Europe

Comics in European History

This is a growing page of resources for sequential art in general European history…

PREHISTORIC EUROPE:

•  French Cave Paintings & Rock Art Archive (Bradshaw Foundation)
• “Was European Cave Art the Earliest Form of Cinema?” (from PRI’s The World)

ROMAN EMPIRE

• Trajan’s Column (on Wikipedia)
  • Read in “cartoon” form
  • Scene-by-scene descriptions
• Column of Marcus Aurelius (on Wikipedia)
• Column of Arcadius (on Wikipedia)
• Portonaccio Sarcophagus (on Wikipedia)

EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD

• Insular Art (on Wikipedia)
• Book of Kells (on Wikipedia)
  • Pages on “Sacred Texts”
  • Pages on Snake.net

MEDIEVAL PERIOD

• Bayeux Tapestry (on Wikipedia)
  • English translation
  • Bayeux Tapestry Museum
  • A note on scandals: “ARNOLD AND AELFGYVA” from The New Yorker …
• “European Tapestry Production and Patronage, 1400–1600″ (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• Chartres Cathedral
  •  The Charlemagne Window
  • Many, many, many other amazing windows
• Karen Green on Medieval Comics @ Comixology: “What’s a Nice Medievalist Like You Doing in a Place Like This?”

LATE MEDIEVAL

• Book of Hours (on Wikipedia)
  • Page through a book online
  • Hypertext edition

ROMANTIC ERA

• Thomas Cole [wikipedia]
  • 
    “Course of Empire” [wikipedia]

• 
  Painted Monasteries of Romania [also see web images]

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“European Comics” on Wikipedia
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