Comics in European History

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Basic sequential art history resources…

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PREHISTORIC EUROPE:

•  French Cave Paintings & Rock Art Archive (Bradshaw Foundation)
• “Was European Cave Art the Earliest Form of Cinema?” (from PRI’s The World)

ANCIENT GREECE

• MetMusem.org: Greek Art in the Archaic Period
  = The rise of narrative art!
• THEOI Project
  = Greek deities in classical art & literature…

ROMAN EMPIRE

• Trajan’s Column (on Wikipedia) Read in “cartoon” form / Scene-by-scene descriptions
• Column of Marcus Aurelius (on Wikipedia)
• Column of Arcadius (on Wikipedia)
• Portonaccio Sarcophagus (on Wikipedia)

EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD

• Insular Art (on Wikipedia)
• Book of Kells (on Wikipedia)
  • Pages on “Sacred Texts”
  • Pages on Snake.net

MEDIEVAL PERIOD

Bayeux Tapestry

Read the full tapestry >>

English translation

Bayeux Tapestry Museum

A note on scandals: “ARNOLD AND AELFGYVA” from The New Yorker …

The Book of the Bayeux Tapestry, Presenting the Complete Work in a Series of Colour Facsimiles (1914)

“European Tapestry Production and Patronage, 1400–1600″ (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Chartres Cathedral

 The Charlemagne Window

Many, many, many other amazing windows

LATE MEDIEVAL

• Book of Hours (on Wikipedia)
  • Page through a book online
  • Hypertext edition

RENAISSANCE

• The Garden of Earthly Delights (Hieronymous Bosch, c.1500?)
• Isenheim Altarpiece (1512-1516)

ROMANTIC ERA

• Thomas Cole [wikipedia]
  • 
    “Course of Empire” [wikipedia]
• Painted Monasteries of Romania [also see web images]

MORE:

Lord Vulgamore’s Archive
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“European Comics” on Wikipedia
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