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Getty 11/94 Chronicles influenced ambitious reenactments of of events from
classical + medieval history that were staged as
theatrical entertainment at the aristocratic coirts of
Europe.
- Animal + nature studies were a particular interest
of north Italian artists who illust. medical + botanical
treatises of the 2nd 1/2 of the 14th C.
- St. Anthony (Jan 17) d. 356 - protector of animals
+ a patron against epilepsy + pestilence.
- Romance of the Rose - recounts the dream of a lover
who enters an enchanted garden + falls in lover with
a woman symbolized by a rose.
- putti - winged youths.
-Versal lettters were drawn with a small almost pointed
flexible goose quill. They were outlined + then the
middle parts were filled in.

12 great feasts (major holidays in Orthodox calendar)
Annunciation Crucifixion
Nativity Anastasis (Harrowing of Hell)
Presentation in the Temple Ascension
Baptism Pentacost
Transfiguation Koimesis (Formition) of the
Virgin, Mary's death - knowm
today in the west as
the Assumption Aug. 15
Raising of Lazarus

Triptyeh (3 folds) central panel + 2 wings

Byzantium 330-1453 - Ottoman {Roman - political fabric.
Christian in faith
Greek in its language.