A műemlékek sokszínűsége (A 28. Egri Nyári Egyetem előadásai 1998 Eger, 1998)

Előadások / Presentations - Georgiosz PROKOPIU: The polychromy in byzantine art church decoration, origin, form and technique

then, also stylised its figures, making of them, as in the mosaics, two-dimensional silhouettes; with this difference, however - that both the figures and the background here may take on various chromatic tones that give them a painterly touch. This painterly touch helped to make good the inability of fresco to increase aesthetically surface and space, as mosaic, with its minute cubes, could do. Fresco, finally, while of course not possessing the brillance and attractive glamour fo mosaic, nevertheless fills the spectator with wonder, thanks to its suffused light which, shining at various points among the darker colours of its immaterial images, permeates space with silent mystery. A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR BYZANTINE ART AND ARCHITECRURE Demus 0.: „Byzantine Mosaic Decoration", London 1948 Krautheimer R.: „Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture", Penguin 1965 Michelis P.: „An Aesthetic Approach to Byzantine Art", London 1955 Procopiou Ang.: „The Macedonian Question in Byzantine Painting", Athens 1962 Procopiou Ang.: „The Aesthetic Revolt of Byzantinum" New Forms magazine of fine Arts, vol. 2, p. 66, Athens 1962 *Prokopiu G.: „Cosmic Symbolism in Byzantine Architecture" Athens 1981 Schug-Wille Chr.: „Art of the Byzantine World" New York, 1969 Smith B.: „The Dome", Princeton N. J. 1950 Strzygowski J.: „Orient odez Rom?" Leipzig 1901 Talbo-Rice D.: „The Beginnings of Christian Art", London 1957 and also an article by Prokopiou G.: „Gli elementi simbolici dell' architettura Byzantica" (In Italian) in the Volume „L Arte Byzantina in Greecia" Frederico Motta ed. Milano 1995, p. 34.