Re: Art history

Paul Mesken wrote:
> On 1 Dec 2003 15:17:21 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clyde S. Dale)
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> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
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> > > But now I'm trying to remember if the Norwegian Stave Churches were part 
> > > of the Greek Orthodox influence?
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> > I thought the influence was Celtic? 
> > Now I did it - and have to go look up
> > who the Celts were influenced by. Groan!
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> Were the Vikings Celts? I thought only the Irish and some of the
> British were Celtic. At least their religions are different (Mother
> Godess Dana vs Odin/Wotan).
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> Of course if we're talking Stave Churches then we're already past the
> Germanic Gods (the Vikings were easy to convert, they believed the
> more Gods you worshipped, the better :-)
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> But they did travel a lot so I wouldn't be surprised if they were
> influenced by the Greeks.

Well yes - Harald Hardrade himself hung out in Constantinople for 14 
years around ad 1030 or so, and married Jarislov the Wise's daughter in 
a Orthodox ceremony in Kiev.  But I asked the question because I 
wondered if iconoclasm was behind the Stave Church carving style, and 
now I think it's not.  The two iconoclast periods were 730 and 815, a 
bit early for the Stave Churches.

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