The Pelican History of ArtThis book deals with the art of church treasuries and cloisters in the early middle ages in Europe - the work of goldsmiths, ivory carvers, bronze casters, enamellers and wood carvers. These so-called 'Minor Arts' played a major creative role alongside the other pictorial arts and architectural sculpture. The book traces the unbroken development of the Sacred Arts and their interrelationships throughout Europe from the Renovatio of the arts - the 'Rebirth of Antiquity' - encouraged under the Emperor Charlemagne in the late eighth century, until a renewed and fresh appreciation of the natural world - the Gothic - began to replace the powerful stylisations and the last vestiges of the classical tradition of the Romanesque in the early thirteenth century. |
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Aachen abbey Abbot altar cross antependium Apostles arcade Berlin Bernward Bishop book-cover British Museum Bronze gilt Byzantine Byzantine art Carolingian casket Cathedral centre champlevé Chapter Charlemagne Charles the Bald Christ in Majesty church cloisonné Codex Cologne Court School cover Crucifixion decorative drapery drawing earlier Eilbertus Elbern eleventh century Emperor enamels engraved filigree foliate scrolls frame front frontal gems gold Goldschmidt goldsmiths Gospels heads Helmarshausen Hildesheim Hildesheim Cathedral Ibid iconography imperial inscription Ivory panel Kunst later London Lower Saxony manuscript Metz Milan Mosan mounted Munich Mütherich 1962 Nicholas of Verdun niello originally Otto Otto III Ottonian Paris patterns pearls pieces plaques Plate portable altar probably Psalter Reims reliquary Remaclus retable Roger of Helmarshausen Romanesque saints scenes Schnitzler Schramm and Mütherich shrine of St side silver St John Stavelot Steenbock 1965 survived Swarzenski tenth century Theophanu tradition Treasury Trier twelfth century Virgin workshop