The Evangelist Portraits of the Ada School and Their Models
E. Rosenbaum
THE manuscripts of the so-called Ada School have never been treated separately as a group, though they are discussed in every work on Carolingian art or early mediaeval book illumination. Only one them has published whole—the Gospels Treves—from which group received name by it is commonly known.1 We still do not know where belonging to this school were written and illustrated;2 but generally agreed that scriptorium produced worked close connection with Charlemagne, manuscripts—all made during his lifetime—are among chief witnesses Charlemagne's efforts promote an equal “classical” art, reveal perhaps more their Mediterranean models than products any other school.
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