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Lighting in early Byzantium / Laskarina Bouras, Maria G. Parani.
- Title
- Lighting in early Byzantium / Laskarina Bouras, Maria G. Parani.
- Author
- Boura, Laskarina
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ; [Cambridge, Mass.] : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2008.
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- Description
- xiii, 118 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 27 cm.
- Summary
- "This book stands alone as the first general survey of lighting in early Byzantium. Although relatively well known to specialists, Byzantine lighting devices have been presented and discussed usually in connection with other works of Byzantine art, and they have not been treated at great length. The first part of this 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 from the only exhibition ever held devoted exclusively to Byzantine lighting devices. Lighting in Early Byzantium presents to the public a selection of the finest surviving early Byzantine lighting devices, some of which appear in print here for the first time."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Collection publications ; 11
- Uniform Title
- Publications (Byzantine Collection (Dumbarton Oaks)) no. 11.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- "The text of the first half of this book is based primarily on the extensive label copy of the 1984 exhibition at Dumbarton Oaks, Lighting in early Byzantium, which was prepared by the late Laskarina Bouras ... and Susan Boyd"--P. xiii.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (107-116).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / by Susan Boyd -- Appreciation / by Marlia Mundell Mango -- Introduction -- How oil lamps work -- Types of lighting devices -- Symbolic decoration -- Uses of lights -- The lighting system of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople -- Catalogue.
- ISBN
- 9780884023173
- 0884023176
- LCCN
- ^^2006034050
- OCLC
- 73502576
- SCSB-10498738
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library