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
Greek Art in the Archaic Period (Metropolitan Museum of Art) = The rise of narrative art.
THEOI Project = Greek deities in classical art & literature…
ROMAN EMPIRE
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Trajan’s Column (on Wikipedia)
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Column of Marcus Aurelius (on Wikipedia)
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Column of Arcadius (on Wikipedia)
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Portonaccio Sarcophagus (on Wikipedia)
EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD
MEDIEVAL PERIOD
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Bayeux Tapestry (on Wikipedia)
- 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)
- 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)
- Chartres Cathedral
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Karen Green on Medieval Comics @ Comixology: “What’s a Nice Medievalist Like You Doing in a Place Like This?”
LATE MEDIEVAL
Book of Hours (on Wikipedia)
RENAISSANCE
The Garden of Earthly Delights (Hieronymous Bosch, c.1500?)
Isenheim Altarpiece (1512-1516)
ROMANTIC ERA
Painted Monasteries of Romania [also see web images]
Add Cold War Comics
Good idea. Any suggestions?