ART HIS 21 Lecture 9: Lecture 9
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8. 2 elevation of kingdom of the franks to the status of the empire, his model after constantine. Interest in byzantine monuments and plans; octagonal core; columns borrowed from ravenna; equestrian figure of charlemagne like that of theodoric. Aachen- german migration type forms; the cavities in the screens; inspired by enamel work from fibulae. Plans of st peters rome and st denis (dionysios), paris (apostolic founder of the church were valued); Notion of palaces- ingelheim: construction begins in 787. Charlemagne wanted his people to see him; in the style of aachen the interior of the reception hall would have looked like a hall with s description of what was on the wall. Ninus, cyrus, falaris statues positioned charlemagne within previous strong rulers in his hall (along with helenistic east and mythological past and strong well-known rulers of the east- shows interconnection of people, not isolated, global connection) Constructed for a friend of charlemagne and bishop theodolf.
