James, Liz. Light and Color in Byzantine Art

Authors

Kathleen Maxwell, Santa Clara UniversityFollow

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

9-17-1998

Publisher

The Medieval Review

Abstract

James' title coupled with the generous number of color illustrations in her text led me to assume that she would survey Byzantine art in more traditional terms of light and color. Instead, the book pursues the perceptual repercussions of color in Byzantine art and is based on James' dissertation, "Colour Perception in Byzantium" (University of London, 1989).

Comments

This is a copy of the original article as published in the journal The Medieval Review, with permission of the journal.

Recommended Citation

Maxwell, Kathleen. Review of Liz James, Light and Colour in Byzantine Art, Clarendon studies in the History of Art (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996) for The Medieval Review (on-line; September 1998).