A book from this period includes an image of a crowd looking up at a floating lamb and has a cover on which a border of sapphires and emeralds surround four gold embossed scenes. A rare surviving meta
A book from this period includes an image of a crowd looking up at a floating lamb and has a cover on which a border of sapphires and emeralds surround four gold embossed scenes. A rare surviving metal statuette from this period depicts a king on horseback holding a sword and an orb. A miniature angel feeds words to a horn of ink held by frantic-looking Saint Matthew at his writing desk in an image rendered with vibrating lines in a characteristic image from this period's Ebbo Gospels. During this period, an architect adapted the octagonal structure of the Basilica of San Vitale, adding a monumental westwork entrance, for one building. Odo of Metz designed that building, the (*) Palace Chapel, during this period. Calligraphers from this period standardized the use of capital letters and spaces as part of its namesake miniscule script. For 10 points, name this period of medieval artistic renaissance, named for an emperor who ruled from Aachen.
A book from this period includes an image of a crowd looking up at a floating lamb and has a cover on which a border of sapphires and emeralds surround four gold embossed scenes.
Carolingian Renaissance (The first clue describes the Codex Aureus of St. Emmeram.)