Charlemagne as a Patron of Art
Henry Mayr‐Harting
The lesson that people hold radically differing views about church art is the harder to learn when one comes it from iconodul-istic side. Looking back on my own Roman Catholic schooling, and place of statues holy pictures in religious devotions milieu, I realize once sacramental awareness develops, not always easily confined matter theological sacraments themselves. beheading Lady Chapel at Ely, which visited age eleven, seemed a shocking circumstance whose motivation was totally incomprehensible, even allowing for fact work Protestants, Old Testament, might have brought dawn understanding, was, course, no part an ordinary education time. In short, author Charlemagne’s Libri Carolini would found much upon make adverse comment me, fellows, monks who taught us. With first artistic love student days, Romanesque sculpture, came voices practice those great medieval Cistercians. But only later encounter with Charlemagne forced listen seriously moral arguments against unbridled use figurai service Church.
Studies in Church History