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Barbarian to Carolingian Art
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End of the Classical Era
• The collapse of the economy of the West meant that skilled workers departed for the East.
• Even had the new barbarian rulers an interest in preserving city life, there were no longer the technical skills to do so. The West simply ran down through neglect.
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End of the Classical Era
• The Barbarians who came to settle in what had been the Western Roman Empire brought their own artistic traditions with them.
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Dark Ages?• The dark ages were not so dark as
many imagine them.
• Classical culture lived on and classical art was much valued, even by Rome’s barbarian conquerors.
• However, trade and the organization needed to maintain a civilized, urban, culture collapsed.
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Dark Ages?
• There was no sudden disappearance of Classical forms – just a fading out of the Classical World as the barbarians took over.
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Barbarians – Warrior’s Boar Helmet
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Barbarians – Warriors With Boar Helmets
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Barbarians & the So-Called Dark Ages
• Barbarian art differed from Classical art in many ways.
• First and foremost, it reflected pagan, and often animist traditions.
• Nature deities replaced man and God as the measure of all things.
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Barbarians & the So-Called Dark Ages • Abstract and
organic shapes were merged in highly original designs.
• Art objects tended to be portable, since the Germanic tribes were mobile.
Tara Brooch (Celtic)
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Celtic/Germanic Art
• Most such art existed in small, portable, forms.– Jewelry
– Textiles
– Weaponry
Purse Cover from the Sutton Hoo Treasure
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Celtic/Germanic Art
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Celtic/Germanic Art - Viking Jewelery
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Celtic/Germanic Art
• Naturally textiles and wood have mostly been lost.
• Some Norse artifacts, which are culturally similar, but from a later period, do survive.
Wooden Prow of a Viking Longship
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Celtic/Germanic Art
• Long lasting work in metal does survive and provides evidence of a rich artistic tradition.
Gundestrup Cauldron – beaten our of 10 kg. Of silver
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Celtic/Germanic Art• Much surviving
craftsmanship consists of weaponry.
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Celtic/Germanic Art
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Celtic/Germanic Art – Saxon Literature -- Beowulf
• In a word where literacy was limited to the clergy alone, an oral tradition was vital.
• Poet-singers, called troubadours, trouveres or minnesanger, told or sang stories and perpetuated legends.
• One such legend was Beowulf.
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Celtic/Germanic Art; Anglo – Saxon Literature --Beowulf
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• Between the 5th and 9th centuries a fusion of the Classical and Germanic worlds would take place.
• The catalyst for this change was the Roman Catholic Church.
Christianity
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Christianity
• The advance of Christianity in the Barbarian West is the most significant development of the early Middle Ages.
• Missionaries and monks from Ireland in the North-West and from Rome eventually Christianized all of Western Europe.
• Their monopoly of literacy and learning made them invaluable to Kings and powerful rulers.
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Monasticism– As towns fell into disrepair, small,
often remote, monastic communities preserved what they valued of the classical world, including literacy and some technology.
– The chief strength of the Church was that it preserved learning in the West. Kings and chiefs needed the skills that only the clergy possessed
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Monasticism• From their
fortress-like communities, monks laboriously copied manuscripts, worked and prayed.
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Christian Influence
• The fusion of Christian and Celtic-Germanic styles is seen in Irish and Scottish stone crosses.
Monasterboice Cross
Moone Cross
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Early Medieval Illumination
• The Christian influence is also particularly apparent in manuscript illuminations, the work of Irish monks.
Illumination of a page from the Book of Kells
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Early Medieval Illumination
Gospel of Luke
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Early Medieval Illumination
Halberstadt Gospels
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Early Medieval Illumination
Lindisfarne Gospels
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Early Medieval Illumination
Book of Kells Lindisfarne Gospels
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Early Medieval Illumination
• In this early art, man becomes a stylized and unrealistic image.
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The Carolingian Renaissance• The so-called Carolingian
Renaissance was short-lived.
• Art and learning were encouraged and the great king nearly restored order to Europe.
• Unfortunately his successors were less capable and outside invasions destroyed his empire’s unity.
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The Carolingian Renaissance
Light Green areas inherited by Charlemagne
Dark Green areas added by the time of his death
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The Carolingian Renaissance
Charlemagne Coin
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The Carolingian Renaissance
The Supposed Sword of Charlemagne
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Carolingian Texts
Codex Aureus
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Carolingian Texts
St. Gall Gospel
Back Cover
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The Carolingian Renaissance
• Charlemagne encouraged learning and literacy.
• Monks copied and created illuminated works of great beauty, such as Ebbo’s Gospel Book.
St. Mathew’s Gospel
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Carolingian Texts
Charlemagne’s Gospel of St. Mark
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The Carolingian Renaissance
• An important development in Carolingian scriptoria was the invention of a new kind of writing – Carolingian miniscule – which used both upper and lower case letters.
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The Carolingian Renaissance
From the Stuttgart Psalter
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The Carolingian Renaissance
• Wonderful work in metal and crystal adorned abbeys and palaces.
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The Carolingian RenaissanceReliquaries
Supposed True Cross Reliquary
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The Carolingian RenaissanceReliquaries
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The Carolingian Renaissance
Ivory Dyptich
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The Carolingian RenaissancePortable Art
A Carolingian Purse
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The Carolingian Renaissance
• Few mosaics survive, but they were important and likely reflect links to the Byzantine Empire
Ceiling of Charlemagne’s Palatine Chapel, Aachen
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The Carolingian RenaissanceFresco
St. Rabanus
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The Carolingian Renaissance
• In politics, Charlemagne linked the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds.
• They were now also linked politically.
• Classical realism reappear, somewhat.
• It is also linked with Byzantine symbolism and Germanic decoration.
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End of the Carolingian Renaissance
• Charlemagne’s death left the empire in weaker hands.
• By the treaty of Verdun, the Frankish Empire was divided among his grandsons.
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End of the Carolingian Renaissance
• Outsiders also threatened the empire.
• From the North came the Vikings.
• From the East came the Magyars.
• From the South came the Moslems
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Ottonian Art
• The advances of the Carolingian Renaissance were not completely lost, however.
• Otto I established a line of Saxon kings that gained control over most of Italy and present-day Germany
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Ottonian Art
• Otto II married a Byzantine princess, strengthening ties between East and West and bringing Byzantine artists into his Holy Roman Empire.
Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, Note the similarity of this
picture with Byzantine portraiture
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Ottonian Art
• Around 870 AD, master craftsmen created an opulent image of the crucifixion on the cover of the Lindau Gospels.
• No attempt was made to present the scene realistically.
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Ottonian art
• This may be a crucifixion, but the figure on the cross is very much alive.
• He does not suffer in the least.
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Ottonian Art• Only a century later there is
an entirely new depiction of the same scene.
• Christ’s agonized portrayal in the Gero Crucifix, though not wholly realistic, is an entirely compassionate portrayal.
• It also marks the reappearance of monumental sculpture
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Ottonian Art
• The Gero image pulls on the heart-strings of the observer.
• Muscles strain.• The body is contorted.• Christ suffers – and,
he suffers for man.
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