Barbarian Art

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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  
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   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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   Genova
   Pisae
   Narbonne
   Bordeaux
   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
   Bethlehem
   Jerusalem
   Mosul
   Constantinople
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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
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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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