Between to
the 6th to the 11th centuries AC. Is called The Dark
Ages. In this time, Art was alive mainly
in the monasteries. In the 5th century AD. barbarian tribes from
northern and central Europe wandered over the continent.
These people
produced very strong pattern on his art. They were dabbler in designs of
dragons and birds.
The best of Celtic and
Saxon art is found in manuscripts of the 7th and 8th centuries. Book
illumination and miniature painting, practiced since late Roman times,
increased in the middle Ages.
Gold, silver and bright colors were
used. Very
little wall painting survives from the middle Ages. There were several great
series of frescoes painted in churches built during the Romanesque period
(11th-13th centuries). But most of them have disappeared.
A
page from an Italian manuscript shows elaborately decorated initials and a
finely detailed marginal scene of Saint George slaying the dragon. The colors
are brilliant and jewel-like, as in stained glass, and gold shimmers over the
page. . Artists probably used magnifying glasses to do
such intricate work.
-Elena Gutierrez
From
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/file:Codex_Aureus_Sankt_Emmeram.jpg
File:Wilton diptych.jpg
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