The Forgotten Early Medieval Artist
Jaques Guilmain
Through its often impeccably precise and scientifically objective methodology, art history has immensely enriched our knowledge of past cultures man, the creator. But perhaps precisely because world historian is a well-ordered one, image artist which he created sometimes appears to be that well-behaved clerk carefully recording iconographic traditions, styles, social patterns, theories, trends in taste. Such an been too fate early Medieval artist. He left us no biographies, theoretical treatises, critical works. The historian, forced work with objects alone, little or written collateral material, had provide hypothetical set attitudes. However, using these as basis for systematic analysis given problem may have occasionally led scholar compound confusion inherent certain questions were already more than sufficiently complex begin with. point I wish make here reliance on such attitudes analytical tool useful only if it takes sympathetic view at least competent professional within context tradition, beyond imaginative creative man. It would obviously not possible deal this question whole short article, 1 will restrict myself few problems manuscript illumination.
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