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The first millennium saw a rich and distinctive artistic tradition form in Europe. While books had long been central to the Christian religious tradition, education, and culture, they now became an important artistic medium, sometimes decorated with brilliant colours and precious metals. Lawrence Nees explores issues of artist patronage, craftsmanship, holy men and women, monasteries, secular courts, and the expressive and educational roles of artistic creation. He discusses early Christian art within the late Roman tradition, and the arts of the newly established kingdoms of northern Europe not as opposites, but as different aspects of a larger historical situation. This approach reveals the onset of an exciting new visual relationship between the church and the populace throughout medieval Europe, restoring a previously marginalized subject to a central status in our artistic and cultural heritage.

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Book category Books in English The arts History of art / art & design styles History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400

• Full title: Early Medieval Art
• Author: Lawrence Nees
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780192842435
• ISBN: 0192842439
• ID: 04030215
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 646 g
• Dimensions: 237 × 166 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. April 2002

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