An introduction to iconographic analysis

An introduction to iconography and iconographic analysis

By Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank

Always wanted to know how art historians decide the meanings of symbols and identify subject area matter? Learn more than with this cursory introduction to the iconographic arroyo.

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Who's who? How to recognize saints...

Who's who? How to recognize saints…

Christianity, an introduction

Christianity, an introduction

Architecture and liturgy in early Christian Europe

Architecture and liturgy

Introduction to the Middle Ages

Introduction to the Middle Ages

Past Dr. Nancy Ross

The nighttime ages? Then much of what the average person knows, or thinks they know, well-nigh the Middle Ages comes from film and boob tube. When I polled a grouping of well-educated friends on Facebook, they told me that the give-and-take "medieval" called to mind Monty Python and the Holy...

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A new pictorial language: the image in Early Medieval art

A new pictorial language: the image in Early Medieval art

By Dr. Nancy Ross

Can artists exist Christians? Are images lies? The employ of art has been debated throughout the history of Christianity.

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Medieval manuscripts, an introduction

Medieval manuscripts, an introduction

By Dr. Nancy Ross

What survives More than medieval books survive from the Eye Ages than any other creative medium. Scholars refer to the hand-fabricated books of the Middle Ages every bit manuscripts. Books that contain creative ornament are called illuminated manuscripts. Manuscripts that survive...

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Byzantine art, an introduction

Byzantine art, an introduction

By Dr. Ellen Hurst

To speak of "Byzantine Art" is a flake problematic, since the Byzantine empire and its art spanned more than than a millennium and penetrated geographic regions far from its capital in Constantinople. Thus, Byzantine art includes piece of work created from the 4th century to the...

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Icons, an introduction

Icons, an introduction

Anglo-Saxon England

Anglo-Saxon England

By The British Museum

After crossing the Channel and invading Britain, the Anglo-Saxons ruled for 500 years. Rings offering clues to their gild.

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Introduction to Islam

Introduction to Islam

Introduction to mosque architecture

Introduction to mosque architecture

By Kendra Weisbin

From Republic of indonesia to the Uk, the mosque in its many forms is the quintessential Islamic edifice. The mosque, masjid in Arabic, is the Muslim gathering place for prayer. Masjid only means "identify of prostration." Though most of the five daily prayers...

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Arts of the Islamic world: the early on flow

Arts of the Islamic world: The early period

Past Glenna Barlow

2 powerful dynasties, the Umayyad and the Abbasid, ruled the Islamic World between the 7th and 13th centuries.

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Arts of the Islamic world: The medieval period

Arts of the Islamic world: The medieval period

By Glenna Barlow

New rulers emerged, and with them, distinctive styles of fine art. This catamenia saw a renaissance in the decorative arts.

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Arts of the Islamic world: The later period

Arts of the Islamic world: The later period

Past Glenna Barlow

The Islamic world extended from Spain to Indonesia, where Ottomans, Timurids, Safavids, and Mughals ruled.

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Jewish history to the middle ages

Jewish history to the middle ages

Gothic architecture, an introduction

Gothic architecture, an introduction

Past Valerie Spanswick

Forget the clan of the word "Gothic" to dark, haunted houses, Wuthering Heights, or ghostly pale people wearing black nail smooth and ripped fishnets. The original Gothic style was really adult to bring sunshine into people's lives, and especially into...

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Introduction to Late Gothic fine art

Introduction to Late Gothic art

The Medieval and Renaissance Altarpiece

The Medieval and Renaissance Altarpiece

How to recognize Italian Renaissance art

How to recognize Italian Renaissance art

Humanism in renaissance Italy

Humanism in renaissance Italy

By Dr. John One thousand. Chase

Humanism looked to artifact for inspiration in reforming gild and had a tremendous touch on all aspects of life.

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Humanism in Italian renaissance art

Humanism in Italian renaissance art

Past Dr. Heather Graham

Artists explored new approaches to class inspired past surviving art and architecture from antiquity as well equally ancient authors' discussions of them.

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Contrapposto explained

Contrapposto explained

How one-point linear perspective works

How one-point linear perspective works

Toward the High Renaissance, an introduction

Toward the High Renaissance, an introduction

Types of Renaissance patronage

Types of renaissance patronage

An introduction to the Northern Renaissance in the fifteenth century

An introduction to the Northern Renaissance in the fifteenth century

Past Dr. Bonnie Noble

From the advent of the press printing to the perfection of oil pigment, this was a time of alter in northern Europe.

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Mannerism, an introduction

Mannerism, an introduction

An introduction to the Northern Renaissance in the sixteenth century

An introduction to the Northern Renaissance in the sixteenth century

Baroque art, an introduction

Baroque art, an introduction

How to recognize Baroque art

How to recognize Baroque art

Introduction to the Global Baroque

Introduction to the Global Baroque

By Dr. Carmen Ripollés

We tin't deny that one strand of the global Baroque is its Catholic, monarchical, and colonizing nature, merely this doesn't mean that there wasn't room for artistic individuality, experimentation, or fifty-fifty dissent.

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The Protestant Reformation

The Protestant Reformation

New Spain, an introduction

New Spain, an introduction

Introduction to the Castilian Viceroyalties in the Americas

Introduction to the Spanish Viceroyalties in the Americas

Introduction to the Viceroyalty of Peru

Introduction to the Viceroyalty of Peru

Defensive saints and angels in the Spanish Americas

Defensive saints and angels in the Spanish Americas

By Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank

Images of angels and saints as protectors were common in the 16th–18th Castilian Americas to symbolize their defence force of the Christian religion.

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