Early Medieval Art (Oxford History of Art)

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Within the first millennium, a wealthy and distinctive artistic tradition emerged in Europe. Early Medieval Art explores this custom and tracks its development from c. 300 AD through c. 1000 AD, revealing sorts of artistic expression ranging from brilliant illuminated manuscripts to decorative chairs, wealthy embroidery, and precious metalwork.

Nees explores issues of artist patronage, craftsmanship, holy women and men, monasteries, secular courts, and the expressive and educational roles of artistic creation. As an alternative of treating early Christian art Within the late Roman tradition and the arts of the newly established kingdoms of northern Europe as opposites, he adopts a more holistic view, treating them as different aspects of a bigger historical situation. This approach reveals the onset of an exciting new visual relationship between the church and the populace during medieval Europe. Additionally, it restores a up to now marginalized subject to a central status in our artistic and cultural heritage.

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