Comics in European History

<< Comics Workshop RECOMMENDED READING

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COMICS WORKSHOP / Recommended Reading:

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

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)

1066: The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry (Andrew BRIDGEFORD)

“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]
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  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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