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Category: Mosaics
Ravenna, City of Art
Edizioni Salbaroli-Ravenna. No author, no date. Softcover, 143 pages. An excellent, concise, well illustrate book. A good prelude to seeing the actual mosaics. The Italian guides published (in English) by Edizioni Salbaroli of Milan are the best around. This one contains a brief potted history (no mean feat as it was a very important place at one time), a simple…
Art of the Byzantine Era
David Talbot Rice. softcover, 286 pages. 1 page has 1 line underlined. €15. For the people of Byzantium, their architectural works, frescoes, mosaics, ivories, chalices, bejeweled gospel covers and many other opulent works of art were the material proof of their greatness and power over the Mediterranean states. The vast range of these riches is illustrated in this complete account…
The Mosaics of Rome, from the Third to the Fourteenth Centuries.
Walter Oakeshott. 1967. Cloth Hardcover. 388pp., 32 tipped-in color plates printed at Winterthur, 244 b/w illustrations. Weighs 2,700grams. €20. Sir Walter Fraser Oakeshott was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. He was also a Fellow of the British Academy and President of the Bibliographical Society. This is the book to have to understand the mosaics at all the various locations…