SCHEDULE OF ONLINE IMAGES: HEAVEN, HELL AND JUDGMENT

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Jan 27 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 3  Manuscript illuminations from the Bamberger Apocalypse, 1000A.D.
Scenes from first eleven chapters of the Apocalypse (Revelation).

Feb 10 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 17 Manuscript illuminations from the Bamberger Apocalypse, 1000A.D.
  Scenes from Chapters 12 to 22 of the Apocalypse (Revelation).

Feb 24 Medieval images of the Last Judgment

Feb 3 Manuscript illuminations from the Beatus Apocalypse Commentary, tenth century A.D of Last Judgments

Mar 10 Images influencing and influenced by Dante's Commedia. Tondal. posted on Brightspace.

Mar 17 no class midsemester break

Mar 24 Commedia images.

March 31 Commedia images

Apr 7 Signorelli’s Orvieto Cathedral frescoes.
  Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel “Last Judgment” fresco.

Apr 14  Hieronymus Bosch images
  Illustrations to Milton’s Paradise Lost

Apr 21 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 28 No images. Film.

 

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