Crucifix

Crucifix commissioned by Archbishop Gero

Gero Crucifix  970 C.E.

Cologne Cathedral

Cologne, Germany

Painted wood

Ottoniam sculptor

large scale

Column-Saint Michael's

Column-Saint Michael's

Hildesheim, Germany

1015-1022 C.E.

bronze

commissioned by Bishop Bernward

Saint Michael's abbey church

Top: longitudinal section

Bottom: plan

abbey church of Saint Michael's

Hildesheim, Germany

1001-1031 C.E.

Ottonian basilica design: 2 apses, 2 transepts, side entrance

inspired by tunnel-like horizontal Early Christian basilicas

Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne

Interior of the Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne

Aachen, Germany   792-805 C.E.

1st vaulted medieval structure of the Alps

San Vitale was inspration

massive geometric form

Saint Matthew

Saint Matthew

Ebbo Gospels  folio 18 verso

abbey of Saint Peter

Hautvillers, France

816-835 C.E.

ink & tempera on vellum

classical illusionism w/ Northern European liner

Charlemagne

Equestrian portrait of Charlemagne

A.K.A. Charles the Bald

Metz, France  9th Century

bronze

Carolingian Empire 814 C.E.

Carolingian Empire @ the death of Charlemagne 814 C.E.

consolidated the Frankish Kingdom

defeated the Lombards in Italy

claimed Roman Empire

Carolus Magnus (Latin)