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Carolingian art

History

Ivory plaque, probably from a book cover, Reims late 9th century, with two scenes of Life of St. Remy and the baptism of Clovis

After having established an empire as vast as the Byzantine Empire of the day, rivaling the size of the former Western Roman Empire, the Carolingian court must have been aware that they were not an artistic style to meet even the post-classical (or "sub-historical" as Ernst Kitzinger called) art continue to be produced in small quantities in Rome and some other centers in Italy, that Charlemagne knew of his campaigns, and where he was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome in 800.

As symbolic representative of Rome, he asked renovatio (revival) of Roman culture and learning in the West, and needed an art able to tell stories and representative figures with an efficiency that ornamental Germanic Migration period art could not. He wanted to be recognized as the heir of great rulers of the past, to emulate and symbolically link the artistic achievements of early Christian culture Byzantine and hers.

But it was more than a conscious desire to revive the ancient Roman culture. During the reign of Charlemagne controversy Byzantine Iconoclasm Byzantine Empire divided the empire. Charlemagne supported continued refusal of the Church of the West to follow iconoclasm, Carolina Libri gives the position of his court circle, presumably under his direction. In the absence of inhibition from a cultural memory of idolatry pagan Mediterranean Charlemagne introduced the first Christian religious sculpture, an important precedent for Western art.

Reasonable number of Carolingian illuminated manuscripts and small sculptures, mostly in ivory, survived, but much less examples of metallurgy, mosaics and frescoes and other types of work. Many manuscripts, especially copies and reinterpretations of late antiquity or Byzantine models, almost all lost, and the nature of the influence of specific models on the various work Carolingian remains a constant theme in the history art. In addition to these influences, energy extravagant art insular added flavor specified Carolingian work, which interlacedecoration sometimes used, and followed with more caution freedom by allowing the island decor and spread throughout the text on the page of a manuscript.

With the end of Carolingian rule around 900, the production of high artistic quality declined sharply for about three generations Empire. In the 10th century later with the reform movement of Cluny, and a spirit revived the idea of ​​Empire, art production has begun again. New styles pre-novel published in Germany with the Ottonian art of the next dynasty stable in England with the Anglo-Saxon art later, after the Viking threat was removed, and Spain.

Illuminated Manuscripts

Sacramentary of Drogo, ca. 850: an initial storied 'C' contains the Ascension of Christ. The text is in gold ink.

The most numerous surviving works of the Carolingian Renaissance manuscripts are illuminated. A number of luxury manuscripts, most books Gospel, survived, adorned with a relatively small number of full-page miniatures, often including evangelist portraits, tables and sumptuous barrel, after the precedent of the art island of Great Britain and Ireland. narrative images and in particular rings are rarer, but there are many, especially the Old Testament, especially Genesis – New Testament scenes are more often on the ivory relief blankets. The over-sized and heavily decorated initials art island have been adopted, and Initial storied developed with small narrative scenes seen for the first time towards the end of the period – particularly in the Sacramentary of Drogo. Manuscripts Deluxe covers were given rich gold jewelry and carved ivory panels, and, as in art island were preserved objects of prestige in the church or cash, and another class of the object from work manuscripts preserved at the library, where some may be decorated initials, drawings in pen and added in some places. Some of the greatest imperial manuscripts were written on parchment purple. The Physiologus Berne is a relatively rare example of a richly illustrated manuscript lay fully painted miniatures, lies between these two classes, and can be produced for the private library of an important person. The Utrecht Psalter, is itself a library version richly illustrated Psalms in pen and wash, and almost certainly copied from a much earlier manuscript.

Other works sometimes liturgical manuscripts produced in the luxury, as sacramental, but no Carolingian Bible is decorated as heavily as the examples that Late Antiquity survive in fragments. educational books such as books theological, historical, literary and scientific of ancient authors were copied and usually only shown in ink, if necessary.

Lighting Centers

Carolingian manuscripts are presumed to have been produced largely or entirely by clerics, in a few workshops around the Carolingian Empire, each with its own style that developed on the basis of artists and influences of this place and time. Manuscripts often have inscriptions, not necessarily contemporary, for whom command, and church or monastery, they were given, but some dates and names and places of those who produce them. The surviving manuscripts were assigned, and often re-assigned to the workshops by the researchers, and controversies attending this process have largely subsided. The first workshop was Court School of Charlemagne, then a style Rheimsian, who became the most influential of the Carolingian period; Touronian style, a style Drogo, and lastly a school the Court of Charles the Bald. These are the major centers, but others exist, characterized by works of art produced there.

St. Mark's Gospels of Ebo. Figurine line drawing with color.

The Court School of Charlemagne (also known as the Ada School) produced the first manuscripts, including the Gospel Godescalc (781 783); the Lorsch Gospels (778 820), the Ada Gospels (Photo: St. Matthew); the Soissons Gospels, the Gospels and the Coronation (photo: St. Matthew). The Court School manuscripts were decorated, ostentatious, and recalls 6th century ivories and mosaics from Ravenna, Italy. They were the first Carolingian manuscripts and initiated a revival of Roman classicism, but still maintained Migration period art (Merovingian and Insular) traditions in their presentation essentially linear, regardless of volume and spatial relationships.

In the early 9th century Archbishop Ebo of Rheims, in Hautvillers (near Reims), meeting artists and art transformed Carolingian something entirely new. The book of Ebbo Gospels (816 835) was painted with quick brush strokes, vivid and fresh, citing an unidentified inspiration and energy in classical Mediterranean forms (see the image of this page and the image: St. Matthew). Other books associated with the school of Reims include the Utrecht Psalter (photo gallery), which was perhaps the most important of all Carolingian manuscripts, Physiologus and Berne, the first Latin edition of the Christian allegorical text on animals. Animations expressive school of Reims, in particular Utrecht Psalter with its naturalistic expressive figurine line drawings would have an influence on the medieval art of the North for centuries to follow, period in the novel.

Another style developed in the monastery of St. Martin of Tours, in which large Bibles were illustrated based on Late Antique Bible illustrations. Three major Touronian Bibles were created, including the last, and best, example was made for about 845/846 Charles the Bald, called the Vivian Bible. The Towers School was cut short by the invading Normans in 853, but his style had already left a permanent mark on other centers of the Carolingian Empire.

In the Utrecht Psalter, 9 C. naturalistic and energetic drawings line figure was completely new innovation and had become the most influential art Carolinian in subsequent periods.

The Diocese of Metz was another center of Carolingian art. Between 850 and 855 a sacramental was made for Bishop Drogo called the Sacramentary of Drogo. The illuminated "historic" decorated initials (see image below-cons) had brought in the novel and have been a period harmonious union of classical literature with figurative scenes.

In the second half of the 9th century the traditions of the first half continued. A number of rich decorated Bibles were made for Charles the Bald, the forms of late antiquity with fusion of styles developed in Reims Tours. It was during this time a Franco-Saxon style appeared in the north of France, integrating Hiberno-Saxon interlace, and would have beaten all other styles Carolingian in the next century.

Charles the Bald, like his grandfather, also established a Court School. Its location is uncertain, but several manuscripts attributed to him, with the Codex Aureus (870) (photo: Charles the Bald Enthroned) being the last and most spectacular. It contained elements Touronian and Rheimsian, but merged with the style that characterizes the Court School of Charlemagne more formal manuscripts.

With the death of Charles the Bald patronage for manuscripts declined, signaling the beginning of the end, but some work will continue for some time. The abbey of St. Gall established the Psalter Folchard (872) and the Psalter of gold (883). Gallish this style was unique, but lacked the technical skill level seen in other regions.

Sculpture and jewelry

Detailed coverage of the book (11 century, not Carolingian).

Luxury Carolingian manuscripts were intended to have adorned covers of precious metal set with jewels around the center of carved ivory panels – sometimes these have been given some time after manuscript itself was produced. Only a few such hedges have survived intact, but most survive individual panels of ivory, which covers were broken for their equipment. The subjects were often religious narrative scenes in the vertical sections, largely from paint and sculptures of Late Antiquity, as well as with other images derived from hieratic consular diptychs and other imperial art, as the front and back of the Lorsch Gospels, which adapt a century imperial triumph at the sixth triumph of Christ and the Virgin.

Charlemagne incorporated bronze scale when he created a foundry at Aachen which cast the doors of his palace chapel, in imitation of Roman models. Chapel has also been a crucifix lost life-size, with the figure of Christ in gold, the earliest known work of this kind, which would become so important characteristic of the art medieval church. Probably a gilded wooden statue was mechanically, like the Virgin Ottonian gold Essen.

One of the finest examples Carolingian goldsmith is the altar of gold (824 859) (photo: the altar), also known as paliotto in the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio Milan. The altars of the four sides are decorated with images pushed back in gold and silver, framed by borders of filigree, gemstones and enamel.

Mosaics and frescoes

Mosaic of the Ark of the Covenant, Germigny-des-Pres, c. 806, but restored. The subject seems to gained from Jewish illuminated Bibles, and refers to the Carolini Libri, perhaps written by Theodulf, where the Ark is cited as a divine approval of holy images.

Mosaics installed in the Palace Chapel of Charlemagne has shown enthroned Christ adored by the symbols of the evangelist and the twenty-four elders of the Apocalypse. This mosaic survives, but over-restored one remains in the apse of the oratory to Germigny-des-Pres (806) which shows the Ark of the Covenant adored by angels, discovered in 1820 under a layer of plaster.

The villa in which oratory was set belonged to a key shareholder of Charlemagne, the Bishop of Orlans Theodulf. It was destroyed later in the century, but had frescoes of the seven liberal arts, the Four Seasons and the Mappa Mundi. We know from other written sources of frescos in churches and palaces, almost all completely lost. Charlemagne's Aachen palace contained a wall painting of Liberal Arts and narrative scenes its war with Spain. The palace of Louis the Pious at Ingelheim contained historical images from antiquity to the time of Charlemagne, and the church Castle contained typological scenes of the Old and New Testament juxtaposed to each other.

fragmentary paintings have survived Auxerre, Coblenz, Lorsch, Cologne, Fulda, Corvey, Trier, Mustair, Trunks, Naturno Cividale, Brescia and Milan.

Spolia

Gospels of Lorsch. Ivory book cover. Late Antique Imperial scenes adapted to a Christian theme.

Spolia is the Latin term for "spoils" and is used to refer to the taking or appropriation of ancient monumental works of art or others for new uses or locations. We know that the balls and columns were from Rome northward during this period.

Perhaps the most famous example of spolia Carolingian is the tale of an equestrian statue. In Rome, Charlemagne had seen the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in the Lateran Palace. It was the only surviving statue of a pre-Christian Roman Emperor because it was erroneously thought at the time, to that of Constantine, therefore held accordharlemagne great and brought a statue of Ravenna, then believed to be that of Theodoric the Great, to Aachen, to match the statue of "Constantine" in Rome.

See also

Carolingian architecture

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Notes

^ Kitzinger, 8

^ Kitzinger, 40-42

^ Kitzinger, 69. Dodwell, 49 discusses the reasons for that.

^ Dodwell, 52

^ Beckwith, 13-17

References

Beckwith, John. Early medieval art: Carolingian, Ottonian, Romanesque, Thames & Hudson, 1964 (rev. 1969), ISBN 050020019X

Dodwell, CR, pictorial arts of the West, 800-1200, 1993 Yale UP, ISBN 0300064934

Joachim E. Gaehde (1989). "Pre-Romanesque Art". Dictionary of the Middle Ages. ISBN 0-684-18276-9

Hinks, Roger. Carolingian art, 1974 ed. (1935 1st edn.) University of Michigan Press, ISBN 0472060716

Kitzinger, Ernst, Early Medieval Art at the British Museum, (1940) 2nd ed, 1955, British Museum

"Carolingian art". Encyclopdia Britannica Online.

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