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Colour and light in ancient and medieval art

Overview

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. 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.

• Publisher: Routledge
• Subject: To 1500 / Color in art History To 1500. / Light in art History To 1500. / Art, Ancient. / Art, Medieval. / Color in art. / Light in art.
• ISBN: 0367432811, 9780367432812

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
N5315.C65 2019	1	BOOK	ARTS