If the Middle Ages were not Dark Ages, then why the art was inferior to the roman one for so long?

If the Middle Ages were not Dark Ages, then why the art was inferior to the roman one for so long?
That's some minoan -> mycenaean decline and they only got better at the very end.

It's called style, you pleb.
It's like calling the impressionist painting dumb because they're not realistic.

what's so great about the style of medieval art?

What's so bad about it?

Minoans and Myceneans were about the same regarding level of civilization, no probably Myceneans were more organized since they traded in the Western mediterranean and colonized Cyprus and the Levant in the East, the Minoans got to the Levant and had some influence over there but never colonized it to my knowledge

its not art, and they destroyed all of the art that classical civilization didn't hide in a hole in the ground

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if you look at the average everyday tools of the high middleages and the antiquity you will have to see something surprising

the high medieval tools and knifes are much more elaborate and decorated than the equivanecies of the antiquities.
i think in middleages the average wealth was jus tmore equaly and broadly distributed than in classic antiquity because slavery was not anymore practiced as in antiquity, which means espacialy craftmen could become more wealtchy which alloewd them to develope new methods and thereby making quality products cheaper,
also look at clothes, clothes in antiquity for the average person were very very simple why the high european equivalent was much more complicated meaning more effort time and wealth was spent on it meaning that the average person could spend more resources on such things.
but this alse means that sgreater projekts were harder to realise as single persons had not gathered as much wealth, work was more expansive too as free men with education in their craft had to be paid, and so on.
that's the reason that mechanisation started in the 13th century powered by watermills and windmills.

I think the only reason people take offence with the term "dark ages" is that it used to refer to the entire medieval period, not just the early medieval as it is used today. Any attempt to reclaim the early medieval period fails from the get go.

> the period often seems 'dark' from the scarcity of historical record, and artistic and cultural output

Yeah, and why is it that there wasn't any artistic or cultural output to speak of?

que?

there was output, less than in late antiquity, but not as less as many think, problem is that much of it was in romanic churches and cathedrals and such
and this buidlings all were converted to gothic cathedrals, repolished several times, or just burned down
also many objects fo art were made form wood and just rotted away, or got lost in war, or when made from gold just were remade in later artstyles,
also many books and writing srotted becaus eof the european climate, a problem only solved in later times, the romans would have had the same problem with the north and middleeuropean climate

Art went to shit DURING Roman times. Look at the devolution.

>no written sources means its dark maymay
it’s just stupid terminology when held up to other historiographical trends of the present. So are groups with oral histories, like various Amerindians, in a constant dark age until Europeans arrive?

It´s mostly due to that not much solid history was recorded for about 200-300 years, from the fall of rome to the early middleages in the 7th and 8th century. We have the history, but it´s a bit muddy and grey.

Classical Roman art was terrible

>toy dolls are art

The unironically are.

yes definately they are savages,
middleages even the early ones had sources but they were destroyed mainly by european weather, italian sources are better preserved because it's drier there

>afro roman
are kangz right?

You're not answering his question.

it is by definition not art

They were dark ages. Christians murdered all the philosophers and burned all the libraries for being pagan. Massive quantities of knowledge was lost forever. Reminder that historians discovered a roman era mathematical treatise describing calculus more than a thousand years before its modern invention. It had been scrubbed off and a meaningless theological work had been written over it but thanks to modern techniques the original text was recovered.

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>Christians murdered all the philosophers and burned all the libraries for being pagan.
False.

i study history and tat'S wrong, most stuff just decayed over time

A reminder Rome lasted longer as Christian then it did pagan.

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How do we get out of the Imageboard Dark Ages? Why are frog/feels posters pretending to reach mythological tiers of retardation? Is it blind faith?

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Early Middle Ages definitely could be called Dark Ages.

Mycenaeans basically replaced Minoans. They were fully influenced by their culture, which is the reason why there weren't any dark ages after the fall of Minoans.

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But that´s simply not true.
There is plenty of written record.

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