Timeline of European Art and Music - The 10th Century (muted)
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 Published On Mar 22, 2023

0:00 - 900-920 - Unknown (Irish) - Muiredach's High Cross
High crosses served a variety of functions including, liturgical, ceremonial, and symbolic uses. Divided into panels, decorated with carvings, mostly biblical subjects

1:08 - 900-920 - Unknown (Spanish) - Carved panels
The picture shows the panels separating the chancel and the nave in Santa Cristina de Lena

2:16 - 900-920 - Unknown (Spanish) - Santa Cristina de Lena
A Roman Catholic Asturian pre-Romanesque church. The lattices over the arches and the wall enclosing the central arch were re-used from Visigothic origins in the 7th century

3:24 - Circa 900s - Unknown (Irish) - The Round Tower of Glendalough
The monastery owed its origin to St Kevin, who chose this wild, lonely spot as the site of a hermitage. A century later it had become a flourishing monastery

4:32 - 900-920 - Unknown (Spanish) - Santa Cristina de Lena
One of the most particular elements of Santa Cristina de Lena is the existence of the presbytery elevated above floor level in the last section of the central nave, separated from the area intended for the congregation by three arches on marble columns. This separation, which appears in other Asturian churches, is not repeated in any other with a similar structure

5:40 - Circa 900s - Unknown (Irish) - Cross of Scriptures
The 'Cross of the Scriptures', with its well-modelled, rounded figure sculpture,
is a product of the Durrow–Monasterboice workshop

6:48 - 900-920 - Unknown (Spanish) - Santa Cristina de Lena
Santa Cristina de Lena is a single rectangular space with a barrel vault, with four adjoining structures located in the centre of each facade

7:56 - Circa 900s - Unknown (English) - Stone cross
Vikings, whose original home was Scandinavia, first raided then settled northern Britain and France. Their descendants, the Normans, later conquered England and southern Italy

9:04 - Circa 900s - Unknown (Spanish) - San Cebrián de Mazote
A Mozarab church from the 10th century

10:12 - 913-950 - Unknown (Greek) - The Joshua Roll
The segment shown here (Segment XII) depicts the personification of the city of Gibeon, a woman with a crown of city walls. She is enthroned and seated at an angle to us, and to the left (her right) we see the men of Gibeon prostrated before Joshua, urging that he save them and assist them against their enemies.

11:20 - 913-950 - Unknown (Greek) - The Joshua Roll
This book roll exists only as incomplete segments.

12:28 - 925-950 - Unknown (Greek) - Bible of Leo the Patrician
This manuscript, produced in the Court Scriptorium in Constantinople, is the first and only extant volume of what was originally a two-volume set containing the entir

13:36 - Circa 900s - Unknown (Spanish) - San Cebrián de Mazote
Interior view

14:44 - Circa 900s - Unknown (Greek) - Psalter
This codex is a fragment of simple Psalter made for monks. Folio 4 contains the text of Psalm 45 with a marginal illustration depicting a rather realistic building scene.

15:52 - 945 - Unknown (Spanish) - Beatus of Liébana Commentary on the Revelation of St. John
Folio 222v, representing the New Jerusalem. Here there are twelve gateways, with one of the disciples in each, below a disc, each disc containing a different precious stone.

17:00 - Circa 900s - Unknown (German)
Book cover
This Ottonian ivory book cover from the 10th century depicts a priest at the altar.

18:08 - 945 - Unknown (Spanish) - Beatus of Liébana Commentary on the Revelation of St. John

19:16 - 961 - Margrave Gero (German) - Saint Cyriakus
Church in Gernrode, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

20:24 - 961 - Unknown (German) - Imperial crown
Made for Emperor Otto I (912-973)

21:32 - 962-968 - Unknown (Italian) - Christ Receiving Magdeburg Cathedral from Emperor Otto I

22:40 - 975 - Unknown (Greek) - Paris Psalter
Folio 435v, depicting Isaiah at prayer.

23:48 - 975 - Unknown (Greek) - Paris Psalter
The miniature on folio 1 depict David playing the harp. The reclining figure in the foreground symbolizes Bethlehem, according to the inscription below.

24:56 - 980 - Master of the Registrum Gregorii (German) - Codex Egberti

26:04 - 983-1013 - Unknown (French) - Reliquary Effigy of St Foy

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