On the Classicism of the “Classic” Phase of Franco-Saxon Manuscript Illumination
Jacques Guilmain
The reintroduction of classical forms and their early Christian variants into the vocabulary artists during Carolingian period has been great interest to scholars. Symptomatic revival in manuscript illumination is appearance a kind Hellenistic-Roman illusionism treatment human figure, backgrounds, landscapes; substitution for geometric zoomorphic ornament associated with Merovingian Insular art plant ornament, particularly acanthus motif; use certain types classically derived architectural motifs. Most significant some scholars renewed iconographic tradition mythology, which reflected paintings works.1
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