Artistic Characteristics and Aesthetic Values of Medieval Painting

Abstract

The research studies the European art of painting in the Middle Ages for the period of time from 1100 to 1400 AD and it came in four investigations, the first of which included the presentation of the research problem that deals with the artistic characteristics and aesthetic values ​​of the European art of painting in the Middle Ages in addition to the research methodology, its importance, objectives and limits and defining terms. The second topic has Presenting the concept of medieval arts and the art of painting and its types by dividing it into three stages: Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic, as well as fulfilling the concept of artistic characteristics and aesthetic values. As for the third topic, the research procedures included the study and analysis of the research sample, so that the fourth topic came with the results of the study and the most important conclusions, including that the art of photography was based on a structural system with a regular rhythm once and a free rhythm again to create regular and repeated formations that produced a harmonious and harmonious rhythm system that strengthened the structural structural relations and achieved Visual and aesthetic excitement, as the artist succeeded in imparting his works to a diversity of plastic, love of pictorial creation and interest in lines and colors. Intellectual, aesthetic and even spatial art through constructive artistic treatments in an abstract, symbolic style that tends to simplify and shorthand. The architectural and engineering side was introduced to occupy the important figures and events in the center of artistic painting in artistic spiritual spaces full of symbolism and religious connotations, and then mentioning the researcher's recommendations and proposals.