During thew 1000 years of the Middle Ages, art was based on the teachings of the Church, but also had “complex and ongoing relationship with the memory and legacy of the Roman Empire” in terms of the varying degrees of acceptance of classicism in the Byzantine, Carolingian, Romanesque and Gothic eras. Dis cuss this statement as it applies to the representation of the human figure in Mediaeval art. Refer to examples such as the San Vitale mosaics, Doors of Bishop
Bernward, the Tympanum of Autun, the jamb figures of Chartres and Reims.
