Art & Architecture

Cimabue "The betrayal of Christ"

Middle Ages Art

Middle Age artists were predominantly priests and monks who lived in monasteries.  The later Middle Ages artists came from varying  walks of life   Gothic Art  emerged later  pioneered by several great artists during that period.  It was during this period that artists broke away from the influences of the Byzantium art style. Thus it developed into the visual art of the Gothic and Middle Ages

It was the Medieval artists, sculptors and painters who were founders of a movement towards realism which culminated in the Renaissance art style (with artists like Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci).

Names of Famous Middle Ages Artists:

Donatello
Giotto
Leon Battista Alberti
Cimabue
Filippo Brunelleschi
Fra Angelico
Lorenzo Ghiberti



Middle Ages Women Artists

These are the known names of Middle Ages women artists some who were manuscript illuminators:

• Claricia - German female artist and nun who illuminated manuscripts in the 12th century
  
  
• Herrad of Landsberg (1125-1195) Abbess of Hohenburg
  
  
• Ende - 11th century nun and illuminator
  
  
• Guda or Guta - German 12th century nun and illuminator
  
  
• Diemud or Diemudis (1057-1130) - 12th century Bavarian nun and illuminator
  
  
• Abbess Hitda
  
  
• Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
  
  

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Castillo de Coca, Segovia, Spain late 15th century

Castle at Monte Titano, San Marno, Italy

Castile Alcazar Leon, Spain, 1120

Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria, Germany 1892 (not a medieval castle, built by Ludwig who loved the romance of medieval castles)

Cochem Reichsburg Castle, Germany 11th Century

Usse, Indre Valley, France 11th Century

Chillon Castle Veytaux, Switzerland, 1150

Burg Sooneck Castle, Mainz - Bingen, Germany 1281

Fortress town of Carcassonne, Aude France 5th Century

Chateau Chambord, Loir et Cher, France, 1500's early Renaissance

Chatteau Chenonceau, France, 11th century

Medieval Architecture

Bodiam Castle, 1385 Architect: Edward Dalynigriegge

• Religious Cathedrals were built on the Latin Cross floor plan with a nave, transepts and alter
  

• Military Castles served as defense.  They had  fortified walls where crossbowmen shot at invaders from cross shaped windows.  Soldiers were able to seek shelter behind crenelated battlements.

• Civil Homes  Half timbered

                                        Jettying (the upper story project beyond the lower building)

• Pre Romanesque
• Romanesque  11th to 12 century columns and arches
  
• Gothic  11th to 12th centuries flying buttresses, arches, stained glass windows of Biblical scenes such as those at  Ile' de France, Paris
  

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