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Early Medieval art (Migration Period art)

Art of the Germanic peoples during the Migration period (ca. 300-900) from the Germanic tribes on the continent as well as the Insular art of the Anglo-Saxon and Celtic fusion in the British Isles.

In the 3rd century the Roman Empire almost collapsed and when in the 4th century Huns pushed German tribes westward, they spilled across the Christianized Empire's borders and began to settle there.

Migration Period art, also known as Barbarian art, developed into various schools, normally classified by region and covers many different styles, including the polychrome style originated from the Goths who had settled in the Black Sea area and the animal style that was found in Scandinavia, north Germany and England.

Barbarian artisans created elaborate weapons, ornate jewelry and beautiful cookware in a primitive minimalism style truth to nature, balanced unity and a precision for detail. The use of gold inlaid with precious stones in their crucifixes and miniature pagan gods imparted to the owners comfort and a sense of familiarity in an era of almost total illiteracy, diseases, and the ever present threat of starvation.

Periods:
* The Visigoths (1st-8th-centuries) moved from Italy to Spain, where their rich native jewellery traditions fused with Roman and Byzantine styles, to express a particularly devout form of Christianity, creating a distinctive stone sculpture.
* The Picts (mid 1st-9th-centuries)
* The Franks (400-750) occupied Gaul and western Germany, developing into the powerful Merovingian Empire, whose art synthesized a wide range of influences, Gallo-Roman, Byzantine, and even Coptic.
* The Vandals occupied North Africa, successfully assimilating late Roman art.
* Eastgothic art (500) and Westgothic art (600)
* The Burgundians (413-532)
* The Ostrogoths (ca. 488-526) occupied Italy, making Ravenna their capital; King Theodoric attempted to combine Byzantine and barbarian style, by regarding himself as a Roman emperor. Their richly decorated jewellery retained its oriental quality, exemplified in the Cesena Treasure (Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmus.), with the typical eagle brooch of the Gothic tribes, and other garnet cloisons decorating crosses.
* The Lombards (568-774)
* Anglo-Saxon art (5th-century-1066), Scandinavians such as the Angles, Saxons and Jutes invaded Britain
Finally there was Insular art or the Hiberno-Saxon style, a brief but prosperous period after Christianization that saw the fusion of animal style, Celtic, Mediterranean and other motifs and techniques. The Angles and Saxons settled in south and east Britain, applying many of their jewellery designs and distinctive animal patterns to the ornament of Christian manuscripts and metalwork.

After the Early Medieval art continent-wide styles of Romanesque art and finally Gothic art developed.

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