10th Century
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10th Century

Medieval art in Europe grew out of the artistic heritage of theĀ Roman EmpireĀ and theĀ iconographic traditionsĀ of theĀ early Christian church. These sources were mixed with the vigorous "barbarian" artistic culture of Northern Europe to produce a remarkable artistic legacy. Indeed, the history of medieval art can be seen as the history of the interplay between the elements ofĀ classical, early Christian and "barbarian" art.[2]Ā Apart from the formal aspects of classicism, there was a continuous tradition of realistic depiction of objects that survived in Byzantine art throughout the period, while in the West it appears intermittently, combining and sometimes competing with new expressionist possibilities developed in Western Europe and the Northern legacy of energetic decorative elements. The period ended with the self-perceivedĀ RenaissanceĀ recovery of the skills and values of classical art, and the artistic legacy of theĀ Middle AgesĀ was thenĀ disparagedĀ for some centuries. Since a revival of interest and understanding in the 19th century it has been seen as a period of enormous achievement that underlies the development of later Western art.
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