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 sylistic 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.
- ISBN10 1871569117
- ISBN13 9781871569117
- Publish Date 1 April 1990 (first published 25 July 1974)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 June 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Herbert Press Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 192
- Language English