the four
Evangelists and the wise men of the Apocalypse.

7. Gothic Art
Gothic art was a style that developed in Northern France out of Romanesque
art and spread to Western Europe. It includes different art forms such as paintings,
illuminated manuscripts, portable sculptures and large churches.
Gothic painting was practiced in four primary media: frescoes, panel
paintings, manuscript illumination, and stained glass. Illuminated manuscripts
represent the most complete record of Gothic painting. The earliest full manuscripts
with French Gothic illustrations date to the middle of the 13th century. Pilgrimage
souvenirs like clay badges and stamped medals were also popular forms of Gothic
art.
Gothic art also features large churches and life-sized tomb effigies. Large
churches show rows of sculpted figures spread around them especially around doors.

8. Scaliger Tombs in Verona
Architecture was the most
important art during the Gothic
period, its principal structural
characteristic was heavy masonry
ceiling vaults over wide spans that
were supported by extremely thick
and heavy walls.
The rich architecture and
design of the Gothic period can also
be seen in the creatively artistic
stained glass windows and
thousands of sculptured figurines.
Stained glass refers to colored
glass used to form decorative or
pictorial designs, notably for church
windows, both by painting or by
setting contrasting pieces in a lead
framework like a mosaic

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