Greek and Roman mosaics / Umberto Pappalardo, Rosaria Ciardiello ; photography by Luciano Pedicini ; translated from the Italian by Ceil Friedman.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Publication details: New York : Abbeville Press, 2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 320 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 34 cmISBN: 9780789211255 (hbk.)Uniform titles: Mosaici greci e romani. English. Subject(s): Mosaics, Roman | Mosaics, Hellenistic | Mosaics, ByzantineDDC classification: 738.50937 LOC classification: NA3770 | .P3513 2012Summary: HISTORY OF ART: BCE TO C 500 CE, ANCIENT & CLASSICAL WORLD. The styles and techniques of the ancient mosaicist's art are given a concise yet authoritative exposition in the first part of this handsome volume. The second, and larger, part conducts the reader on a chronological tour of the most important centers of the art form's development, from the Macedonian capital of Pella, whose compositions in natural pebbles set a high artistic standard for mosaics at the very beginning of their history, to the Basilica of San Vitale at Ravenna, whose wall and vault mosaics, with their glittering vision of a triumphant Christianity, mark the transition between antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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HISTORY OF ART: BCE TO C 500 CE, ANCIENT & CLASSICAL WORLD. The styles and techniques of the ancient mosaicist's art are given a concise yet authoritative exposition in the first part of this handsome volume. The second, and larger, part conducts the reader on a chronological tour of the most important centers of the art form's development, from the Macedonian capital of Pella, whose compositions in natural pebbles set a high artistic standard for mosaics at the very beginning of their history, to the Basilica of San Vitale at Ravenna, whose wall and vault mosaics, with their glittering vision of a triumphant Christianity, mark the transition between antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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