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Ottonian, a.|ɒˈtəʊnɪən| [ad. late L. Ottoniān-us, f. the name of Otto I (cf. Neronian a.): see -ian.] a. Of or pertaining to the East Frankish dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire founded by Otto I (912–73), which ruled from 962 to 1002. Also (rare) as n., a member of this dynasty. b. Pertaining to or characteristic of the art of this period, in part a revival of Carolingian art and extending into the 11th century.
1898H. Fisher Medieval Empire I. iii. 95 The dominion of the Ottonian house was one thing in Saxony and another thing outside the Saxon borders. 1928E. F. Jacob Holy Roman Empire v. 73 Yet the theory of the Empire reached its finest and truest form when the days of the Hohenstaufen were over and it was obvious that the unity of the Ottonian Reich could never be restored. 1936A. W. Clapham Romanesque Archit. viii. 179 The splendours of the Ottonian revival in painting, miniature, ivory, and metal work. 1938Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Nov. 732/2 A group of over seventy Carolingian and Ottonian bindings. 1939Archit. Rev. LXXXVI. 130/3 It is no service to German art to maintain that it is best when purest; its real triumphs are those happy marriages of Teutonic exuberance and Latin elegance which bear their first fruit in Ottonian miniatures. 1943Burlington Mag. Sept. 228/2 The style of the work is ‘Ottonian’, an early phase of Romanesque. 1951A. R. Lewis Naval Power & Trade Mediterranean, 500–1100 vi. 223 The increase of Byzantine gold coins in Germany, the luxury of the Ottonian court, the influence of Byzantine art motifs in German Romanesque architecture. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Jan. 4/4 Paintings of the Rheims school in Carolingian times are shown to herald the transcendental outlook of Ottonian miniatures. 1967Cambr. Hist. Later Greek & Early Medieval Philos. 587 After 950 the Ottonian dynasty were capable of re-establishing monarchical power. Ibid. 590 Bishop Adalbold of Utrecht..was a man of many-sided activities in his diocese, his territory and at court, representing a type not infrequent under the Ottonians. 1968Eng. Hist. Rev. LXXXIII. 24 It is impossible even to suggest a figure for the size of Saxon contingents during the decades when the Ottonians acquired their imperium. 1970Oxf. Compan. Art 799/2 The Byzantine strand, always present in Ottonian art, was particularly strong in the School of Regensburg. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Nov. 1463/3 Ottonian art (as this art of the Saxon and Salian dynasties is generally called). |