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painting, sculpture, and other visual arts produced during the reigns of the German Ottonian emperors and their first successors from the Salic house (950–1050). As inheritors of the Carolingian tradition of the Holy Roman Empire, the German emperors also assumed the Carolingian artistic heritage, the conscientious revival of late antique and Early Christian art forms…

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>	Ottonian art painting, sculpture, and other visual arts produced during the reigns of the German Ottonian emperors and their first successors from the Salic house (950–1050). As inheritors of the Carolingian tradition of the Holy Roman Empire, the German emperors also assumed the Carolingian artistic heritage, the conscientious revival of late antique and Early Christian art forms ...
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>	Ottonian period from the architecture, Western article Ottonian art is the official art of the realm in the epoch of the Saxon, or Ottonian, emperors and of their first successors from the Salian house. Its centre was Saxony, birthplace of the Ottonians, but its influence extended over the whole realm, with the exception of Italy. Ottonian art was shaped by the Carolingian tradition, by early Christian art, and—because Otto ...
>	Ottonian Germany from the painting, Western article In Germany, now under the Saxon Ottonian dynasty, concerted royal and ecclesiastical patronage also brought about a great revival in the arts. As in England, this revival followed a reform movement that touched all the leading monastic communities and revitalized religious life throughout the land.
>	Carolingian and Ottonian periods from the Western sculpture article The cultural revival of the Carolingian period (768 to the late 9th century), stimulated by the academia palatina at Charlemagne's court, is the first phase of the pre-Romanesque culture, a phase in which late Classical and Byzantine elements amalgamated with ornamental designs brought from the East by the Germanic tribes. The German Ottonian and early Salian emperors ...
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