Natural Light in Medieval Churches

Natural Light in Medieval Churches

Sullivan, Alice Isabella; Ivanovici, Vladimir

Brill

12/2022

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Inglês

9789004527959

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Acknowledgements


List of Figures


Notes on Contributors





Introduction


?Vladimir Ivanovici and Alice Isabella Sullivan





Part 1: Light, Theology, and Aesthetics


1 Illuminated by Divine Presence: Natural Light in the Katholikon at Decani Monastery


?Anna Adashinskaya





2 Natural Darkness and the Transfiguration Church on Il'ina Street in Novgorod (1378)


?Olga Yunak





3 Transparency, Color, and Light at Ferapontov Monastery's Nativity of the Mother of God Church


?Maria Shevelkina





4 The Blessed Sacrament Shining in Light: Windowed Niches in Medieval Livonian Churches


?Vera Henkelmann





5 Seeing beyond Seeing: Light and Theophanic Contemplation at the Enkleistra of Neophytos, Cyprus


?Maria Paschali and Dimitris Minasidis





6 Space and Light: Aesthetics of Light in the Byzantine Church


?Iakovos Potamianos





Part 2: Lighting Sacred Spaces


7 Light of the East in the West: Natural Light in the Monastic Rupestrian Complex of San Pedro de Rocas (Galicia)


?Natalia Figueiras Pimentel and Jorge Lopez Quiroga





8 Sun, Stones, and Saints: On the Orientation of the Church of Sant'Ambrogio alla Rienna (SA)


?Andrea Mattiello





9 Natural Light in the Church of the Holy Cross at Patrau?i Monastery


?Vladimir Ivanovici, Alice Isabella Sullivan and Gabriel-Dinu Herea





10 Modeling the Sunlight Illumination of the Church at Studenica Monastery


?Travis Yeager, Jelena Bogdanovic, Leslie Forehand, Dusan Danilovic, Magdalena Dragovic, Debanjana Chatterjee, Jacob Gasper, Marko Pejic, Aleksandar Cucakovic, Anastasija Martinenko and Charles Kerton





11 Architectural Emptiness and Natural Light: The Church of the Virgin at Studenica Monastery


?Ljiljana Cavic





12 Canticle of the Sun: Archaeoastronomy and Solar Eucharistic Worship in the Millennial New World


?Ruben G. Mendoza





Indexes
Byzantine; Slavic; architecture; church; light; liturgy; orientation; revelation; ritual; theophany