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Topic 4 - Study Images
Once upon a time

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Part I: Narrative strategies and the visual arts

· Trajan’s Column, 113 AD, Trajan’s forum, Rome (detail)

· Bayeux tapestry, ca. 1070-1080, Bayeaux Cathedral

· Masaccio, Tribute Money, 1420s, Brancacci Chapel, Church of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence

· Codex Zouche-Nutall, c. 1421-1521 AD, British Museum, London

· Sun Stone, 1502-1520 AD, Mexico-Tenochtitlan (today Mexico City)

Part II: Christian typology

· Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus, ca. 359, Rome

· Triumphal arch mosaic cycle, 432-440 AD, Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome (detail)

· Fra Angelico, Annunciation, 1433-34

· Michelangelo, Ceiling frescoes of the Sistine Chapel, 1509-1512, Vatican, Rome

God Separating Light and Dark

Creation of Adam

Jeremiah

Libyan Sibyl

Jonah

· Michelangelo, Last Judgment, 1534-41, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome

Presentations

· Peter Vischer the Younger, Orpheus and Eurydice, ca. 1516

· François Boucher, The rape of Europa, c. 1732

· The Iliad: Thomas Banks, Thetis rising from the sea, 1778

· The Thousand & One Nights: Kris Waldherr, Shahrazade (from the Lover’s path tarot deck), 2006

· The Song of the Nibelungs: Peter von Cornelius, Gunther orders Hagen to drop the hoard into the Rhine, 1859

· Edward Hicks, Noah’s ark, 1846

· Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The tower of Babel, 1563

· Nicholas Markell, Jonah of the whale, before 2006

· Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, c. 1495-1498, refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan

· King Arthur and the knights of the round table: Carving on the archivolt of the Cathedral of Modena reading Artus de Bretani, c. 1099-1120

· Poster of the 1961 movie El Cid