late antique

Examples of late antique in the following topics:

• Sculpture during the Decline of the Roman Empire

  • Sculpture during this period demonstrates the style and design of Late Antique art that was initially developed during the late second century CE from plebeian models.
  • From the late second century, Roman art increasingly depicted battles as chaotic, packed, single-plane scenes emphasizing dehumanized barbarians subjected mercilessly to Roman military might, at a time when in fact the Roman Empire was undergoing constant invasions from external threats that led to the fall of the empire in the West.

• Carolingian Metalwork in the Early European Middle Ages

  • Metalwork subjects were often narrative religious scenes in vertical sections, largely derived from Late Antique paintings and carvings, as were those with more hieratic images derived from consular diptychs and other imperial art, such as the front and back covers of the Lorsch Gospels.
  • Another work associated with the Palace School is the frame of an antique serpentine dish, now located in the Louvre.

• Dura-Europos

  • During the late second century BC it came under Parthian control and in the first century BC, it served as a frontier fortress of the Arsacid Parthian Empire.
  • When Christianity emerged in the late antique world, Christian ceremony and worship was much more private—even secretive—than it would become in the later Medieval periods.
  • Rather than building prominent new structures for express religious use, Christians in the late antique world took advantage of pre-existing, private structures—houses.

• Imperial Sculpture under the Tetrarchy

  • Stylistically, this portrait of the Tetrarchs is done in Late Antique style, which uses a distinct squat, formless bodies, square heads, and stylized clothing clearly seen in all four men.
  • These attributes follow those of other sculptures of the Late Antique style and foreshadow the increasingly geometric form that facial features would assume in imperial portraiture and sculpture in general.

• Diocletian's Palace

  • Despite increasing abstraction in Late Antique sculpture, Diocletian's Palace maintains the tradition of Classicism in Roman architecture.

• Architecture under Constantine

  • The rest of the arch is decorated using Late Antique styles.
  • The proximity of different artistic styles, under four different emperors, highlights the stylistic variations and artistic development that occurred, both in the second century CE, as well as their differences to the Late Antique style.
  • Unlike previous examples of Late Antique art, the bodies in this frieze are completely schematic and defined only by stiff, rigid clothes.

• Architecture under the Merovingians

  • On the other hand, gold work and the new medium of manuscript illumination integrated "barbarian" animal-style decoration, with Late Antique motifs, and other contributions from as far as Syria fused into the Merovingian artistic legacy.
  • The Sacramentarium Gelasianum features geometric and animal decoration, less complex than that of the Insular art of the British Isles, but similarly derived from metalwork motifs, with some influence from Late Antiquity and the Near East .

• Productivity Gains from Technology

  • Productivity improving technologies date back to antiquity, and have accelerated greatly of late.
  • Technologies that improve productivity date back to antiquity, with rather slow progress until the late Middle Ages.
  • However, technological and economic progress did not proceed at a significant rate until the English Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century, and even then productivity grew about 0.5% annually.
  • High productivity growth began during the late 19th century in what is sometimes called the Second Industrial Revolution.

• Renaissance Architecture

  • During the High Renaissance, architectural concepts derived from classical antiquity were developed and used with greater surety.
  • During the High Renaissance, architectural concepts derived from classical antiquity were developed and used with greater surety.
  • In the late 15th century and early 16th century architects such as Bramante, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, and others showed a mastery of the revived style and ability to apply it to buildings such as churches and city palazzos, which were quite different from the structures of ancient times.

• Architecture of the Holy Roman Empire

  • The Pre-Romanesque period in Western European art is often dated from the Carolingian Renaissance in the late 8th century to the beginning of the 11th century Romanesque period.
  • Gothic architecture flourished during the high and late medieval period, evolving from Romanesque architecture.
  • As in other areas of Europe, Renaissance architecture in the Holy Roman Empire placed emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry, and the regularity of parts as they are demonstrated in the architecture of classical antiquity and, in particular, ancient Roman architecture.
  • Rococo is the late phase of the Baroque, in which the decoration became even more abundant and showed most colors in even brighter tones.
  • It drew inspiration from the classical architecture of antiquity and was a reaction against the Baroque style, in both architecture and landscape design.