Art of the Early Middle Ages

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Rick Steves’ Europe Season 12 showcases Europe’s great art and architecture. © 2024 | After Rome's fall, Europe's Christians kept culture alive with art rooted in their deep faith. We visit sturdy Romanesque churches filled with art that reinforced the ruling order. Meanwhile, Europe was invigorated from the fringes: Byzantines to the East, with their dazzling mosaics; Spanish Muslims with their lush palaces; and fierce Vikings of the North - all part of Europe's rich cultural stew. #ricksteveseurope #artofeurope #arthistory
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@romulusbuta9318 28 күн бұрын

2:12 The WESTERN Roman Empire.......The ESTERN Roman Empire STILL STANDING ☝️☝️☝️☝️💪

@sjorslindenbergh982 27 күн бұрын

Your videos are fantastic and so is your intro music. Always a delight!

@user-se7zm6wj5i 20 күн бұрын

Thank you for this excellent video about art in the Early Middle Ages!

@namrata7755 Ай бұрын

You are my all time favourite person and only one whom I have been following since 2020😊

@Aztec73 Ай бұрын

The art of the European middle ages is among my favorite.❤🎨🖼🎭😊 23:07

@paullewis2413 Ай бұрын

Good analogy between the Roman Empire and the Christian Church. Rick Steves got it right when he said the Senators became Bishops (or Cardinals) and the Emperor became the Pope. That is exactly the way the Roman Catholic Church evolved.

@llla_german_ewoklll6413 12 күн бұрын

The titles definitely followed in terms of structural roles, however, the way that they functioned were completely different. You can quote mine a video with a clear enlightenment philosophical leaning to suit your preconceived ideas about Catholicism, or you can actually research church history and see how the structure was the same before and after constantine. Any study of the Coptic, syrian, indian, or ethiopian churches would show that the roman church was apostolic and in line with the teachings of the apostles. I can give you a few resources to check out if you would like to study the history of the Catholic Church.

@shilpagadre2226 Ай бұрын

The old introductory music is back! ❤

@dedehook304 Ай бұрын

Thank Rick...❤

@dongmeili Ай бұрын

Very educational and informative! Thank you so much!

@briannat1086 20 күн бұрын

Greetings and hugs from near the Grand Canyon! Keep up you being you! Awesome shows you've done . So informative. Wish i had your itinerary!

@Cats2Fat Ай бұрын

Love the church of San Vitale in Ravenna.

@yehia4512 Күн бұрын

القارة العجوز ❤

@jonelbarruga3367 Ай бұрын

how I wish I could go around Europe 📿🙏😍 Watching here fr. the Philippines 🇵🇭

@AriannaAyers Ай бұрын

Good content, but it’s all recycled. Nothing new here. All old content, and I know, because I am a big Rick Steves fan.

@tabfir3f0xplox73 13 күн бұрын

Shut up

@zoltandobos1297 13 күн бұрын

I enjoyed the video a lot, but I cannot resist to make one comment: As far as I learned, Pontifex Maximus means "highest priest" which was not the "emperor" itself, but one of the old republic's titles that were concentrated in the emperor's hands. Several sovereigns claimed to be the heir to the Roman emperor, but the papal state was not one of them (quite the opposite, the pope's blessing legitimized these other monarchs). So I would say it is a false conclusion that the pope would be the legal successor of the Roman emperor.

@danfobb8301 8 сағат бұрын

great

@Beoa12 Ай бұрын

Demek Romalı senatörler kiliseye piskopos oldular?Gözlerim faltaşı gibi açıldı (!)Böyle güzel anlatımı hangi kitapta bulabilirdim bilmiyorum.thanks.

@llla_german_ewoklll6413 12 күн бұрын

That is enlightenment propaganda. Look at the coptic church, or the etheopian church, or the indian church, or the syrian church. All of these have the same structure of bishops and patriarch. Early christianity was not just recycled roman politics.

@nathanmagnuson2589 28 күн бұрын

Odd to say that the Roman Emperor was replaced by the Pope when all of the barbarian kingdoms of the early medieval period recognized the Byzantine Emperor as the Roman Emperor until Irene became empress and prompted Charlemagne's usurpation of the title in ~800

@fdgfhgfhjfghlkfghkl 10 күн бұрын

Very well done. Just there other art styles that can be called European that are earlier then the Romanesque. Like the Byzantaine, ancient claasical, Hellenistic style

@cristianjulianriccio268 Ай бұрын

you forgot the amazing uniqe byzantine chapel of Ravenna or the one in Paudua

@maily8388 Ай бұрын

Just visiting Byzantine recently, the Hagia Sophia was amazing, as well as basilica Cristin in Istanbul.

@Anil18834 Ай бұрын

The same can be said today: "Desperate erate for security, they bowed down to the local warlord, who was armed with a castle and knights, and backed by the church. The lord promised land and protection..." Anyone who can smell the fall of today's "Roman Empire "?

@jjns5600 23 күн бұрын

That's not at all accurate. Today, Western society and beyond aren't politically, economically and socially constrained by lifetime "caste" systems. Mobility is to be seen everywhere, quite honestly, as is the representation of all peoples in actively participating in global change. Of course the rigors of history to create this advancement always stems from repression and subjugation.

@edgarbergmann6581 13 күн бұрын

Correction: the horseshoe arches in Spanish architecture were originally Visigothic, appropriated by the moors, and then reappropriated by the Spanish after the Reconquista.

@AbdulAbdul-qp4yo Ай бұрын

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@RevantuZ 18 күн бұрын

7:42 what city is this? Excellent program, thank you!

@ricksteves 18 күн бұрын

That's the fortress city of Carcassonne, France!

@A-wk8jr Ай бұрын

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@gustavoscalabrin5028 11 күн бұрын

Sophisticated and Vikings in the same sentence is somehow funny. But they were indeed.

@RyanK-100 Ай бұрын

There are only two people I have met, where the image of them being excreted by ogres, brings me comfort. 🙂

@chewie1644 Ай бұрын

My sister-in-law! 😂

@ZerpDerp 18 күн бұрын

20:16

@sadiqhussain7254 Ай бұрын

❤ Mavelous speaking history appreciated your entire work good luck. PAKISTAN

@Pana-yc6bf Ай бұрын

After western* Rome fell. There is no “Byzantium” only the Eastern Roman Empire. Classic Western European disingenuousness to downplay the legacy of Constantinople

@paullewis2413 Ай бұрын

While this is often the case, I don’t think he downplayed the Eastern Empire at all. Whether you want to call this Byzantium or not is hardly relevant, what is important is recognising that Constantinople continued the Roman Empire of the East and was well ahead of Western Europe in culture and learning , a fact that was covered in this programme.

@fulippuannaghiti1965 11 күн бұрын

@@paullewis2413unfortunately if you visit Constantinople today it's quite hard to imagine it was one of the most magnificent city in the world and the capital of one of the most prosperous and enduring empire in history. The Turks literally destroyed the cultural heritage of that time, very little is left of the imperial city. I toured myself to most of the old churches now converted into mosques and hardly you can feel the grandiosity, and churches such as the one of the twelve apostles were demolished soon after the conquest.