A Greco-Italian School of Illuminators and Fresco Painters
Dimitri Tselos
COMMENTING on the unity of “pictorial” style painting which characterized Carolingian manuscripts Aachen-Reims school, late Adolph Goldschmidt, as early 1928, made a cautious but prophetic statement.1 After pointing to importance products that school for subsequent development German and Franco-Belgian works, he estimated character sources follows: “In first place we have secular character, dealing with astronomy, natural science, medicine, where illuminations are derived from same by their contents also point classical source. It is possible reckon Greek Renaissance movement after Iconoclastic storm, it quite conceivable models Gospels at Vienna Aix-la-Chapelle originated in milieu, which, approaching antique, had reappeared all probability soon towards end eighth century, if indeed, not survived Early Christian period, appears probable indications Santa Maria Antiqua Rome.”
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