The "main plane" as a compositional element in the style of the Macedonian Renaissance and its origins

Author

Narkiss, Bezalel

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Dumbarton Oaks papers/Studies on art and archeology in honor of Ernst Kitzinger on his seventy-fifth birthday. 1987, Vol. 41, p. 425-441, 13 ill.

ISSN

0070-7546

Abstract (en)

On the style of composing landscape in Byzantine illuminations. Discusses the taste during the Macedonian Renaissance for placing the farthest planes of the subject at the sides or lower part of the composition. Author describes the essence of this main plane concept as seeing the picture from the inside out.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 300-1400 -- Pictorial arts -- Manuscript illumination
• Manuscript illumination
• Byzantine
• Macedonian Renaissance
• Landscape
• Style
• Composition
• Space
• 800-1300

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 300-1400 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Enluminure
• Enluminure
• Byzantin (art)
• Renaissance macédonienne
• Paysage
• Style
• Composition
• Espace
• 800-1300

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19910101-00447717

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