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   Dec 6, 2023 · Ottonian art takes a number of traditional medieval forms, including elegantly illuminated manuscripts, lavish metalwork, intricate carving, and Romanesque churches and cathedrals. Perhaps the most famous of the Ottonian artistic innovations is the Saxon Romanesque architecture style, which is marked by a careful attention to balance and ...

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   Perhaps the most famous of the Ottonian artistic innovations is the Saxon Romanesque architecture style, which is marked by a careful attention to balance and mathematical harmony. This focus on geometry is based on the texts de Arithmatica and Ars Geometriae by the 6th century philosopher Boethius.

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   What is the difference between Ottonian and Romanesque art?

   • In the traditional scheme of art history, Ottonian art follows Carolingian art and precedes Romanesque art, though the transitions at both ends of the period are gradual rather than sudden.

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   What distinguishes Romanesque architecture from Carolingian and Ottonian architecture?

   • This compartmentalization was an essential characteristic that distinguishes Romanesque architecture from its Carolingian and Ottonian predecessors. Two-headed Janus, who sees forward and backward, a personification of the month of January; Romanesque high-relief stone sculpture, in the Museo del Duomo, Ferrara, Italy.

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   What is Romanesque art?

   • The term “Romanesque,” meaning in the manner of the Romans, was first coined in the early nineteenth century. Today it is used to refer to the period of European art from the second half of the eleventh century throughout the twelfth (with the exception of the region around Paris where the Gothic style emerged in the mid-twelfth century).

   Smarthistory – A beginner’s guide to Romanesque art

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   When did the Romanesque style start?

   • The Romanesque was at its height between 1075 and 1125 in France, Italy, Britain, and the German lands. The name Romanesque refers to the fusion of Roman, Carolingian and Ottonian, Byzantine, and local Germanic traditions that make up the mature style.

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   Ottonian art is a style in pre-romanesque German art, covering also some works from the Low Countries, northern Italy and eastern France. It was named by the art historian Hubert Janitschek after the Ottonian dynasty which ruled Germany and Northern Italy between 919 and 1024 under the kings Henry I , Otto I , Otto II , Otto III and Henry II . [1]

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   • The first international style since antiquity. The term “Romanesque,” meaning in the manner of the Romans, was first coined in the early nineteenth century.
   • Painting + sculpture + architecture. Master of Taüll, apse painting, San Clemente in Taüll, c. 1123 (Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya – MNAC, Barcelona)
   • The influence of ancient Rome. Calling of St. Peter and St. Andrew, c. 1160, Sant Pere de Rodes monstery, Spain. One influence on the Romanesque is, as the name implies, ancient Roman art—especially sculpture—which survived in large quantities particularly in southern Europe.
   • Metalwork. Stavelot Triptych, c. 1156-8, gold and enamel, 48 x 66 cm open (The Morgan Library and Museum) The distinction between the fine and decorative arts is one that emerges only in the Renaissance and does not apply at this earlier period.

6. www.britannica.com › art › Western-architectureWestern architecture - Ottonian, Romanesque, Gothic | Britannica

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   Western architecture - Ottonian, Romanesque, Gothic: Ottonian art is the official art of the realm in the epoch of the Saxon, or Ottonian, emperors and of their first successors from the Salian house. Its centre was Saxony, birthplace of the Ottonians, but its influence extended over the whole realm, with the exception of Italy. Ottonian art was shaped by the Carolingian tradition, by early ...

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   art. Ottonian art, painting, sculpture, and other visual arts produced during the reigns of the German Ottonian emperors and their first successors from the Salic house (950–1050). As inheritors of the Carolingian tradition of the Holy Roman Empire, the German emperors also assumed the Carolingian artistic heritage, the conscientious revival ...

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   The Romanesque was at its height between 1075 and 1125 in France, Italy, Britain, and the German lands. The name Romanesque refers to the fusion of Roman, Carolingian and Ottonian, Byzantine , and local Germanic traditions that make up the mature style.