Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917 - Hardcover

Barr, Sheldon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851495487 ISBN 13: 9781851495481

Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist, 2008

Synopsis

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 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

About this title

About the Author:

Sheldon Barr, a graduate of Columbia College, has been a dealer and collector in the art glass field since 1967. Barr has written extensively on the subject.

About this edition

• Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Dist
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1851495487
• ISBN 13: 9781851495481
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144