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Mosaic Studies Mosaics of Thessaloniki 4th to 14th Century by Charalambos Bakirtzis, Chrysanthi Mavropoulou-Tsioumi and Eftychia Kourkoutidou-Nikolaïdou This volume aspires to fill a gap in the bibliography on the subject, since there are no modern publications of the mosaics of the major Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki aimed at the contemporary reader, both specialist and layman. The preserved mosaic decoration of the Rotonda, Hosios David, Ayia Sophia, Ayioi Apostoloi and the basilicas of Ayios Dimitrios and the Acheiropoietos is presented with lavish, high-quality illustrations and an elegant text that highlights the aesthetic values of the monuments. 360p, 358 col & 36 b/w illus (Kapon Editions, July 2012) hardcover, 9789606878367, $138.00. Special Offer $111.00 Contents: Prologue (Charalambos Bakirtzis); Introduction (Chrysanthi Mavropoulou-Tsioumi) Rotunda (Charalambos Bakirtzis & Eftychia Kourkoutidou-Nikolaïdou); Saint Demetrios (Charalambos Bakirtzis); Latomou Monastery (Eftychia Kourkoutidou-Nikolaïdou & Chrysanthi Mavropoulou-Tsioumi); Acheiropoietos (Eftychia Kourkoutidou-Nikolaïdou); Hagia Sophia (Chrysanthi Mavropoulou-Tsioumi); Holy Apostles (Chrysanthi Mavropoulou-Tsioumi); Bibliography Wandering in Byzantine Thessaloniki by E. Kourkoutidou-Nikolaïdou and A. Tourta This volume reveals the Byzantine face of the city to the modern visitor, through the marks stamped on it by 2,300 years of history. The text describes and evaluates all the most recent evidence for the Byzantine monuments of the city; together with the lavish illustrations, it offers an elegant account of the history of Byzantine civilization, enticing visitors along the major streets and narrow alleyways of the Upper town and introducing them, through the expertise of the specialist and the love of the admirer, to the enchantment of its unique monuments. Also available 224p, 219 col & 69 b/w illus, 8 maps (Kapon Editions, December 1997) paperback, 9789607254474, $36.00. Special Offer $29.00 70 Enterprise Drive, Suite 2 • Bristol, CT 06010, USA Distributor of phone: (+1) 860 584 6546 • fax: (+1) 860 516 4873 Scholarly Books www.isdistribution.com • [email protected] Ancient Mosaics Early Christian and Wallpaintings and Medieval Antiquities by Helen Whitehouse Mosaics and Wallpaintings in Roman Churches The 132 drawings catalogued document most of the major examples of by John Osborne ancient Roman pictorial art known and Amanda Claridge to seventeenth-century Rome. They This collection of drawings and include early finding such as the watercolours of the mosaics and Aldobrandini Wedding, the Nile mosaic wallpaintings of early medieval churches from Palestrina, tha marble pictures in Rome forms an important part of from the Basilica of Junius Bassus, and the Paper Museum, since it sheds later finds such as the Harbour Landscape (found in 1668) and the Tomb of much light on the nature and scope of antiquarianism in Italy at the time of Nasonii (1674). Detailed accounts are given of the discoveries, and a general the Counter-Reformation. The reproductions are generally in full color and introduction assesses the significance of the Cassiano assemblage within the frequently accompanied by illustrations showing the actual decoration in situ. wider context of contemporary antiquarian interest in ancient painting, its The introductory essays outline the important phases of Cassiano dal Pozzo’s collectors, and copyists. Cataogue entries describe and discuss the drawings career, discuss the history and significance of the ‘Paper Museum’, and explore in great detail, relating them to the original mosaics and wallpaintings as the Christian tradition in seventeeth-century Rome. The Catalogue Raisonnée they survive in their present state of preservation. All drawings catalogued analyses each drawing in the greatest detail. are reproduced, mostly on a large scale and mostly in full color. They are 384p, 152 col & 112 b/w illus (Harvey Miller Publishers, January 2000, The frequently accompanied by illustrations of the ancient originals. Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Series A: Antiquities and Architecture 2.1) 447p, 156 col & 99 b/w illus (Harvey Miller Publishers, September 2001, The hardcover, 9781872501628, $336.00. Special Offer $269.00 Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Series A: Antiquities and Architecture 1) hardcover, 9781872501574, $363.00. Special Offer $291.00 Early Christian and Medieval Antiquities Archaeological Campaigns Other Mosaics, Paintings, below the Florence Duomo Sarcophagi and Small Objects and Baptistery, 1895–1980 by John Osborne by Franklin Toker and Amanda Claridge The Florence Duomo Project is a study This volume focuses on material remains of everything that preceded, and still of post-classical culture in Rome and the lies beneath, S. Maria del Fiore and psychical inheritance from the earliest its Baptistery. It interweaves church centuries of Christianity. Catalogued liturgy, field archaeology, art history, here is a diverse and fascinating and social and political history to range of antiquities: reliefs, inscriptions, sarcophagi, sculpture, manuscript give the Florence Duomo its ancient illuminations, gold-glass, gems, ivories, lamps, metalwork and ‘instruments context. This volume gives order to the virtual encyclopedia of medieval of martyrdom’. The drawings were mainly collected by Carlo Antonio dal art and architecture found below both buildings: mosaics, frescoes, tomb Pozzo, Cassiano’s brother, in the later seventeeth century and include some of sculptures, armor, ceramics, the extensive layouts of a Roman house and an the finest examples of archaeological draughtsmanship of the period. Early Christian basilica and its Carolingian and Romanesque rebuildings. 336p, 106 col & 175 b/w illus (Harvey Miller Publishers, January 1998, The 536p, 124 col & 591 b/w illus (Harvey Miller Publishers, March 2013, The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Series A: Antiquities and Architecture 2.2) Florence Duomo Project 2) hardcover, 9781905375523, $254.00. hardcover, 9781872501673, $336.00. Special Offer $269.00 Special Offer $204.00 2 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 219–14 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 Brepols Publishers — Aarhus University Press Eternal Ravenna Patrons and Viewers From the Etruscans in Late Antiquity to the Venetians edited by Stine Birk by Massimiliano David and Birte Poulsen One of the most important cities in the Antiquity was a multi-cultural and multi- Mediterranean, Ravenna still boasts religious world. Meetings and interactions a series of monuments that have between cultures in East and West, and been exceptionally well-preserved, the consequent widespread exchange of and very often still have their original ideas had an enormous impact on cultural decorations, mosaics in particular. A practices and the creation of identities. combination of scientific rigor and These cultural diversities are reflected by clarity, this publication outlines the history and town planning of the city both the archaeological material and the written sources. Patrons of luxurious from its distant Etruscan origins to the battle that in 1512 changed its destiny buildings, elaborate grave monuments, and churches used architecture and once and for all, when it became part of the pontifical dominion. The whole images to demonstrate political, social and religious power. These buildings series of the lavish buildings that were constructed in late ancient times and and their embellishment with sculpture, mosaics and paintings were strong their decorations are studied from a critical, but updated profile and set in factors in communicating identity and attitudes both in the public and private the historical context and the complex urban situation. What emerges is a spheres. The volume focuses on the way patrons, pagan as well as Christian, Ravenna that is in many ways new, or at least radically renewed, with many conveyed messages through material culture and the responses of the viewers. surprises for even the most expert scholars. 320p (Aarhus University Press, December 2012, Aarhus Studies in 288p, 200 b/w illus (Brepols Publishers, September 2013) hardcover, Mediterranean Antiquity 10) hardcover, 9788779340114, $56.00. 9782503549415, $138.00. Special Offer $111.00 Special Offer $45.00 The Early Christian The Vatican Necropoles Monuments of Ravenna Rome’s City of the Dead Transformations and Memory by Paolo Liverani by Mariëtte Verhoeven and Giandomenico Spinola This study takes the transformations This is the first published summary of the of the monuments of Ravenna entire complex of the great necropoles as a starting point to explore the of Rome, which were situated on Vatican city’s attitude towards its religious Hill. The work concerns one of the most cultural heritage throughout the extensive, richest, and least-known centuries. Together with the local Roman archaeological phenomena and historiographical sources, they provide bears witness to the work of creating an a picture of the manner in which Ravenna experienced, appropriated, and underground museum that has been followed internationally as a model imagined its past. The findings are elaborated in seven chapters, addressing of conservation practice. From the submerged world of the necropoles the cult of saints; the relationship with Rome and Constantinople; the alleged emerges the funeral ‘normality’ of the Roman world, from poorer cremations controversy between Orthodoxy and Arianism; the post-Tridentine period; the in wooden