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 associa...

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1. Verfasser:	James, Liz (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Oxford [u.a.] Clarendon Press 1996
Schriftenreihe:	Clarendon studies in the history of art 15
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 600-1324 Byzantijnse kunst Kleuren Art, Byzantine Color in art Kunst Farbe Ästhetik Geschichte Licht Byzantinisches Reich Geschichte 0600-1324 Hochschulschrift
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Zusammenfassung:	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.
Beschreibung:	XIV, 157, [56] S. Ill.
ISBN:	0198175183