Alhambra, 1354-1391

• The "Red Fortress"
• Dense wood of English Elms, brought by the Duke of Wellingtonin 1812
• Lush Gardens
• "A pearl set in emeralds"

Book of Lindisfarn, Late 7th Century

• Carpet Page
  
• Religious text
• Ribbon Interlace
• Animal Interlace, always Anglo Saxton, Ribbon Interlace is always Celtic, 

Chi-Rho Page, book of Kells, Late 8th or early 9th century

• Ireland's greatest Relic
• Resides in Dublin
• Finest example of Hiberno-Saxton (Irish Saxton) Art
• By the 11th ecntury, it was considered the most important religious relic in all the world
• Believed to be the work of angels

Palatine Chapel, 792-805, Odo of Metz--Architect

• The only thing surviving of Charlemagne's Palace
• There is his imperial throne, positioned opposite the priest.
• the designer was Charlemagne's Biographer

Christ Enthroned, Godescalc Evangelistary, 781-783

• Made by Godescalc
• Illuminated Manuscript
• Irish-Saxton art
• Comorates Charlemagne's march to Italy, his meeting with the Pope, and his son's baptism

St Matthew, Coronation Gospels, 800-810

• Three-dimensional form
• color and modulation to create shapes
• the chair, thel ecterm, and the toga are familiar Roman ccessories

Abbey of St Corvey, late 9th of early 10th century

• Towers, and the top of the central tower was added later
• Rough Hewn Stone, a characteristic of Carolingian Architecture.
  
• The emperor sits above the priests, always
• Patterns and designs--northern art

St Foy, late 10th, early 11th century

• Made in honor of "St. Faith", the martyer.
• Popular for pilgrims passing through.

Bronze doors, St Michael, 1001-1031, Benward

• distroyed in the world wars.
• these doors are the only thing left.
• The single most ambitious and complex bronze work since antiquity.
  
• old and new testament scenes, related to eachother (each has it's counterpart).

Abbey Church of St. Cluny

• the most important and the largest of it's kind in the world
• it no longer exists; destroyed in the french revolution.
• An independant abbey.
  
• No temporal law has any power on it's premises. All were anserable to the Abbey, who was answerabld idrectly to the Pope.

St. Sernin 1080-1120

• the first place roman architecture appears.
• Largest church on the pilgrimage road.
  
• Loops the pilgrims in a corcut so as not to interfere with the services.
• leads your eye to the alter.
• branded barrel vault, always early romanesque.

Trumeau, St Pierre 1115-1130