<< Comics Workshop RECOMMENDED READING

Some basic sequential art history resources…
SEE ALSO: Comics in WWII >>
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
- Column of Marcus Aurelius (on Wikipedia)
- Column of Arcadius (on Wikipedia)
- Portonaccio Sarcophagus (on Wikipedia)
EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD
MEDIEVAL PERIOD
Bayeux Tapestry

Read the full tapestry >>
1066: The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry (Andrew BRIDGEFORD)
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)
ALSO SEE: The New Yorker’s 1944 D-Day Cover!
About this cover: The Rockwell Center’s “Tapestry of Invasion” >>
“European Tapestry Production and Patronage, 1400–1600″ (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Many, many, many other amazing windows
LATE MEDIEVAL
Book of Hours (on Wikipedia)
RENAISSANCE
The Garden of Earthly Delights (Hieronymous Bosch, c.1500?)
Isenheim Altarpiece (1512-1516)
ROMANTIC ERA
- Thomas Cole [wikipedia]
- Painted Monasteries of Romania [also see web images]
Add Cold War Comics
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