SCHEDULE OF ONLINE IMAGES: HEAVEN, HELL AND JUDGMENT

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Jan 23   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.

Jan 30   Manuscript illuminations from the Bamberger Apocalypse, 1000A.D.
Scenes from first eleven chapters of the Apocalypse (Revelation).

Feb 6  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 13  Manuscript illuminations from the Bamberger Apocalypse, 1000A.D.
  Scenes from Chapters 12 to 22 of the Apocalypse (Revelation).

Feb 20   Medieval images of Last Judgments

Feb 27 Manuscript illuminations from the Beatus Apocalypse Commentary, tenth century A.D.
Images influencing and influenced by Dante’s Commedia. Tondal.

Mar 12 no class midsemester break

Mar 19  Commedia images.

Mar 26   Commedia images

April 2    Signorelli’s Orvieto Cathedral frescoes.
  Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel “Last Judgment” fresco.

Apr 9   Hieronymus Bosch images
  Illustrations to Milton’s Paradise Lost

Apr 16 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 23 As above.

April 30 no images

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