Light and colour in Byzantine art
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Word Count
39,250 words, Guess
Page Count
157 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL786662M
- ISBN-100198175183
- OCLC Control Number32508557
- OCLC Control Numberlightcolourinbyz0000jame
- Library of Congress Control Number95018920
and 2 more
- LibraryThing679538
- Goodreads2450209
Classifications
- DDC709/.02/14
- LCCN6250 .J36 1996
Description
This is the first book to investigate the issue of light and colour in Byzantine art. Liz James argues that in neglecting colour, we have not fully understood Byzantine art. She contrasts modern perceptions of colour with ancient Greek and Byzantine ones in order to demonstrate that while we associate colour with hue, the Byzantines emphasised the relative lightness or darkness of a colour. This emphasis affected both the Byzantines' use of a colour within a work of art, and their conceptual view of a colour. In examining the physical evidence, combined with Byzantine colour vocabulary and Byzantine descriptions of colours, Liz James opens up the issue beyond the purely art historical into a study of art in its historical and perceptual context.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Clarendon studies in the history of art
Other Editions
- Light and colour in Byzantine art
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