Crucifixion, front cover, Lindau Gospels

a. How does this work define its style?

b. How does it reflect earlier traditions?

c. What is the medium?

Answers will vary.

a. It reiterates the taste for sumptuously wrought materials seen in earlier generations of rulers. Not only do the materials glorify the Word of God, but they also invoke the heavenly Jerusalem.

b. The Christ figure is rendered in the Early Christian youthful style; the presentation echoes the figure from the ivory casket.

c. Gold, precious stones, and pearls.