Word: carolingian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carolingian Central Institutions," Professor Taylor, Sever...
...Carolingian Central Institutions," Professor Taylor, Sever...
...term "Christian Art" was first used by Alexis Rio in the nineteenth century to denote all art manifestations in Christendom from early times to our own; the term "Early Christian Art" is reserved for art in the western Christian countries down to the Carolingian period, after which the Romanesque wave swept over Europe. In his study of early Christian architecture, therefore, Professor Conant will take the vagabond who chooses Robinson Hall to Rome and Ravenna, where the chief monuments of the period survive...
...hour, however, will make up for it. I am going to hear Professor Haskins lecture in History 8, the history of France to 1469. This morning at 11 o'clock he will discuss the activity in arts and letters that occurred under Charlemagne, what is commonly known as the Carolingian Renaissance. It will be in the room directly in front of one as one enters Harvard Hall, the number of which I can never remember...
...Miller Collection are Roman and Byzantine diptychs, Carolingian and Romanesque book covers and casket panels, and Gothic utensils, both ecclesiastical and secular. Specimens of this class go back as far as the fourth century, from which is the consular diptych of Rufus Probianus. There are also diptychs of Flavius Asturius (fifth century), Areobindus (sixth century), the fifth century Byzantine diptych of an archangel in the British Museum, the front cover of the Psalter of Charles the Bald (ninth century), the South Kensington plate of Mary between Isaiah and Melchisedek (ninth century), a tenth century Holy Water vessel from Milan Cathedral...