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Comparative Advancing Art History     
 of Pigments and Mediums     
in European and Asian Cultures     

GERMANY

A.D. 960, OTTONIAN. The near end of this period comes with the "Ottonian golden century" 960-1060, under Otto the Great of Germany, painting pictures is resumed, icons on board, but the quality was dismal, Icons continued in Russia until 1600.

A.D. 1100, ROMANESQUE. Wall painting are the final stage of Antique art, the "Second Dark Age". The Early Middle Ages has already started. These frescoes were done in a crude cartoon style but lead the way toward the early Gothic paintings. Nowhere near what we left a thousand years previous. Giotto is really the first sunny day in 1300, Italy.

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