A History of European Art

John Beckwith, Early Medieval Art: Carolingian, Ottonian, Romanesque.

Lawrence Nees, Early Medieval Art.

1. What function did narrative art serve, whether religious or secular, in
   the early Middle Ages?


2. What similarities and differences can you identify in the architecture
   and decoration of the Byzantine Church of S. Vitale and Charlemagne’s
   Palatine Chapel?

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