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Pre-Romanesque art

Western European art from either the emergence of the Merovingian kingdom in about 500 or from the Carolingian Renaissance in the late 8th century, to the early 11th century Romanesque period. The term is generally used for monumental sculpture and architecture containing both Roman and Byzantine elements from the 11th and 12th centuries with massive walls, round arches, and relatively simple ornamentation.

In the outline of Medieval art Pre-Romanesque art was preceded by the Migration Period art of the "barbarians": Hiberno-Saxon peoples in the British Isles and predominantly Merovingian on the Continent. In the Pre-Romanesque period the introduction and absorption of classical Mediterranean and Christian forms with Germanic ones lead to the rise of Romanesque art in the 11th century.

In this period numerous short-lived states emerged while the nobles struggled with each other for territory and power. At the same time Western Europe saw the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula and Southern Italy, Viking raids in the British isles and western France, and Magyar invasions in Central Europe.

Carolingian art is the roughly 120 year period from about 780 to 900 AD, during Charlemagne's and his immediate heirs rule, popularly known as the Carolingian Renaissance. Northern European kings promoted classical Mediterranean Roman art forms for the first time, while also creating innovative new forms such as naturalistic figure line drawings that would have lasting influence.

German pre-Romanesque art during the 120-year period from 936 to 1056 is commonly called Ottonian art after the three Saxon emperors named Otto who ruled the re-established Holy Roman Empire. From this emerged a renewed faith in the idea of Empire and a reformed Church, creating an atmosphere of heightened cultural and artistic fervour where in masterpieces were created that fused Late Antique, Carolingian, and Byzantine styles. Much Ottonian artists reflected the dynasty's desire to establish visually a link to the Christian rulers of Late Antiquity as well as to their Carolingian predecessors, particularly Charlemagne.
Ottonian monasteries sponsored from emperors and bishops, having the best in equipment and talent available, produced some of the most magnificent medieval illuminated manuscripts.

Anglo-Saxon art covers the period from the time of King Alfred (885), with the revival of English culture after the end of the Viking raids, to the early 12th century, when Romanesque art became the new movement. Prior to King Alfred there had been the Hiberno-Saxon culture, producing in Insular art the fusion of Anglo-Saxon and Celtic techniques and motifs. Anglo-Saxon art is mainly known today through illuminated manuscripts and metalwork.

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