Icons of Sound

Icons of Sound: Voice, Architecture and Imagination in Medieval Art brings together art history and sound studies to offer new perspectives on medieval churches and cathedrals as spaces where the perception of the visual is inherently shaped by sound.

Bissera V. Pentcheva is Professor of Art History at Stanford University.

Introduction Bissera V. Pentcheva 1. Singing Doors: Images, Space, and Sound in the Santa Sabina Narthex Ivan Foletti 2. Sights and Sounds of the Armenian Night Office, as Performed at Ani: A Collation of the Archaeological, Historical, and Liturgical Evidence Christina Maranci 3. The Glittering Sound of Hagia Sophia and the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross in Constantinople Bissera V. Pentcheva 4. Transcendent Visions: Voice and Icon in the Byzantine Imperial Chapels Bissera V. Pentcheva 5. Echoes and Silences of Liturgy: Liturgical Inscriptions and the Temporality of Medieval Rituals Vincent Debiais 6. Sound, Space, and Sensory Perception: The Easter Mass in the Liturgy of San Marco, Venice Deborah Howard 7. The Marble Tempest: Material Imagination, the Echoes of Nostos, and the Transfiguration of Myth in Romanesque Sculpture Francisco Prado-Vilar Epilogue: A Voice from beyond the Grave: Tintoretto among the Art Historians Alexander Nemerov