Feature Archive Thomas Hoving's personal choice of the Greatest Works of Art of Western Civilization      A note about navigation: all external links open in a new window, and many of these spawn a second window if you click to enlarge an item. The Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance   Artist      Title of Work      Date      Medium Italian The Mosaics of San Vitale San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy Images from a personal website... Two images from the WorldArt database... Reading San Vitale's Mosaics... 546-47 mosaic Byzantine The Cyprus Plates Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 629–630 silver Irish The Book of Kells Trinity College, Dublin Additional individual images can be seen here, here and here. More images are at this German website, Evangeliar von Kells... Amazon.com feature: Preview high-quality images in these books:      The Book of Kells: An Illustrated Introduction      The Book of Kells: Selected Plates in Full Color      Book of Kells Postcards 800 illumination European The Utrecht Psalter University Library, Utrecht UNESCO has put images from the psalter online: select psalm 1 or psalm 2... 816-35 manuscript English Bendictional of St. Ethelwold British Museum, London 980 illumination French Reliquary-Statue of Ste.-Foy Church of Ste.-Foy, Conques 10th C. sculpture English The Bayeux Tapestry Musée de Peinture, Bayeux, France Complete tapestry in 35 parts... 1073-83 tapestry Gislebertus Eve, from The Last Judgement Musée Rolin, Autun, France 1125-35 sculpture Nicholas of Verdun Altarpiece of Klosterneuberg Abbey Church, Klosterneuberg, Austria 1181 gold/enamel German The Bamberg Rider Bamberg Cathedral, Bamberg, Germany 1230-40 sculpture Nicola Pisano Pulpit Baptistery, Pisa Many details of the sculptures can be seen at THAIS and at the Web Gallery of Art... 1259-60 sculpture English The Gothic Gittern British Museum, London 1280 instrument Giotto Lamentation (The Mourning of Christ) Arena Chapel, Padua 1305-06 painting French Saint Agnes Gold Cup British Museum, London 1370-80 gold French Parement of Narbonne Musée du Louvre, Paris 1375 drawing Nicolas Bataille Hennequin de Bruges The Apocalypse Tapestries Musée des Tapisseries, Château d'Angers, France Google translation of a Yahoo France page on the tapestries with two additional images... 1375-80 tapestry European The Wilton Diptych      I: Richard II with Two Saints     II: Virgin & Child with Angels National Gallery, London 1395-99 painting Claus Sluter The Well of Moses Chartreuse de Champmol, Dijon Additional works from The Well of Moses... 1395-1406 sculpture Master Hugo Bury St. Edmunds Cross The Cloisters, New York Two-part article by Hoving on the Cross... 14th C. ivory Bohemian The Bohemian Madonna National Museum of Prague 1410 painting Hermann Limbourg Jean Limbourg Paul Limbourg Les Très Riches Heures of the Duc du Berry Musée Conde, Chantily Complete presentation and narrative of the book at Christus Rex... 1413-16 illumination The Rohan Master Dying Man Before Christ Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris 1415-25 illumination Jan van Eyck Hubert van Eyck Ghent Altarpiece Cathedral of Saint-Bavo, Ghent, Belgium Complete presentation of the altarpiece at the Web Gallery of Art... 1425-32 painting Lorenzo Ghiberti The Gates of Paradise Baptistery, Florence Complete documentation of the door at the Web Gallery of Art... 1425-37 relief Masaccio Expulsion from the Garden of Eden Church of S.Maria del Carmine, Florence 1427 painting Paolo Uccello The Battle of San Romano series:      Left panel (National Gallery, London)      Center panel (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)      Right panel (Louvre, Paris) 1445 paintings Piero della Francesca Resurrection Pinacoteca Comunale, Sansepolcro 1450 mural Master E.S. Alphabet:      Letter 'B'      Letter 'Q' 15th C. engravings European The Lady with the Unicorn Tapestries Musée de Cluny, Paris 15th C. tapestry Enguerrand Quarton The Villeneuve-lès-Avignon Pietà Musée du Louvre, Paris 1455 painting Donatello Mary Magdalen Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence 1454-55 sculpture Andrea Mantegna Calvary Musée du Louvre, Paris 1457-60 painting Hugo van der Goes Portinari Altarpiece Galleria della Uffizi, Florence Many additional details of the altarpiece... 1475-76 painting Veit Stoss Kraków Altarpiece Church of Notre Dame, Kraków 1477-89 sculpture Jump to: • Ancient Art Through the Classical Era • The Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance • The High Renaissance and the Late Renaissance • The Baroque and Rococo Eras • The Nineteenth Century • The Twentieth Century