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Like an Ancient Shrine - Mid-19th Century Architectural Theory, the Memorial Mosaics for Prince Albert and the Queen Victoria's Position as Female Sovereign. (Hardcover)
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Like an Ancient Shrine - Mid-19th Century Architectural Theory, the Memorial Mosaics for Prince Albert and the Queen Victoria's Position as Female Sovereign. (Hardcover)
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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 Victorias memorial program as a whole will be described and
compared to contemporary mourning rituals as well as British
precedents for initiating similar cults.
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