Friday, February 29, 2008

Week 9 Blog: Question 2, Medieval Art

Describe Charlemagne's contributions to art, architecture and education.
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5 comments:

mattyw said...

Coming from Rome, Charlemagne stopped in Ravenna where the Byzantine emperors built large stone buildings with gloriously colorful mosaics. San Vitale impressed him and on returning to France he decided to have his architect, Odo of Metz, build a replica of it as his palace chapel. The chapel still stands. But it is the magnificent illuminated manuscripts (many of them lavishly bound with ivory, gold and jewels) which he commissioned that were his greatest cultural contribution. Trying to gather the best scholars in Europe at his court in hopes of turning Aachen into an educational metropolis, Alcuin worked with Charlemagne to develop the Palace School, a place where people from all walks of life could receive excellent education.

March 6, 2008 at 10:56 AM
F00D4TeHG0Dz said...

Charlemagne was so upset about education, that he called in foreign scholars to restore the schools of France. One man was Paul the Deacon from Monte Cassino, and another named Alcuin from York, to teach school. Alcuin was a Saxon, and educated in the cathedral school that a Bishop named Egbert had founded. Alucuin ended up sending out to england a search for teachers and books, for charlemagnes school.

March 6, 2008 at 10:46 PM
Kelly said...

Carolingian architecture and art art forms and structures created by the Carolingians . Toward the beginning of the Carolingian Period, in the 8th cent., a gradual change appeared in Western culture and art, a change that later reached its apex under Charlemagne. The new architecture, inspired by the forms of antiquity, abandoned the small boxlike shapes of the Merovingian period and used instead spacious basilicas often intersected by vast transepts.

March 7, 2008 at 8:44 AM
Fire Lord said...

Charlemagne is consideres the first great man of action to emerge from the darkness since the collapse of the Roman world. His most important work was the chapel in Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) and the re-establishment of contact with the ancient culture of the Mediterranean world.

March 7, 2008 at 2:57 PM
SWuertz said...

as i am late in posting this it is hard to come up with new information. Charlemagne was upset with how the world was un educated, and he deemed it his responsibility to start educatging his fellow man for a better future. Not only did he enforce his new polocy, he himself began to learn how to read and write, even though that wasnt required of a king at the time.

March 14, 2008 at 2:14 PM

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