Colour and Light in Ancient and Medieval Art

Chloë N. Duckworth, Anne E. Sassin (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

238 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4724-7839-9 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

The myriad ways in which colour and light have been adapted and applied in the art, architecture, and material culture of past societies is the focus of this interdisciplinary volume. Light and colour’s iconographic, economic, and socio-cultural implications are considered by established and emerging scholars including art historians, archaeologists, and conservators, who address the variety of human experience of these sensory phenomena. In today’s world it is the norm for humans to be surrounded by strong, artificial colours, and even to see colour as perhaps an inessential or surface property of the objects around us. Similarly, electric lighting has provided the power and ability to illuminate and manipulate environments in increasingly unprecedented ways. In the context of such a saturated experience, it becomes difficult to identify what is universal, and what is culturally specific about the human experience of light and colour. Failing to do so, however, hinders the capacity to approach how they were experienced by people of centuries past. By means of case studies spanning a broad historical and geographical context and covering such diverse themes as architecture, cave art, the invention of metallurgy, and medieval manuscript illumination, the contributors to this volume provide an up-to-date discussion of these themes from a uniquely interdisciplinary perspective. The papers range in scope from the meaning of colour in European prehistoric art to the technical art of the glazed tiles of the Shah mosque in Isfahan. Their aim is to explore a multifarious range of evidence and to evaluate and illuminate what is a truly enigmatic topic in the history of art and visual culture.

Chloë N. Duckworth is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Leicester, UK. Anne E. Sassin is Honourary Research Fellow, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.

Table of Contents

Front matter i
Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xiv
List of Contributors xv
Introduction xxiii

On Colour and Light
Chloë N. Duckworth and Anne E. Sassin

Chapter 1

Symbolic Use of Colour in Easter Island (Rapa Nui) in its Polynesian Context

David Govantes-Edwards

Chapter 2

The Colourful World of Metal Invention in the 5th Millennium BCE Balkans

Miljana Radivojević

Chapter 3

Late Bronze Age Manipulation of Light and Colour in Metal

Stephanie Aulsebrook

Chapter 4

By the Dawn’s Early Light: Colour, Light and Liminality in the Throne Room at Knossos

Katy Soar

Chapter 5

Tripping on the Fantastic Light: Reclaiming the Parthenon Marbles

James Beresford

Chapter 6

Divine Light through Earthly Colours: Mediating Perception in Late Antique Churches

Vladimir Ivanovici

Chapter 7

The Use of Colour in Romanesque Manuscript Illumination

Andreas Petzold

Chapter 8

Light and Colour in Portuguese Romanesque Churches: The Shaping of Space

Jorge Rodrigues

Chapter 9

Gold, Glass and Light: The Franciscan Vision in Representations of the Stigmata

Éowyn Kerr-DiCarlo

Chapter 10

Glints and Colours of Human Inwardness: Bartholomaeus de Bononia’s De luce and Contemporary Preaching

Francesca Galli

Chapter 11

Light, the Dominicans and the Cult of St Thomas Aquinas

Anthony McGrath

Chapter 12

Tinted drawing: Translucency, Luminosity and lumen vitae

Sharon Lacey

Chapter 13

From Monochrome to Polychrome in Historical Persian Architecture: A Comparative Study of Light and Spatial Perception in Places of Worship

Maryam Mahvash

Chapter 14

From Texts to Tiles: Sufi Colour Conceptualization in Safavid Persia

Idries Trevathan

Erscheinungsdatum	15.09.2017
Zusatzinfo	60 Halftones, color; 28 Halftones, black and white; 60 Illustrations, color; 28 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Sozialwissenschaften
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-4724-7839-8 / 1472478398
ISBN-13	978-1-4724-7839-9 / 9781472478399
Zustand	Neuware