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