Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages: Exploring a Connected World
A website (home) with photographs by Genevra Kornbluth, aligned with the art works in the book.

Chapter 4: Mid-Seventh to Late Eighth Century
Information about specific objects is given in the linked pages of the Kornbluth Photography Historical Archive,
and abbreviations explained.
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4-1: Lateran Baptistery, modern state (2-2) 		Click to enlarge.
4-1: Anastasis rotunda on relics box (3-20) 		Click to enlarge.
4-4: voussoirs 		Click to enlarge.
4-4: Byzantine vegetation sprouting from vase 		Click to enlarge.
4-5: 'Abd al-Malik epigraphic coin
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4-6: coins of Justinian II 		Click to enlarge.
4-6: earlier portrait coin: Justinian I, gold, 527-65, DO BZC 		Click to enlarge.
4-11: city of Jerusalem, 7th century mosaic 		Click to enlarge.
4-11: mosaic with figures removed 		Click to enlarge.
4-12: fresco
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4-12: foreign ruler: Byzantine emperor on gold goin of Theudebert I, Frankish king 534-48, SMBMünz 18202273 		Click to enlarge.
4-12: Roman die in the form of a crouching nude woman, from Sidon, bronze, BM 1924/5-20/2; other views 		Click to enlarge.
4-14: sapphire seal of Visigothic ruler 		Click to enlarge.
4-14: Visigothic coins 		Click to enlarge.
4-14: 8th-century Western relief sculpture
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4-15: Abraham and Isaac 		Click to enlarge.
4-18: marriage ring 		Click to enlarge.
4-18: rings 		Click to enlarge.
4-18: comparable Christian iconography (Visitation) 		Click to enlarge.
4-18: relics box (3-20)
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4-19: related brooch 		Click to enlarge.
4-19: Battersea Shield (1-11) 		Click to enlarge.
4-19: Insular metalwork 		Click to enlarge.
4-19: brooches worn 		Click to enlarge.
4-20: Nagyszentmiklos treasure
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4-20: Avar metalwork 		Click to enlarge.
4-20: Sion treasure (3-8) 		Click to enlarge.
4-20: locally made works referring to foreign products 		Click to enlarge.
4-21: Balthild garment 		Click to enlarge.
4-21: textiles found with Balthild garment
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4-21: Byzantine necklace with pendants 		Click to enlarge.
4-22: relics box, open (3-20) 		Click to enlarge.
4-22: Enger reliquary 		Click to enlarge.
4-22: purse reliquaries 		Click to enlarge.
4-22: enamel
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4-22: Sutton Hoo inlay (3-16) 		Click to enlarge.
4-22: figures in arcade (2-24) 		Click to enlarge.
4-23: Crucifixion amulet (1-21) 		Click to enlarge.
4-23: relics box (3-20) 		Click to enlarge.
4-23: Crucifixion (here 4-18)
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4-23: crown of thorns 		Click to enlarge.
4-24: cenobitic monasticism (2-31) 		Click to enlarge.
4-24: Archangel Michael, 5th-6th c., Kelsey 26128 		Click to enlarge.
4-25: 13th-century tomb of St. Cuthbert, Durham cathedral 		Click to enlarge.
4-25: Matthew
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4-26: animal interlace 		Click to enlarge.
4-26: incipit of a prayer 		Click to enlarge.
4-26: ruling, guidelines for text at upper left and left of titulus