Venetian Glass Mosaics - 1860 - 1917 (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)

This is the first comprehensive book on Venetian mosaics of the nineteenth century. It illustrates work by both the Salviati Company and the Venice and Murano Glass and Mosaic Company. A carefully researched work, Venetian Glass Mosaics addresses the revival of the art of Venetian mosaic making in the mid-nineteenth century and discusses the complicity of both Antonio Salviati and Sir Austen Henry Layard in that revival. It is a comprehensive work, illustrating Salviati's earliest surviving mosaics, the 1860 mosaic decoration of the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore and continuing through his company's last commission, the Stanford Memorial Church in Palo Alto, California. The recovered art of Venetian mosaic in the late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century is now seen as one of the most important aesthetic achievements of the Victorian-Edwardian era. Neglected and unappreciated for decades, surviving mosaics are being cleaned and restored worldwide. Whether highly visible monuments in major cities or small achievements of Venetian manufacturers are now treasured for the splendid masterpieces they are.

General

Imprint:	ACC Art Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2008
First published:	July 2008
Authors:	Sheldon Barr
Dimensions:	300 x 237 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	143
Edition:	Illustrated Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-85149-548-1
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Handicrafts > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Sculpture & other three-dimensional art forms > Modelling (in clay, wax & other plastic materials) Promotions
LSN:	1-85149-548-7
Barcode:	9781851495481

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