Simbol sau indice? Despre polisemia culorii în imaginea de tradiție bizantină
Symbol or index? On the colour’s polysemy in the image of Byzantine tradition

Summary/Abstract: In the Byzantine tradition the symbolic value of the colour is difficult to approach within the terms of cultural anthropology in the absence of a discourse produced by the cultural elites of the Empire regarding the significance of colours, an absence caused by their different way of theorizing the colour (relevant for them being not the chromatic tone, but the luminosity and the saturation). On the other hand, a more cautious approach of the colours’ iconography might have as a reference point the index value which sometimes is attributed to the colour regarding the articulation of the images’ sense through the denotation of some materialities; however their identification is strictly dependent on the wider context of the pictorial representation.

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