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

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

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

ACLS History E-Book Project

Format Paperback Subject Computers the Internet Programming Languages Publisher ACLS History E Book Project United States

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

Professor Otto Demus's work on Byzantine art represents one of the great original contributions to the subject made in this century. His early studies in the 1930s on the "mosaics of Greece were followed by his fundamental work on the mosaics of Norman Sicily after the Second World War, and the later great studies of the decoration of San Marco in Venice, which remained throughout his abiding concern. These two volumes make available the papers Otto Demus published in a variety of periodicals in the course of a long and highly productive working lifetime. They have been edited and revised by Dr. Irmgard Hutter, a pupil and friend of the author. Volume I includes Demus's papers on Byzantine art in general, including his outstanding "contribution to the study of the development of Palaeologan art. His interest in the working methods of the artists is also evident. The volume includes most of his papers on Byzantine mosaics, mural painting, icons, enamels and manuscript illumination. Volume II deals with the author's lifelong interest, the mosaics of the church of San Marco in Venice. The papers reproduced here cover the history and decoration of this great monument, including the sculpture. The influence of the San Marco mosaics and Byzantine art on the art of western Europe is also covered.

Studies in Byzantium, Venice and the West, Volume I

Pindar Press

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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 (Acls History E-book Project)

Studies in Byzantium, Venice and the West, Volume I