1st Edition
Colour and Light in Ancient and Medieval Art
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
Biography
Chloë N. Duckworth is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Leicester, UK.
Anne E. Sassin is Honourary Research Fellow, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.
