Pre-Romanesque art

German art, for the roughly 136 year period 919-1056, is commonly called "Ottonian art" (part of what is sometimes called the Ottonian Renaissance), after the three Saxon Emperors named Otto: (Otto the Great, Otto II and Otto III) who ruled the Holy Roman Empire from 919-1024—as well as the Franco-Salian emperors Conrad II (r. 1024-1039) and Henry III (r. 1039-1056). After the decline of the Carolignian Empire, the Holy Roman Empire was re-established under the Saxon Ottonian dynasty. From this emerged a renewed faith ...

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The most numerous surviving works of the Carolingian renaissance are illuminated manuscripts. Under Charlemagne's direction, new Gospels and liturgical works were prepared, as were teaching materials such as historical, literary and scientific works from ancient authors. Carolingian art had different monastic centers throughout the Carolingian Empire, known as ateliers, and each atelier had its own style that developed based on the artists and influences of that particular location and time. The earliest was the Court School of Charle ...

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Carolingians found a taste for Mediterranean art when Charlemagne set out to rival the splendour of the Lateran in Rome where he had been crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800. As symbolic representative of Rome (and by title), he sought the renovatio (revival) of Roman culture and learning in the West, and thus became a patron of the arts. He wished to establish himself as the heir to the great rulers of the past, to emulate and symbolically link the artistic achievements of Early Ch ...

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Spolia is the Latin term for "spoils" and is used to refer to the taking or appropriation of ancient monumental or other art works for new uses or locations. We know that many marbles and columns were brought from Rome northward during this period. Perhaps the most famous example of Carolingian spolia is the tale of an equestrian statue. In Rome, Charlemagne had seen the bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in the Lateran Palace. It was the only surviving statue of a pre-Christian Roman Emperor because it was mistakenly ...

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We know from written sources of frescos in churches and palaces, although most have not survived. Charlemagne's Aachen palace contained a wall painting of the Liberal Arts, as well as narrative scenes from his war in Spain. The palace of Louis the Pious at Ingelheim contained historical images from antiquity to the time of Charlemagne, and the palace church contained typological scenes of the Old and New Testaments juxtaposition ed next to one another. Fragmentary paintings have survived at Auxerre, Coblenz, Lorsch, Cologne, Fulda, Corvey, Trier, Mustair, M ...

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Carolingian sculptors created book covers in carved ivory, with themes largely derived from Late Antiquity paintings. For example the front and back covers of the Lorsch Gospels are of a 6th century Imperial triumph, adapted to the triumph of Christ and the Virgin. Charlemagne revived large-scale bronze casting when he created a foundry at Aachen which cast the doors for his palace chapel, in imitation of Roman design. The finest example of Carolingian goldsmith work was the Golden Altar (824–859) (picture:altar), also known ...

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Art periods, movements, and groups. Art periods - Prehistoric art. Pre-historic art | Category:Pre-historic art Cave painting Section to be expanded. Art periods - African art. African art | Category:African art Section to be expanded. Art periods - Oceania art. Section to be expanded. Art periods - South American art. Section to be expanded.Including:

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Medieval artists in Europe depended, in varying degrees, upon artistic heritage of the Roman Empire and upon the legacy of the early Christian church. These sources were mixed with the vigorous "Barbarian" artistic culture of Northern Europe to produce a remarkable artistic legacy. Indeed the history of medieval art can be seen as the history of the interplay between the elements of classical, early Christian and "Barbarian" art. M ...

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Medieval art by type Ceramic Mosaic Tessera Pottery Lusterware Sculpture Engraving Glass art Sculpture Stained glass Iconography or Icon Heraldry Manuscript Book binding Calligraphy Minuscule Illuminated manuscript Printing Woodcut Metalwork Sculp ...

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After the demise of the Carolingian Empire, France split into a number of feuding provinces, so that lacking any organized patronage, French art of the 10th and 11th centuries was produced by local monasteries for the purpose of spreading literacy (and piety); however the primitive styles produced did not match the techniques of the Carolingian period. Multiple regional styles developed based on the chance availability of Carolingian manuscripts (as models to draw from), and the availability of itinerant artists. The monastery of Sain ...

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