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Basic sequential art history resources…
SEE ALSO: Comics in WWII >>
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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