New light on old glass : recent research on Byzantine mosaics and glass
| Körperschaft: |
British Museum
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| Weitere Verfasser: |
Entwistle, Christopher
James, Liz |
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
London :
British Museum,
2013.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xi, 351 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Research publication (British Museum) ;
179 |
| ISBN: | 0861591798 9780861591794 |
| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 29 Datensätze |
Inhaltsangabe:
- p. v. Preface
- p. vi. Contributors
- p. ix. Illustration Acknowledgements
- p. 1. Glass Mosaic Tesserae from the 5th to 6th Century Baptistery of San Giovanni alle Fonti, Milan, Italy : Analytical Investigations / Elisabetta Neri, Mateo Verità and Alberto Conventi
- p. 11. Glass Tesserae from the Petra Church / Fatma Marii
- p. 25. Studies in Middle Byzantine Glass Mosaics from Amorium / Hanna Witte
- p. 33. Mosaic Tesserae from the Basilica of San Severo and Glass Production in Classe, Ravenna, Italy / Cesare Fiori
- p. 42. The Observation and Conservation of Mosaics in Ravenna in the 5th and 6th Centuries / Cetty Muscolino
- p. 53. A Quest for Wisdom : The 6th-century Mosaics of Hagia Sophia and Late Antique Aesthetics / Nadine Schibille
- p. 60. Mosaics and Materials : Mosaics from the 5th and 6th Centuries in Ravenna and Poreč / Claudia Tedeschi P. 70. A Study of Glass Tesserae from Mosaics in the Monasteries of Daphni and Hosios Loukas / Rossella Arletti
- p. 76. Notes on the Morphology of the Gold Glass Tesserae from Daphni Monastery / Polytimi Loukopoulou and Antonia Moropoulou
- p. 82. Glass Producers in Late Antique and Byzantine Texts and Papyri / E. Marianne Stern
- p. 89. On the Manufacture of Diatreta and Cage Cups 89 from the Pharos Beaker to the Lycurgus Cup / Rosemarie Lierke
- p. 103. The Lycurgus Cup / Jaś Eisner
- p. 112. Making Late Antique Gold Glass / Daniel Thomas Howells
- p. 121. Gold Glass in Late Antiquity : Scientific- Analysis of the British Museum Collection / Andrew Meek
- p. 131. Late Antique Glass Pendants in the British Museum / Chris Entwistle and Paul Corby Finney (with an appendix by Philip Fletcher)
- p. 178. A Scientific Study of Late Antique Glass Pendants in the British Museum / Stefan Röhrs, Andrew Meek and Chris Entwistle
- p. 189. The Production and Uses of Glass in Byzantine Thessaloniki / Anastassios Antonaras
- p. 199. 'To Beautify Small Things' : Minutiae and Majesty in the Mosaics of Parentium / Ann Ferry
- p. 207. Experiencing the Light : Byzantine Church Window Class and the Aesthetics of Worship / Claire Nesbitt
- p. 217. New Light on the 'Bright Ages' : Experiments with Mosaics and Light in Medieval Rome / Claudia Bolgia P. 229. The Absence of Glass : Talking about the Mosaics at Porta Panagia in Thessaly, Creece / Maria Vassilaki
- p. 234. Borders of Experimentalism : Glass in the Frame of Genoa Mandylion / Francesca Dell'Acqua
- p. 242. Viewing the Mosaics of the Monasteries of Hosios Loukas, Daphni and the Church of Santa Maria Assunta, Torcello / Robin Cormack
- p. 254. The Abbot Philotheos, Founder of the Katholikon of Hosios Loukas : Old and New Observations / Nano Chatzidakis
- p. 260. Recording Byzantine Mosaics in 19th-century Greece : The Case of the Byzantine Research Fund (BRF) Archive / Dimitra Kotoula (with a contribution from Amalia G. Kakissis)
- p. 271. The Christ Head at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Apse in the Bode Museum, Berlin, and Other Fake Mosaics / Irina Andreescu-Treadgold
- p. 291. Alexandria on the Barada : The Mosaics of the Great Mosque in Damascus / Judith S. McKenzie
- p. 310. Mosaics by Numbers : Some Preliminary Evidence from the Leverhulme Database / Liz James, Emöke Soproni and Rente Bjornholt
- p. 329. Early Islamic and Byzantine Silver Stain / Lisa Pilosi and David Whitehouse
- p. 338. Victorian or Justinianic? Painter or Practitioner? In Situ or Reverse? : The Mosaicing of Westminster Cathedral / Paul Bentley
- p. 350. Glossary
