Another post of assorted photos from a museum, the Bode Museum on the Museum Island. This museum is mostly filled with Byzantine, Medieval, and Renaissance art. I really liked the Byzantine stuff. Above you can see a depiction of Pentecost. Below a triptych of the crucifixion.
Above, a mosaic taken from a Byzantine church in Ravenna. Inside the vault, you can see a beardless depiction of Christ (weird, right?) holding a book that says "whoever sees me sees the Father / I and the Father are one"--this, apparently, was aimed at the Arian heresy that was prevalent at the time which said that Christ wasn't God, but was just a special creation of God.
Diptych with scenes from the crucifixion (Paris, 1330). This was a really interesting piece but it wasn't easy to take good photos of it. Below is a detail of the agony in the garden. Interesting how these complicated scenes are depicted.
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The next one shows Christ and the Doctors / The wedding at Cana / Healing of the leper (Metz, 9th century). Again it's interesting how the depictions are, in a way, very formalized and unrealistic, but at the same time very lively and narrative.
Finally an altarpiece, I didn't take a picture of the label so I don't know its provenance (Northwestern Europe, middle ages seems like a safe guess). The level of detail on this thing is just absurd.
These guys look like they came straight out of Asterix and Obelix.
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