Shades of meaning : shadows in medieval manuscript illumination /

"Are there shadows in medieval art? Studies on the role of shadows in art history have either glanced over or ignored the medieval period, yet people of the Middle Ages certainly saw and thought about shadows and recorded their ideas about these phenomena in texts and images. This book examines...

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Main Author:	DeLuca, Dominique (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2025]
Series:	Art and material culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe ; v. 25.
Subjects:	Shades and shadows in art. Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval > Themes, motives. Illumination of books and manuscripts, European > 15th century > Themes, motives. Ombres dans l'art. Enluminure médiévale > Thèmes, motifs. Enluminure européenne > 15e siècle > Thèmes, motifs.

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Summary:	"Are there shadows in medieval art? Studies on the role of shadows in art history have either glanced over or ignored the medieval period, yet people of the Middle Ages certainly saw and thought about shadows and recorded their ideas about these phenomena in texts and images. This book examines references to shadows in science, religion, and folklore of the Middle Ages. Through the lens of fifteenth-century manuscript painting, it investigates visual, metaphorical, and supernatural shadows in art to discover what shadows meant to the medieval viewer"--
Item Description:	Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Case Western Reserve University, 2020, under the title: Ab umbra ad umbram : shadows in late medieval secular manuscripts.
Physical Description:	xi, 195 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9789004547155 9004547150
ISSN:	2212-4187 ;