Author: Owen JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Designs for Mosaic and Tessellated Pavements by Owen Jones
Author: Owen JonesDesigns for Mosaic and Tessellated Pavements with an Essay on Their Materials and Structure by F. O. Ward
Author: Owen JonesMosaics of the Greek and Roman World
Author: Katherine M. D. DunbabinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521002301
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive account of mosaics in the ancient world from the early pebble mosaics of Greece to the pavements of Christian churches in the East. Separate chapters in Part I cover the principal regions of the Roman Empire in turn, in order to bring out the distinctive characteristics of their mosaic workshops. Questions of technique and production, of the role of mosaics in architecture, and of their social functions and implications are treated in Part II. The book discusses both well-known works and recent finds, and balances consideration of exceptional masterpieces against standard workshop production. Two main lines of approach are followed throughout: first, the role of mosaics as a significant art form, which over an unbroken span illuminates the evolution of pictorial style better than any comparable surviving medium; and secondly, their character as works of artisan production closely linked to their architectural context.
Hand-list of Books on the Decorative Arts in the Reference Department ...
Author: Liverpool (England). Public Libraries, Museums, and Art Gallery. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ...
Author: Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
The American Cyclopaedia
Author: George RipleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ...
Author: George Peabody LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1226
Book Description
The Grammar of Ornament
Author: Owen JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Reports and Papers Read at the Meetings of the Architectural Societies of the Archdeaconry of Northhampton, the Counties of York and Lincoln (etc.)
Author: The Topkapi Scroll
Author: Gülru NecipoğluPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892363355
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Since precious few architectural drawings and no theoretical treatises on architecture remain from the premodern Islamic world, the Timurid pattern scroll in the collection of the Topkapi Palace Museum Library is an exceedingly rich and valuable source of information. In the course of her in-depth analysis of this scroll dating from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, Gülru Necipoğlu throws new light on the conceptualization, recording, and transmission of architectural design in the Islamic world between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. Her text has particularly far-reaching implications for recent discussions on vision, subjectivity, and the semiotics of abstract representation. She also compares the Islamic understanding of geometry with that found in medieval Western art, making this book particularly valuable for all historians and critics of architecture. The scroll, with its 114 individual geometric patterns for wall surfaces and vaulting, is reproduced entirely in color in this elegant, large-format volume. An extensive catalogue includes illustrations showing the underlying geometries (in the form of incised “dead” drawings) from which the individual patterns are generated. An essay by Mohammad al-Asad discusses the geometry of the muqarnas and demonstrates by means of CAD drawings how one of the scroll’s patterns could be used co design a three-dimensional vault.