Micro Mosaics

Author : John Mack
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674026933
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Small Things written by John Mack and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated book celebrates the art of the miniature, but also looks beyond it at the many aspects of "small worlds"--in particular, their capacity to evoke responses that far exceed their physical dimensions. Mack explores the talismanic, religious, or magical properties with which miniatures are often imbued. Considering a wide range of objects, he examines the use of the miniature form in various cultural contexts.

Author : Reham Aarti Jacobsen
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402706356
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mosaics for the First Time written by Reham Aarti Jacobsen and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the tools and techniques of mosaic art and presents nineteen projects, from decorative objects, such as wall hangings and picture frames, to practical ones, such as a clock, a cake stand, and a breakfast tray.

Author : Angie Weston
Publisher : David & Charles
ISBN 13 : 9780715330371
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Micro Mosaics written by Angie Weston and published by David & Charles. This book was released on 2009-04-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a stunning collection of jewellery and accessory projects, all handmade using delicate mini mosaic tiles and beautiful millefiore glass beads. It is ideal for crafters who enjoy mosaics but want to create small, portable items that can be given as gifts. Pretty projects include matching earrings and necklaces, bangles, hair accessories, rings, key rings, luggage labels and jewellery storage ideas.

Author : Petra Schultheiss
Publisher : Georg Olms Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3487155400
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Like an Ancient Shrine written by Petra Schultheiss and published by Georg Olms Verlag. This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Prince Albert died in 1861 at the age of forty-two, his wife Queen Victoria followed this tragic event by an elaborate mourning period in which she surrounded herself as well as her people with memorials of the Prince Consort. Of these, the three most elaborate, the Albert Memorial Chapel, the Royal Mausoleum and the National Memorial to the Prince Consort, all included mosaic decoration. In close connection to current architectural theories such as polychromy or the ideal of the complete decoration as well as the research and experimentation that was carried out with and about the medium mosaic, the memorial mosaics were planned and designed. The medium Queen Victoria chose for these monuments served to underline and strengthen the image of Prince Albert that she created and through this also helped to secure her own claim to power as female sovereign. This book presents an overview of the history of mosaic in England up to the 1860s and a detailed description of the processes of planning and creating the mosaics. Queen Victoria’s memorial program as a whole will be described and compared to contemporary mourning rituals as well as British precedents for initiating similar cults.

Author : Susan Weber Soros
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300104618
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Castellani and Italian Archaeological Jewelry written by Susan Weber Soros and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century in Rome, three generations of the Castellani family created what they called “Italian archaeological jewelry,” which was inspired by the precious Etruscan, Roman, Greek, and Byzantine antiquities being excavated at the time. The Castellani jewelry consisted of finely wrought gold that was often combined with delicate and colorful mosaics, carved gemstones, or enamel. This magnificent book is the first to display and discuss the jewelry and the family behind it. International scholars discuss the life and work of the Castellani, revealing the wide-ranging aspects of the family’s artistic and cultural activities. They describe the making and marketing of the jewelry, the survey collection of all periods of Italian jewelry on display in the Castellani’s palatial store, and the Castellani’s activities in the trade of antiquities, as they sponsored excavations, and restored, dealt, and exhibited antiques. They also recount the family’s involvement in the cultural and political life of their city and country.

Author : Pamela Keech
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781892145284
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Civilized Shopper's Guide to Rome written by Pamela Keech and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Etruscan gold jewelry, religious souvenirs and designer dresses. With this small, discerning guide in hand, visitors will stroll down cobblestone back streets that only native Romans know well and discover one-of-a-kind retail spots. The guide features 12 walks, more than 100 stores, and cafes and restaurants. Each walk takes an hour or two and directs shoppers and window shoppers alike to quality jewellers, clothiers, grocers and much more.

Author : Jeanette Hanisee Gabriel
Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Micromosaics written by Jeanette Hanisee Gabriel and published by Philip Wilson Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of mosaics is of ancient origin, enjoying its first great period during the Roman Empire and its second in eighteenth and nineteenth century Rome, when a flourishing craft developed in response to the Grand Tour. Affluent tourists provided the ideal market for views of Rome and images from Ancient History and mythology, painstakingly worked in tesserae - minute pieces of coloured enamel - a technique known as 'micromosaics.' Some of these were so intricate that one square inch could contain as many as 1,500 tesserae. The range of objects was enormous - from jewellery and snuffboxes to large pictures and tabletops. All of these forms and subjects are comprehensively represented in the Gilbert Collection. This book examine the collection through full-colour illustrations and detailed descriptions and commentaries. New research into the workshops and business practices of two significant Roman mosaicists derived from the archives of the Vatican Mosaic Workshops is detailed in an essay by Massimo Alfieri, while Judy Rudoe explores the techniques and materials of small-scale Roman micromosaic objects, illustrated with spectacular magnified photography.

Author : Erik Flügel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540220169
Total Pages : 1004 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Microfacies of Carbonate Rocks written by Erik Flügel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "an alphabetical list of about 14,000 references on carbonate rocks ... and visual comparison charts for percentage estimation." -- p. vi.

Author : Warwick Rodwell
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789252350
Total Pages : 1379 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cosmatesque Mosaics of Westminster Abbey written by Warwick Rodwell and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 1379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Westminster Abbey contains the only surviving medieval Cosmatesque mosaics outside Italy. They comprise: the ‘Great Pavement’ in the sanctuary; the pavement around the shrine of Edward the Confessor; the saint’s tomb and shrine; Henry III’s tomb; the tomb of a royal child, and some other pieces. Surprisingly, the mosaics have never before received detailed recording and analysis, either individually or as an assemblage. The proposed publication, in two volumes, will present a holistic study of this outstanding group of monuments in their historical architectural and archaeological context. The shrine of St Edward is a remarkable survival, having been dismantled at the Dissolution and re-erected (incorrectly) in 1557 under Queen Mary. Large areas of missing mosaic were replaced with plaster on to which mosaic designs were carefully painted. This 16th-century fictive mosaic is unique in Britain. Conservation of the sanctuary pavement was accompanied by full archaeological recording with every piece of mosaic decoration drawn and colored by David Neal, phase plans have been prepared, and stone-by-stone examination undertaken, petrologically identifying and recording the locations of all the materials present. It has revealed that both the pavements and tombs include a range of exotic stone types. The Cosmati study has shed fresh light on every aspect of the unique series of monuments in Westminster Abbey; this work will fill a major lacuna in our knowledge of 13th-century English art of the first rank, and will command international interest.

Author : Angie Weston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781920268466
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Micro Mosaics written by Angie Weston and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: