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Prerromanesque Art - 5 Carolingian Art

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Fifth video about the Prerromanesque Art serie. Any doubt? Send me a message. Land of the Art blog: http://landoftheart.blogspot.com.es/ Land of the Art in facebook: https://www.facebook.com/landoftheart The Prerromanesque period, which extends between the V century to XI century, is considered divided into two periods. The first corresponds to the VIII century, bounded by the Moslem invasion and the beginning of the reign of Charlemagne. This is the art of the barbarians established in the western provinces of the Roman Empire. The second period is started in France with the Carolingian Renaissance, which links to the first Romanesque art in Catalonia, France and Italy, and the art of the Asturian kingdom in Castile. Renovatio Imperi. When Charlemagne is crowned in year 800, his main ambition is to renovate the Roman Empire. Imperator Romanorum. He is the emperor of the romans. Islam is a menace. The carolingian renaissance refers to renovation in art and culture, renovation of the antiquity. ç Charlemagne built his capital city in Aachen. He want to create a royal court like Constantinople. Imitatio Imperi. In south is the Asembly and in north is the Palatine Chapel, built similar to the celestial Jerusalem, that is actually the Aachen Cathedral. In this chapel is the throne of Charlemagne. He even build thermal baths, as remembrance of the Roman Empire. The Crisotriclinio is a lost building where the throne was in the center with the Pantokrator, stablishing so a relation between terrain-emperor and celestial-emperor. In the Palatine Chapel is not so, the throne is in other place. About the other examples of churches I have put, I must say that the Church of Saint Gall represents the ideal of carolingian monastery, future Cluny. The Church of Fulda is the most important church of christianism in Central Germany in these times. The Church of Corvey stand out by its interior, very radiant and beautiful. Carolingian crypts are important due that there were made experiments for future romanesque buildings. Quadrangular and semisubterranean crypts. Under the presbytery. Stand out the Crypt of Saint-Germain of Auxerre. Sculpture is scarce, standing out the book covers and ivory plaques, like the cover of the Lorsch Gospels and the ivory plaque of Remy and Clovis. Miniatures are very important in the carolingian empire. There were some schools. The Palatine School of Aachen drawed the characters in architectonic backgrounds, standing out Godescalco Gospel and Ada Gospels. The Ebbon School represents character in nature and generally alone, standing out the Eddon Gospel. The Tours School stands out by bit colous, using gold and silver, as in the San Emerano of Ratisbona Gospel. The Workshop of Drogo de Metz is inspirated in mural decorations and roman mosaics, so, the characters are little and lot of vegetation, standing out the Sacramentarium of Drogo. The other artworks that appear are a image of the Lorsch Gospels, the cover of the Codex Aureus of San Emmeram, and the Lothair Crystal, a gem with the tale of Sussana. Music: Adam de la Halle - Le jeu de Robin et Marion Photos taken in Google images. No copyright infringement intended.