The Mosaic Decoration of San Marco, Venice

Decorated with the richest, most beautiful mosaics in the world, the Venetian church of San Marco is quite literally a treasure house of medieval art. The domes and walls of the church, encrusted with stone, glass, and gold, have been recognized, over the centuries, as a glorious historical and artistic record. Peopled with hundreds and figures—Adam and Eve, Noah and his progeny, Isaiah, Christ, Mark, of course, and other holy men and women of Venice—these mosaics create a cosmic panorama. The Mosaic Decoration of San Marco, Venice brings these unrivaled mosaics into breathtaking focus, combining a descriptive history of their creation and repair over the ages with close-up photographs revealing their iconographic detail.

Arts & Photography

Demus, Otto

Architecture

University of Chicago Press

Decorated with the richest, most beautiful mosaics in the world, the Venetian church of San Marco is quite literally a treasure house of medieval art. The domes and walls of the church, encrusted with stone, glass, and gold, have been recognized, over the centuries, as a glorious historical and artistic record. Peopled with hundreds and figures—Adam and Eve, Noah and his progeny, Isaiah, Christ, Mark, of course, and other holy men and women of Venice—these mosaics create a cosmic panorama. The Mosaic Decoration of San Marco, Venice brings these unrivaled mosaics into breathtaking focus, combining a descriptive history of their creation and repair over the ages with close-up photographs revealing their iconographic detail.

Contents:Subtilitas Graecorum -- Early lessons and revivals -- Towards the Romanesque -- Colonial art -- The birth of gothic -- The dawn of European painting.

Byzantine Art and the West

New York University Press

This book is by far the most comprehensive and fully documented study in English of Romanesque mural painting. In ten chapters Professor Demus discusses the complex interaction of "Byzantine" and "Western" elements within the Romanesque style, and the connections between mural painting and manuscript illumination. By analyzing the artists' techniques and the iconographic schemes which they executed, he traces the paths taken by Romanesque artists across the map of Europe. Includes sections devoted specifically to Italy, France, Spain, England, Germany and Austria. Profusely illustrated with spectacular tipped-in color plates.

Romanesque Mural Painting

Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers

frontis, photos, index, xxi, 274p. Red cloth. dj. 27cm. Errata slip laid in. Jacket has a small chip.

History & Criticism

Hardcover. Illustrated cloth covers. Small 4to. B/W photos. Prev. owner's name neatly penned to top of titlepage. Condition very good. No dust jacket. A handsome reprint of the original 1949 edition. Provides "all the archaeological and documentary data necessary for a close study of the monuments, data which were in part never ascertained, in part never collected before; to analyse the monuments themselves as works of art, to show the men behind their work; and to assign to the single decorations (or parts of decorations) their places within the framework of the Sicilian and the Byzantine developments". 478pp + plates of illustrations. ISBN-13: 978-0878173105 ISBN-10: 0878173102.

Mosaics of Norman Sicily

Decorative Arts & Design

Hacker Art Books

Byzantine Mosaic Decoration: Aspects of Monumental Art in Byzantium

History

Aristide d Caratzas Pub

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Byzantine Mosaic Decoration; Aspects of Monumental Art in Byzantium

Hassell Street Press

Format Hardcover Subject Mosaics Byzantine Romanesque Art Publisher ACLS History E Book Project

ACLS History E-Book Project

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Byzantine Mosaic Decoration: Aspects of Monumental Art in Byzantium (Acls History E-book Project)

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The Mosaic Decoration of San Marco, Venice

The Mosaic Decoration of San Marco, Venice

Byzantine Art and the West

Romanesque Mural Painting

Byzantine Art and the West

Mosaics of Norman Sicily

Byzantine Mosaic Decoration: Aspects of Monumental Art in Byzantium

Byzantine Mosaic Decoration; Aspects of Monumental Art in Byzantium

Byzantine Mosaic Decoration: Aspects of Monumental Art in Byzantium

Byzantine Mosaic Decoration: Aspects of Monumental Art in Byzantium (Acls History E-book Project)