Romanesque Art and Architecture  Pre-Romanesque art and
architecture  Pre-Romanesque art and architecture is the period
in Western European art from either the emergence of the
Merovingian kingdom in about 500 or from the Carolingian
Renaissance in the late 8th century, to the beginning of the
11th century Romanesque period. The term is generally used in
English only for architecture and monumental sculpture, but here
all the arts of the period are briefly described. The primary
theme during this period is the introduction and absorption of
classical Mediterranean and Christian forms with Germanic ones
creating innovative new forms, leading to the rise of Romanesque
art in the 11th century. In the outline of Medieval art it was
preceded by what is commonly called the Migration Period art of
the "barbarian" peoples: Hiberno-Saxon in the British Isles and
predominantly Merovingian on the Continent.  Imperial styles
Carolingian art  Carolingian art is the roughly 120 year period
from about 780 to 900 AD, during