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«Luce renobatus» : speculations on the placement and importance of lights in Ravenna’s Neonian baptistery

Ivanovici, Vladimir

In: Manipolare la luce in epoca premoderna : aspetti architettonici, artistici e filosofici = Manipulating light in premodern times : architectural, artistic, and philosophical aspects, 2014, p. 18-29

Introduzione = Introduction

Mondini, Daniela ; Ivanovici, Vladimir

In: Manipolare la luce in epoca premoderna : aspetti architettonici, artistici e filosofici = Manipulating light in premodern times : architectural, artistic, and philosophical aspects, 2014, p. 7-16

Manipolare la luce in epoca premoderna : aspetti architettonici, artistici e filosofici = Manipulating light in premodern times : architectural, artistic, and philosophical aspects

Mondini, Daniela ; Ivanovici, Vladimir

Mendrisio ; Cinisello Balsamo : Mendrisio Academy Press ; Silvana Editoriale, 2014

(ISA, Istituto di storia e teoria dell'arte e dell'architettura)

ISBN: 978-88-3662-721-9

Light is the essential medium across which space, forms, and colors become perceivable to the human eye. This collection of studies investigates the use of light – natural and artificial – in Christian architecture and art from late antiquity to the Baroque, revealing its complex symbolism and the modes in which it comes to be enacted. Thus, the following are analyzed: the architectonic...