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Hans
Höllander.
Early
Medieval.
London: The Herbert Press, 1990
(previously issued by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974).
The Herbert History of Art &
Architecture
series.
ISBN
1871569117.
Paperback, stitch bound.
151x218mm.
192pp inc. 152
illustrations
(44 pages in colour).
English.
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The
five centuries
of early medieval art, from the sixth to the eleventh, was the period
of
transition in which European art of the Middle Ages was born. Although
the period lacks unifying characteristics, four artistic centres are
clearly
discernible - Irish, Anglo-Saxon, Carolingian and Ottonian. The
monastic
artist-scholars of these centres left a vast heritage of illuminated
manuscripts.
But their boundless stylistic explorations, like the Lindisfarne
Gospels,
are not the only flowering of early medieval art, which encompasses
also
the work of master craftsmen such as those who designed and cast the
magnificent
doors at Hildesheim. Although Charlemagne's Chapel Royal at Aachen is
one
of the few buildings left from this period, the surviving gems of the
allied
architectural arts of mosaic, carving and fresco give us some idea of
the
glories of the age.
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