SCHEDULE OF ONLINE IMAGES: HEAVEN, HELL AND JUDGMENT

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Jan 26 Images from Inanna by Wolkstein & Kramer, Harper 1983. Annotations on the Art by Elizabeth Williams-Forte. Images mostly from cylinder seals from 3rd millennium B.C. Mesopotamia.
 “Feather of Maat” Egyptian funerary scene, 2nd millennium B.C.

Feb 2  Manuscript illuminations from the Bamberger Apocalypse, 1000A.D.
Scenes from first eleven chapters of the Apocalypse (Revelation).

Feb 9 Athenian Black Figure Vase, 5th century B.C., Hermes Weighing Souls. Etruscan Sarcophagus, 4th century B.C. scene of Odysseus slaying ram at entrance to Hades. Diagram of Virgil’s Lower World.

Feb 16 Manuscript illuminations from the Bamberger Apocalypse, 1000A.D.
  Scenes from Chapters 12 to 22 of the Apocalypse (Revelation).

Feb 23 Medieval images of the Last Judgment

Mar 2 M anuscript illuminations from the Beatus Apocalypse Commentary, tenth century A.D of Last Judgments

Mar 9 Images influencing and influenced by Dante's Commedia. Tondal. posted on Brightspace.

Mar 16 no class midsemester break

Mar 23 Commedia images.

March 30 Commedia images

Apr 6 Signorelli’s Orvieto Cathedral frescoes.
  Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel “Last Judgment” fresco.

Apr 13  Hieronymus Bosch images
  Illustrations to Milton’s Paradise Lost

Apr 20 Blake's The Marriage of Heaven & Hell images not on line. Use textbook, but you can access a variety of MHH texts online at http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/

 

Apr 27 No images. Film.

 

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