Author: Owen Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Designs for Mosaic and Tessellated Pavements with an Essay on Their Materials and Structure by F. O. Ward
Designs for Mosaic and Tessellated Pavements by Owen Jones
Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World
Author: Katherine M. D. Dunbabin
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Church and altar decorations and mosaic pictures
Author: John Henry Parker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Roman
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Roman
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The Grammar of Ornament
Author: Owen Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Hand-list of Books on the Decorative Arts in the Reference Department ...
Author: Liverpool (England). Public Libraries, Museums, and Art Gallery. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Journals of Sieges Carried on by the Army Under the Duke of Wellington, in Spain, During the Years 1811 to 1814
Author: Sir John Thomas Jones (bart.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Topkapi Scroll
Author: Gülru Necipoğlu
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Proceedings
Author: Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The Fundamentals of Interior Design and Decoration
Author: Francis J. Geck
Publisher: WCB/McGraw-Hill
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher: WCB/McGraw-Hill
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description