Research Catalog

Title

New light on old glass : recent research on Byzantine mosaics and glass / edited by Chris Entwistle and Liz James.

Publication

London : British Museum, c2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Entwistle, Christopher.
• James, Liz.

Description

xi, 351 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps; 30 cm.

Series Statement

Research publication, 1747-3640 ; 179

Uniform Title

Research publication (British Museum) ; no. 179.

Subjects

• Glassware, Byzantine
• Mosaics, Byzantine

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Glass mosaic tesserae from the 5th to 6th century baptistery of San Giovanni alle Fonti, Milan, Italy : analytical investigations / Elisabetta Neri, Marco Verità and Alberto Conventi -- Glass tesserae from the Petra Church / Fatma Marii -- Studies in Middle Byzantine glass mosaics from Amorium / Hanna Witte -- Mosaic tesserae from the Basilica of San Severo and glass production in Classe, Ravenna, Italy / Cesare Fiori -- The observation and conservation of mosaics in Ravenna in the 5th and 6th centuries / Cetty Muscolino -- A quest for wisdom : the 6th-century mosaics of Hagia Sophia and late antique aesthetics / Nadine Schibille -- Mosaics and materials : mosaics from the 5th and 6th centuries in Ravenna and Poreč / Claudia Tedeschi -- A study of glass tesserae from mosaics in the monasteries of Daphni and Hosios Loukas / Rossella Arletti -- Notes on the morphology of the gold glass tesserae from Daphni Monastery / Polytimi Loukopoulou and Antonia Moropoulou -- Glass producers in late antique and Byzantine texts and papyri / E. Marianne Stern -- On the manufacture of diatreta and cage cups from the Pharos beaker to the Lycurgus Cup / Rosemarie Lierke -- The Lycurgus Cup / Jaś Elsner -- Making late antique gold glass / Daniel Thomas Howells -- Gold glass in late antiquity : scientific analysis of the British Museum collection / Andrew Meek -- Late antique glass pendants in the British Museum / Chris Entwistle and Paul Corby Finney (with an appendix by Philip Fletcher) -- A scientific study of late antique glass pendants in the British Museum / Stefan Röhrs, Andrew Meek and Christ Entwistle -- The production and uses of glass in Byzantine Thessaloniki / Anastassios Antonaras -- "To beautify small things": minutiae and majesty in the mosaics of Parentium / Ann Terry -- Experiencing the light : Byzantine church window glass and the aesthetics of worship / Claire Nesbitt -- New light on the "Bright Ages": experiments with mosaics and light in medieval Rome / Claudia Bolgia -- The absence of glass : talking about the mosaics at Porta Panagia in Thessaly, Greece / Maria Vassilaki -- Borders of experimentalism : glass in the frame of the Genoa Mandylion / Francesca Dell'Acqua -- Viewing the mosaics of the monasteries of Hosios Loukas, Daphni and the Church of Santa Maria Assunta, Torcello / Robin Cormack -- The Abbot Philotheos, founder of the Katholikon of Hosios Loukas : old and new observations / Nano Chatzidakis -- Recording Byzantine mosaics in 19th-century Greece : the case of the Byzantine Research Fund (BRF) Archive / Dimitra Kotoula (with a contribution from Amalia G. Kakissis) -- The Christ head at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the apse in the Bode Museum, Berlin, and other fake mosaics / Irina Andreescu-Treadgold -- Alexandria on the Barada : the mosaics of the Great Mosque in Damascus / Judith S. McKenzie -- Mosaics by numbers : some preliminary evidence from the Leverhulme Database / Liz James, Emőke Soproni and Bente Bjørnholt -- Early Islamic and Byzantine silver stain / Lisa Pilosi and David Whitehouse -- Victorian and Justinianic? Painter of Practitioner? In situ or reverse? The mosaicing of Westminster Cathedral / Paul Bentley -- Glossary.

Call Number

JQG 14-35

ISBN

• 9780861591794 (pbk.)
• 0861591798 (pbk.)

OCLC

806493551

Title

New light on old glass : recent research on Byzantine mosaics and glass / edited by Chris Entwistle and Liz James.

Imprint

London : British Museum, c2013.

Series

Research publication, 1747-3640 ; 179

Research publication (British Museum) ; no. 179.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Entwistle, Christopher.

James, Liz.

Research Call Number

JQG 14-35