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 ожгов 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 Формат издания: 24,5 см х 30,5 см Иллюстрации Автор Sheldon Barr.  Термин `домашнееИздательство: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008 г Суперобложка, 144 стр ISBN 1851495487 Язык: Английский Мелованная бумага, Цветные иллюстрации.