Channel Style

Refers to a distinctive style that developed in Flanders and northern France, beginning in the late tenth century and lasting through the 12th century. The style is seen in manuscript illumination, wall painting, and other art, and is formed by the merging of styles on the continent with Anglo-Saxon styles from across the Channel in England. The style is characterized by dynamic evolution and differs from surrounding regional styles in its more intimate scale, linear vitality, fluid patterns of curves, dancing buoyancy of figures, and illusionism.