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Author : Anthony Beeson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Art
ISBN : 144568988X
A lavishly illustrated look at the history of Roman mosaics in Britain, from a renowned expert in the field.
Author : Anthony Beeson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781445689890
A lavishly illustrated look at the history of Roman mosaics in Britain, from a renowned expert in the field.
Author : Peter Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Shire Publications
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032883568
Author : Patricia Witts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0752434217
The stories illustrated in the mosaic pavements that have survived from Roman Britain graphically link us to the world of the Romans in a way that literature, with its nuances of interpretation, cannot. After explaining how and why mosaic pavements were made, Dr. Patricia Witts looks at many of the 200 figured Roman mosaics that can be enjoyed in museums and sites throughout the country. Most portray mythological characters, and the author explains the underlying myths; others are taken from daily life or depict animals, birds, and marine creatures. This lavishly illustrated study is accompanied by a full glossary of technical terms and a gazetteer of relevant sites and museums.
Author : Anne Rainey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Design
ISBN : UOM:39015016583885
Author : Michael Dawson
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789698329
Antiquarian interest in the Roman period mosaics of Britain began in the 16th century. This book is the first to explore responses and attitudes to mosaics, not just at the point of discovery but during their subsequent history. It is a field which has received scant attention and provides a compelling insight into the agency of these remains.
Author : Patricia Witts
Publisher : International
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1407358987
This book brings together over 70 prints and drawings from the collection of nearly 3,000 items formed by Richard Topham (1671-1730). Some are the only records of mosaics that no longer survive, many are published here for the first time.
Author : David S. Neal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015019138950
Author : Sarah Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015053756519
This volume builds upon the copious and varied research on villa mosaics in Roman Britain and evaluates it within the context of elite social life in the 4th century AD. It argues that the mosaics were an integral part of the rich lifestyle of the elite in this period and played an important role in defining their status. Yet these symbols of power were apparently no longer valued to the same degree by the end of the 4th century. In a priod of increasing social and economic instability, the mosaics were one element in an elite lifestyle which was ultimately to prove socially diversive. In this wide-ranging study, Scott considers the significance and long-term impact of the artistic choices made by villa owners.
Author : Umberto Pappalardo
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780789213396
The best-illustrated survey of a spectacular ancient art, now available in an affordable edition Mosaic has been called “painting for eternity,” and it is in fact one of the few arts of antiquity to survive in something like its original condition and variety. Mosaic pavements with geometric and figural motifs first appeared in Greece at the end of the fifth century BC and subsequently spread throughout the classical world, from the palaces of emperors and kings to even relatively modest private homes. Across the Mediterranean, local workshops cultivated many distinctive regional styles, while traveling teams of Hellenistic craftsmen produced figural mosaics of stunning refinement, often modeled after famous paintings; indeed, their work constitutes one of our only records of classical Greek painting, which has been almost entirely lost. 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 chronologically ordered 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 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. Special attention is given to Pompeii and its surroundings, where the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 preserved intact an astonishing variety of mosaics, including such ambitious figural scenes as the famous Alexander Mosaic, composed of some four million miniscule tesserae, as well as characteristically Roman pavements in black and white, and the brightly colored wall mosaics of garden grottoes. Featuring more than 230 vibrant photographs, many newly commissioned, Greek and Roman Mosaics is the first survey of its subject to be illustrated in full color. It will be an essential visual reference for every student of classical antiquity, and a source of considerable delight for art lovers.
Author : Donna Reeves
Publisher : Merehurst
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Mosaics
ISBN : 1853919756
Basic tools - Cutting and scoring - Adhesives, grouts and tools - Direct and indirect mosaic-laying method.
Author : David S. Neal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : England
ISBN : UCSC:32106007052027
Author : Margaret Rule (F.S.A.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Fishbourne site (England)
ISBN : 0333148282
Author : Patricia Witts
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1407315412
Over 700 creatures of land, sea and sky have been recorded from at least 140 Romano-British mosaics. This comprehensively illustrated book is the first detailed study of them. It identifies and discusses the animals, assesses their role in floor decoration, and explains how they were much more than appealing decoration.
Author : Anthony Beeson,Matt Nichol,Joy Appleton
Publisher : Countryside Books (GB)
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1846743923
This fascinating full-color book tells the complete story behind the most spectacular and innovative Roman mosaic ever found in Britain. The Boxford Mosaic, dating from around 350AD, is one of just three mosaics of its kind in the world - a masterpiece of Roman artistry and a beautifully preserved link to the past. Yet it lay hidden beneath a field in Boxford, England, for some 1,600 years until is was fully uncovered in the summer of 2019. The book reveals the inside story of its rediscovery, excavation and the myths depicted on it.