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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- List of colour plates -- Preface -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- On colour and light -- 1 Symbolic use of colour in Easter Island (Rapa Nui) in its Polynesian context -- 2 The colourful world of metal invention in the 5th millennium BCE Balkans -- 3 Late Bronze Age manipulation of light and colour in metal -- 4 By the dawn's early light: Colour, light and liminality in the throne room at Knossos -- 5 Tripping on the fantastic light: Reclaiming the Parthenon Marbles -- 6 Divine light through earthly colours: Mediating perception in Late Antique churches -- 7 The use of colour in Romanesque manuscript illumination -- 8 Light and colour in Portuguese Romanesque churches: The shaping of space -- 9 Gold, glass and light: The Franciscan vision in representations of the stigmata -- 10 Glints and colours of human inwardness: Bartholomaeus de Bononia's De luce and contemporary preaching -- 11 Light, the Dominicans and the cult of St. Thomas Aquinas -- 12 Tinted drawing: Translucency, luminosity and lumen vitae -- 13 From monochrome to polychrome in historical Persian architecture: A comparative study of light and spatial perception in places of worship -- 14 From texts to tiles: Sufi colour conceptualization in Safavid Persia -- Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Vendor-supplied metadata |
| Subject |
Arts, Ancient.
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Art, Medieval.
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Color.
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Light.
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Color
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Light
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light (energy)
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color (perceived attribute)
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ART -- Performance.
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ART -- Reference.
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Art, Medieval
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Arts, Ancient
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Color
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Light
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Duckworth, Chloë N., editor.
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Sassin, Anne E., editor
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| ISBN |
9781351682961 |
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1351682962 |
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