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HA2240

HA2240

UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK

Summer Examinations: 2000/2001

PILGRIMAGE: ART CULT & TRAVEL IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD

Time allowed: 2 hours.

Candidates must attempt ALL questions.

Each question carries the same weight and candidates are advised to spread their time evenly between the questions.

Refer to each image by the number and letter on the back.

Read carefully the instructions on the answer book and make sure that the particulars required are entered on each answer book.

Photographs and photocopies MUST NOT be defaced or removed from the examinations room.

1. Identify and date as closely as possible, and compare A with B.

2. Identify and date as closely as possible, and compare A with B.

3. Identify and date A and B as closely as possible; discuss their images in relation to their respective cult sites.

4. Identify and date as closely as possible, and compare A with B.

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PHOTOMASTER

HA2240

UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK

Summer Examinations: 2000/2001

PILGRIMAGE: ART CULT & TRAVEL IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD

1. A Jerusalem, Holy Sepulchre. Plan in 4C. Basilica & Anastasis rotunda.

B Jerusalem, Holy Sepulchre, by Arculf. As recorded in Adomnan's De locis sanctis, 12C copy, Vienna MS 609, f.4r.

    2. A Canterbury Cathedral, Trinity Chapel, interior. Rebuilt & refitted 1175-1220. Site of Thos Becket's shrine (can.1173).

    B Hereford Cathedral, N Transept, interior (from J Britton, 1831) Transept c1250-1270. Shrine base of Thos Cantilupe, 1287 (can.1320).

      3. A Sinai, St Catherine's monastery church, sanctuary apse mosaic. Transfiguration, c.565.

      B Santiago de Compostela, Cathedral. Pórtico de la Gloria, centre door, detail. Maestro Mateo, c.1166-88. St James the Great with other apostles, beneath Christ enthroned.

      4. A MS, `Pilgrims at the tomb of St Edward the Confessor', c.1255-60. From Life of St Edward the King, Cambr. U.L., MS Ee.3.59, f30.

      B Arm reliquary of the Apostles, c.1190. Cleveland Art Museum.