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Die Geburt Europas (Kunst im Bild) [Gebundene Ausgabe] by Magnus Backes; Regi...
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Published January 1, 1980
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January 23, 2022
Like a walk through an European art history museum covering the 6th to the 11th century, only without the text panels that give the broader context. Made it a little hard to extract much from as a total ignoramos.
- I'd guess that maybe 70-80% of the depicted art involved Jesus or in a few cases Adam and Eve. I wonder if this is representative of the time, or maybe a selection bias where the dominant culture would not take care or even get rid of "unaligned" art?
- Some work is pretty impressive, e.g. the very finely crafted ivory book covers, the churches that survived, and where did they get the tonnes of jewels from that plaster their crowns and crosses and brooches? Some other work looks a little bit like something my classmates could've painted in elementary.
- The book sometimes mentions/speculates influences from different cultures, which I liked (e.g. natural plant patterns and expressive animal faces from Scandinavian regions or Egyptian-ish horns with elephants that pop up in the regions of todays Germany)
- I'd guess that maybe 70-80% of the depicted art involved Jesus or in a few cases Adam and Eve. I wonder if this is representative of the time, or maybe a selection bias where the dominant culture would not take care or even get rid of "unaligned" art?
- Some work is pretty impressive, e.g. the very finely crafted ivory book covers, the churches that survived, and where did they get the tonnes of jewels from that plaster their crowns and crosses and brooches? Some other work looks a little bit like something my classmates could've painted in elementary.
- The book sometimes mentions/speculates influences from different cultures, which I liked (e.g. natural plant patterns and expressive animal faces from Scandinavian regions or Egyptian-ish horns with elephants that pop up in the regions of todays Germany)
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