TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pappalardo,Umberto
AU  - Ciardiello,Rosaria
AU  - Pedicini,Luciano
TI  - Greek and Roman mosaics
SN  - 9780789211255 (hbk.)
AV  - NA3770 .P3513 2012
U1  - 738.50937 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Abbeville Press
KW  - Mosaics, Roman
KW  - Mosaics, Hellenistic
KW  - Mosaics, Byzantine
N2  - 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
ER  -