Shades of Meaning: Shadows in Medieval Manuscript Illumination

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Shades of Meaning: Shadows in Medieval Manuscript Illumination is written by Dominique DeLuca and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004721681 (ISBN 10) and 9789004721685 (ISBN 13).

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.