Editing Pericopes of Henry II (section)

==Style of the miniatures==
The style of the "Liuthar group", unlike other schools in [[Ottonian art]], departs further from rather than returning to classical traditions; it "carried transcendentalism to an extreme", with "marked schematization of the forms and colours", "flattened form, conceptualized draperies and expansive gesture".<ref>Beckwith, 104, 102</ref> Backgrounds are often composed of bands of colour with a symbolic rather than naturalistic rationale, the size of figures reflects their importance, and in them  "emphasis is not so much on movement as in gesture and glance", with narrative scenes "presented as a quasi-liturgical act, dialogues of divinity".<ref>Beckwith, 108–110, both quoted</ref>  The group was produced perhaps from the 990s to 1015 or later, and major manuscripts include the Munich [[Gospels of Otto III]], the [[Bamberg Apocalypse]], and a volume of biblical commentary there, and the Pericopes of Henry II, the best known and most extreme of the group, where "the figure-style has become more monumental, more rarified and sublime, at the same time thin in density, insubstantial, mere silhouettes of colour against a shimmering void".<ref>Beckwith, 112</ref> The group introduced the background of solid gold to Western illumination.