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Italian Mosaics 300-1300

Abbeville Press

English Text.
New York, 2010; hardback, pp. 432, 360 col. ill., cm 27x33.

ISBN: 0-7892-1076-2 - EAN13: 9780789210760

Subject: Mosaic

Period: 0-1000 (0-XI) Ancient World,1000-1400 (XII-XIV) Middle Ages

Languages:  english text  

Weight: 3.38 kg


Ever since their emergence as a major art form in the Hellenistic era, mosaics have been prized for the glittering radiance of their colors, their permanent, almost eternal nature, and the painstaking craftsmanship required to create them. In late antique and medieval Italy, mosaics were the most important medium for monumental religious art, just as frescoes would be in the Renaissance. In fact, the mosaics that adorn the fourth to sixth-century churches, baptisteries, and mausoleums of Rome, Ravenna, Naples, and Milan are among the first examples of Christian pictorial art on a grand scale. These early works were still indebted to classical conventions, but as the Middle Ages progressed, Italian mosaics came to more clearly reflect a Christian, transcendentalist worldview. Their style usually also displayed a strong Byzantine influence; indeed, in the final flowering of the art in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, many Italian mosaics were actually executed by Byzantine craftsmen.

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