Sutton Hoo Treasure
-jeweled purse -found in burial of King Anna of East Anglia (d. 654 CE)
Oratory Chapel at Germigny-des-pries
Greek cross plan -built by Bishop Theodulf of Orleans -east apse has a unique mosaic of cherubs over Ark of the Covenant (Charlemange uses old testament for decoration)
The Gatehouse of the Monastery at Lorsch
- late 8th C -ceremonial, resembles triumphal arch, designs from gospel books
- charlemange’s court were nomadic and used monasteries as temporary locations
Westwerk, imperial Monastery church, Corvey
- c.873-85 -only surviving example of a Carolingian westwerk
- recalls towers of a city gate or defensive fortress
- imagery of both church and state
St. Gall plan for an ideal Benedictine monastery
-c.819-26 -oldest preserved architectural document from the middle ages -discovered in the monastery library in St. Gall, Switzerland, 1939 -double ended semi dome (double ended basilica)
Sources of Carolingian buildings
- Roman Architecture 2.Early Christian Architecture 3. Northern temperament, decorative art from Migration period
Charlemagne’s Palatine Chapel at Aachen
- c. 790s-814 -Odo of Metz -modeled on San Vitale
- mosaics in dome show Christ seated in judgment, surrounded by 24 elders
Church of St. Pantaleon
- c.870 -Germany -Empress Theophane (wife of Otto II) added a much larger westwerk and an apse with crypt at east end
- somewhat coffered ceiling.
- gallery arcade is multicolored
The Benedictine Monastery Church of St. Michael
- Hildesheim, Germany
- 1001-1033
- double ender
- ambulatory surrounds subterraean crypt
Benedictine Monastery Church of St. Michael
-c. 1001-1033 -Hildesheim, Germany
Gemrode nunnery church
- built after 961
- high clerestory similar to Hildesheim
Codex aureus of St. Emmeram
c780 -cover of gold relief and jewels “Golden Book”
Carpet page fro Lindesfame Gospels
-late 7c -intricate weaving and interlacements -geometric framework -made by monks in scriptorium
Book of Kells
-early 9c -interlaced fantasy and figures
San Juan de Banos
-Palencia, Spain -c661 -fragmented space became the in thing for christianity
San Pedro de la Nave
c691 -historic capital from the Book of Exodus: Abraham’s disobedience to God -Nave covered by wood truss
