Monday, November 24, 2008

David Composing Psalms

Name: David composing Pslams, Paris Psaltar
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Date: 960 AD
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Style: Mid-Byzantine
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Iphigenia Veroli

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Name: Veroli Casket of the Sacrifice of Iphigenia
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Date:900 to 1,000 AD
Location: Constantinople, Byzantium
Size: 16 inches long
Style: mid-Byzantine
Material: Ivory
Construction/Technique: high relief
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Doumo of Piazza dei Miracoli

The Piazza dei Miracoli. The Baptistery is in the foreground, the Duomo is in the center, and the leaning tower in the background on the right.
Name: Doumo of Piazza dei Miracoli, Santa Maria Assunta
Artist: Buscheto
Date: 1063
Location:Pisa, Tuscany, Italy
Size: 5 nave, 3 transept
Style: Pisan-Romanesque with Byzantine murals
Material: Grey marble, white stone
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The leaning Tower of Pisa

Name: Leaning tower of Pisa
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Date: 1173-1392
Location: Pisa, Italy
Size: 186 feet high
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Construction/Technique: Campanile
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The Church of Pisa

Name: Baptistry of John
Artist:Diotisalvi
Date: 1363
Location: Pisa, Italy
Size: circum. 117m
Style: Romanesque and Gothic
Material: marble
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Chartres Cathedral

Cathedral of Chartres
Name: Our Lady of Chartres Cathedral
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Date: 1194-1220
Location: Chartres, France southwest of Paris
Size: tall spire: 375 feet, short spire: 350 total area: 117,000 square feet
Style: Gothic (one of the finest examples)
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History: houses sancta camisa relic

St. Denis

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Name: Basilique Saint-Denis
Artist: Abbot Suger
Date: 1144
Location: Paris, France
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Style: mainly Romanesque, but first Gothic used
Material: only original in ambulatory
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History: all but three French kings buried here