2-756-643 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Byzantine glass mosaic, coloured enamel, illumination, (1898). 'Fig 1: Glass-mosaic from the cylindrical vault above the central nave of the tomb-church of Galla Placidia at Ravenna [Italy]. Fig 2: Glass-mosaic from the walls of St. Mark's, Venice. Fig 3: Glass-mosaic from one of the semi-domes of Sta. Sofia, Constantinople [Istanbul]. Fig 4: Glass-mosaic from the vault of the Baptistery of Ecclesia Ursiana (S. Giovanni in Fonte) at Ravenna. Figs 5-9: "Émail cloisonné" from an Altar-Antependium in the Cloister-church at Comburg near Schwäbisch Hall [Germany]. Figs 10 and 11: Illuminations from Gospels of the 10th and 11th centuries in the Imperial Library at St. Petersburg [Russia]. Figs 12 and 13: Ornaments from a manuscript of the 13th century in the public Museum at Moscow. (Fig 1 after an original drawing by A. Knoblauch, architect at Stuttgart. Fig 4, after an original drawing by A. Borkhardt. Figs 5-9, after an original drawing by H Gross, painter and teacher at the Royal Kunstgewerbeschule at Stuttgart...in almost every country of Europe works of art are found, which cannot deny their Byzantine origin'. Plate 31 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]