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Barbarian Art

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April 04, 2013
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Barbarian Art

nichsara

April 04, 2013
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  1. Trends  in  “Barbarian”  Art  
    Reading  
    Stokstad,    428-­‐444  
     
    Range  
    500-­‐1000  CE  
    Anglo-­‐Saxon,  Frankish,  Visigoth,  
    Norse  
     
    Terms/Concepts  
    barbarian,    torque,  cloisonné,  
    niello,  garnet,  Merovingian,  
    animal  style,    
    Monument  List  
      15-­‐4,  Hinged  Clasp,  SuHon  
    Hoo,  England,  7th  century  CE.  
      Not  in  Book,  Gold  Belt  
    Buckle,  SuHon  Hoo,  Mound  
    1,  Anglo-­‐Saxon,  7th  century  
    CE.  
      15-­‐2,  Jewelry  of  Queen  
    Arnegunde,  excavated  from  
    her  tomb  at  St.  Denis,  Paris,  
    580-­‐590  CE.  
      15-­‐12,  Ship,    Oseberg  Ship  
    Burial,  Osberg,  Norway,  
    815-­‐820  CE.  

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  2. The  Fall  of  the  Western  Empire  
    395  CE  
    Theodosius  divides  the  Roman  Empire  
    into  Eastern  and  Western  regions.    
    *By  476,  all  of  Italy  was  under  the  control  of  the  Ostrogoths.  
    Byzan_ne  Empire  
    410  
    418  
    402  
    476  

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  3. Byzan_ne  Empire  
    “An  able  Goth  wants  to  be  like  a  Roman;  only  a  
    poor  Roman  would  want  to  be  like  a  Goth.”  
     –Theodoric,  King  of  the  Visigoths  

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  4. EUROPE AD 300-600
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    Saragossa
    Tarragona
    Cádiz
    Toledo
    Marseille
    Mediolanum
    Caralis
    Lyon
    Lisbon
    Besançon
    Leptis Magna
    Memphis
    Cyrene
    Sinope
    London
    York
    St Albans
    Arles
    Geneva
    Aquileia
    Ravenna
    Rome
    Naples
    Ephesus Antioch
    St Catherine’s
    Monastery
    Carthage
    Sabratha
    Nicopolis
    Athens
    Alexandria
    Philippi
    Thessalonica
    Trapezus
    Damascus
    Caesarea
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    1 The Disintegration of the Roman Empire
    important churches
    Huns
    Vandals, Alans, Sueves
    Visigoths
    Burgundians
    Ostrogoths
    Angles, Saxons, Jutes
    Lombards
    Franks
    Empire of Justinian, AD 565
    successor kingdoms:
    East Roman Empire
    Kingdom of the Vandals
    Kingdom of the Visigoths
    Burgundian Kingdom
    Kingdom of the Ostrogoths
    Sasanian Empire
    Kingdom of the Sueves
    Frankish Kingdom
    1 THREATENED BY BARBARIANS through the fourth
    century and especially in the fifth century, the
    western empire collapsed, though many elements
    of its culture survived. The eastern empire was
    eventually able to deflect its enemies. Mainly of
    Germanic origin, the barbarians were forced
    westwards by pressure from the nomads of
    central Asia.
    The  Conquest  of  the  West  
    Byzan_ne  Empire  
    “An  able  Goth  wants  to  be  like  a  Roman;  only  a  
    poor  Roman  would  want  to  be  like  a  Goth.”  
     –Theodoric,  King  of  the  Visigoths  

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  7. Torque  

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  9. Sutton Hoo
    Discovered in 1938/39.

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  16. “They  laid  their  dear  lord,  the  
    giver  of  rings,  deep  within  the  
    ship  by  the  mast  in  majesty;  
    many  treasures  and  adornments  
    from  far  and  wide  were  gathered  
    there.    I  have  never  heard  of  a  
    ship  equipped  more  handsomely  
    with  weapons  and  war-­‐gear,  
    swords  and  corselets;  on  his  
    breast  lay  countless  treasures  
    that  were  to  travel  far  with  him  
    into  the  waves’  domain.”  

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  21. Detail:  Snakes  intertwining  and  bi_ng  
    “They  came  to  another  island  and  a  
    wall  of  stone  around  it.  And  when  
    they  came  near,  a  great  beast  leaped  
    up  and  went  racing  about  the  island,  
    and  it  seemed  to  Maelduin  to  be  
    going  quicker  than  the  wind.    And  it  
    went  then  to  the  high  part  of  the  
    island,  and  it  did  the  straightening-­‐of-­‐
    the-­‐body  feat,  that  is,  its  head  below,  
    its  feet  above…it  turned  in  its  skin,  
    the  flesh  and  the  bones  going  around  
    the  skin  outside  without  moving.    And  
    at  another  _me  the  skin  outside  
    would  turn  like  a  mill,  and  the  flesh  
    and  the  bones  not  s_rring.”  

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  27. Desborough
    known for its etched mirrors

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  29. Paris

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  34. Tierra de Barros

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  36. Oseberg

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  42. 15-­‐12,  Ship,    Oseberg  Ship  Burial,  Osberg,  
    Norway,  815-­‐820  CE.  

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  45. Norse   Anglo-­‐Saxon  

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  46. Anglo-­‐Saxon  
    Norse  

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  47. DANES

    (c. 960)

    NORSE

    (c. 970-1025)

    Areas Christianized, 900-1100

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  48. Cri_cal  Thinking  Ques_ons  
    1.  How  did  the  Romans  represent  the  so-­‐called  
    “barbarians”?    How  did  these  people  represent  
    themselves?  
    2.  How  did  these  people  interact  with  the  classical  
    world?    How  did  they  interact  with  each  other?  
    3.  How  did  the  “barbarians”  represent  the  natural  
    world?  
    4.  How  was  material  significant  in  the  art  of  this  
    northern  tradi_on?  

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