MEDIEVAL ART PERIODIZATION Early Christian art

MEDIEVAL ART

PERIODIZATION • Early Christian art • Byzantine art • Migration period art • Merovingian art • Carolingian Renaissance • Insular art • Pre-Romanesque and Romanesque art • Gothic art

MEDIA • Fresco wall-paintings • Metalwork • Woodcarving • Mosaics • Stained-glass • Jewelry • Tapestries • Illuminated manuscripts • Architecture

SOURCES • Roman heritage • Iconographic tradition of Early Christian art • ‘Barbaric’ artistic culture of Northern Europe

THE FALL OF THE WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE (476 AD) • Over-expanding and military overspending • Government corruption and political instability • Economic troubles and overreliance on slave labour • Christianity and the loss of traditional values • The division and the rise of the Eastern Empire • The arrival of the Huns and the migration of the Barbarians tribes

EARLY CHRISTIAN ART

EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE > BYZANTIUM

AFTER THE FALL OF THE WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE • Trade disrupted • No roads: unsafe to travel • Money is scarce • Downfall of cities; population shifts from urban areas • Different social values and practices • Decline of learning > Clergy maintained literacy • Loss of a common language : Latin changed; local vernaculars with German elements develop

MIGRATION OF THE “BARBARIANS”

MIGRATION PERIOD ART

VIKING SHIP

MEROVINGIAN KINGDOM

CHARLEMAGNE IS CROWNED, 800

PATRONAGE OF MANUSCRIPT PRODUCTION

MANUFACTURE OF A MANUSCRIPT • Scroll • Codex

PREPARATION OF PARCHMENT

WULFILA BIBLE, CODEX ARGENTEUS

MINIATURE – MINIUM (RED LEAD)

DROLLERIES

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