{Carolingian Art}[23rd February 1991]

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‘The Carolingian achievement as a whole was of the greatest importance to the civilisation of Northern Europe. The long established predominance of the Mediterranean tradition was finally broken, not by any fundamentally opposed aesthetic but more by the absorption of its humanist tradition. Throughout the Middle Ages, from the 9^th century onwards, whatever influence the Classical tradition was to have on the art of the West, be it in its antique, its early Christian, or in [sic] its Byzantine guise, it has always to be qualified by what might be called an indigenous northern classicism created by Carolingian artists.’

– E[ncylopaedia of] V[isual] A[rt] 3:544

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