Evangelist portrait
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Evangelist portraits are a specific type of miniature included in ancient and mediaeval illuminated manuscript Gospel Books, and later in Bibles and other books, as well as other media. Each Gospel of
Codex Aureus of Lorsch portrait of Mark with his symbol, around 800
Carolingian miniature portraying the Evangelists with their symbols, from the Aachen Gospels, c. 820
Insular, 8th century, now St Gall. Unusually, a single unspecified Evangelist with all four symbols
Virgil from the Roman Virgil, A 5th-century secular author portrait in the classical tradition. Note the scroll-box, although the book it is in is a codex.
Carolingian art
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Carolingian art comes from the Frankish Empire in the period of roughly 120 years from about 780 to 900—during the reign of Charlemagne and his immediate heirs—popularly known as the Carolingian Renai
The Lothair Crystal, engraved rock crystal, mid-9th century
Ivory plaque, probably from a book cover, Reims late 9th century, with two scenes from the life of Saint Remy and the Baptism of Clovis
Drogo Sacramentary, c. 850: a historiated initial 'C' contains the Ascension of Christ. The text is in gold ink. (Bibliothèque nationale de France)