<p>Overview of Early Medieval Art and Its Role in Medieval Culture.</p>

Early Medieval Art

Ernst Kitzinger

Indiana University Press

<p>This classic introduction shows the evolution of art from the naturalism of the Classical age to the religious fervor of the Medieval era. Revised edition includes more than 60 color & b&w illus. of items from the British Museum & the British Library collections.</p>

Early Medieval Art - with Illustrations from the British Museum and British Library Collections

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

The central theme of this book is the unity of European artistic development from the breakup of the ancient world to the age of the great cathedrals. Illustrated with over 48 plates, reproducing photographs from the collection of early medieval art in the British Museum, it contains chapters on late antique, Early Christian, Carolingian, Byzantine, Ottonian, medieval Spanish and Italian, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth century art. According to the author, "...during the early Middle Ages, which are still often regarded merely as a hiatus, the entire foundations of European art were were changed and a new and great ideal found full expression..." In his critical survey, Mr. Kitzinger, a Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University, Busch-Reisinger Musueum, and formerly associated with the British Museum, described the way in which the propagandist art of the late Roman emperors and the symbolic language used in early Christian monuments led to the vivid narrative style of early Byzantine and Carolingian art, and eventually to the ecstatic expressionism of the Ottonian age.

Early Medieval Art with Illustrations From the BritishMuseum Collection

The description for this book, The Place of Book Illumination in Byzantine Art, will be forthcoming.

The Place of Book Illumination in Byzantine Art (Publications of the Art Museum, Princeton University, 7)

Kurt Weitzmann

William C. Loerke

Hugo Buchthal

Reference

Art Museum, Princeton University Press

Early Medieval  Art in the British Museum

British Museum Press

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