Medieval 4

Question 1

Answer 1

The Lover seeks entry into the garden, Roman de la Rose (Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun), Paris, c. 1400, London BL Ms Egerton 1060, f. 1r

• Romance of the rose is a quest where the lover is searching for a rose (the figure and object of love)
• The dream narrative
• Was written in about 1230
• Lorris wrote the first poem and Meun wrote the second poem
• Wall is painted with allegorical figures—vices
• Personified “idleness” or “free time” lets him into the closed room
• Combining religious and secular
• Mary was considered “the closed garden”
• This idea that in a garden there is sin, there is religious purity, etc.

Question 2

Answer 2

Love shoots his arrow into the Lover’s eye, Roman de la Rose (Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun), Paris, c. 1390,

• Blinded by love
• Love at first sight

Question 3

Answer 3

Narcissus and Echo, Roman de la Rose (Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun), Paris, c. 1390

• Narcissus looks in the water and can’t stop looking at himself and eventually dies
• As he sees himself and he tries to grab his own reflection and can’t

Question 4

Answer 4

Pygmalion at work, Roman de la Rose (Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun), Paris, c. 1350

• Pygmalion was a sculpture and he falls in love with his statue
• He prays to Aphrodite and confesses his love for his statue
• Aphrodite eventually turns the statue into a person and they fall in love

Question 5

Answer 5

July Calendar Page, Très Riches Heures of Jean de Berry, Paris, 1409-1416

Question 6

Answer 6

The Painter and the Devil, Cantiga 74, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Barcelona, Spain, c. 1250-1275

• King Alfonso X of Spain commissioned
• The King loved different kinds of texts
• Collection of miracles

Question 7

Answer 7

Jean le Noir, The Three Living and the Three Dead, Psalter and Hours of Jeanne of Luxembourg, Paris, before 1345, New York, Cloisters Collection, ff. 321v-322r

As we are you will become

Question 8

Answer 8

The Tempter, Strasbourg Cathedral west façade, c. 1277

• He is good looking from the front and has serpents all over his back
• The Tempter and the foolish Virgins

Question 9

Answer 9

The Parement of Narbonne, gray wash on silk, Paris, 1375-1378

• Potentially Charles VI commissioned
• Was made to use for the lent period; made to prepare Easter, having some type of personal restriction, the silk is taking part in this lent period
• A beautiful way of alluding to simplicity and removing extra detail
• Detail, Crucifixion and Donors
• Using the scale of colors shows their line skill, not using colors

Question 10

Answer 10

Piat builds the Cathedral, Lives of St Piat and Eleutherius Tapestry, Tournai Cathedral, Tournai, Belgium, 1402, donated by Toussaint Prier, canon of Tournai

• How St. Piat finds the church
• Provides a model for the people
• Create a history and faces to the past
• The building that is being built in the tapestry is the building these are set in

Question 11

Answer 11

Arm Reliquary of the Apostles, Germany, c. 1195

• It was believed that even if you had the smallest part of a saint’s body, the entire body was there
• Making a reliquary a part of the body emphasized the presence of the saint

Question 12

Answer 12

Jean le Noir, Bonne of Luxembourg and John of France before the Crucifix, Psalter and Hours of Bonne of Luxembourg, Paris, c. 1345

Question 13

Answer 13

Jean le Noir, Wound of Christ and Instruments of the Passion, Psalter and Hours of Bonne of Luxembourg, Paris, c. 1345

• The patrons are at the sight of the crucifixion and Christ is pointing to his wounds
• Detail of the wound; idea of being closer to god
• Wound was just opposite of the heart

Question 14

Answer 14

Goldenes Rössl, Paris, c. 1405

• Made of gold, stones, pearls, etc.
• Classical cameos
• Secular and religious