| Lighting in Early Byzantium Contributor(s): Bouras, Laskarina (Author), Parani, Maria G. (Author), Boyd, Susan A. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0884023176 ISBN-13: 9780884023173 Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection OUR PRICE: $24.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2009 Annotation: This book stands alone as the first general survey of lighting in Byzantium. Although relatively well known by specialists, Byzantine lighting devices have not been treated independently, but rather presented and discussed in connection with other Byzantine minor arts. The first part of the book discusses the technology and types of lighting devices and explains their decorative symbolism and social function. The second half illustrates this narrative by drawing on a Dumbarton Oaks exhibition, "Lighting in Early Byzantium," which presented to the public some of the finest surviving late Roman and early Byzantine lighting devices. Some of these are now published for the first time. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Optics - History | Middle East - General - History | Ancient - General |
| Dewey: 621.323 |
| LCCN: 2006034050 |
| Series: Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Collection Publications |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 9.28" W x 10.44" (1.64 lbs) 170 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Contributor Bio(s): Parani, Maria G.: - Maria G. Parani is Lecturer in Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Art and Archaeology at the University of Cyprus.Bouras, Laskarina: - Laskarina Bouras was Curator of the Byzantine Collection of the Benaki Museum in Athens. |