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536: 79: 902: 106: 60: 733: 617: 17: 95: 185:, both of about the 320s. In contrast, the floors of Early Christian churches contained very little figurative art, no doubt largely because it was considered inappropriate to walk on sacred images. The church floors are mostly geometrical, with small images in compartments of animals and the like, whereas the most important villa floors may contain huge scenes with many figures. The major surviving exception is the floor of the Cathedral at 722: 443: 829: 938:, but towards the end of the 13th century Rome was once again able to produce fine mosaics with local teams. From this period, the artists responsible for their design begin to be known; they were primarily painters, and presumably mainly responsible for the design, working with specialist teams of mosaicists. The most significant of this first period are 265:
in compartments in a geometric framework in some sections, and in arrangements of foliage in others. Despite the efforts of art historians to extract Christian symbolism from these components, the assembly is essentially derived from pagan decorative schemes for grand buildings. The work is of very
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By about the 10th century, the ability to produce high-quality mosaic work had been lost in Italy, and the best work was created by teams despatched by Byzantine Emperors as diplomatic favours. In the late 11th century local craftsmanship began to revive, no doubt with some initial Byzantine input.
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in Venice was begun in 1061, and its walls have been entirely decorated with mosaic, often replaced, with work continuing until the 17th century. St Mark's is the largest of the remaining handful of buildings, in Ravenna, Sicily, Turkey and Greece, which retain the unique impact of a full mosaic
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interior. Some traces of mosaic from before a devastating fire in 1106 probably remain, but the majority of the original mosaics date from the following three centuries, though often heavily restored or entirely redone as copies. They move from a Byzantinesque style to a more
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Four churches in Rome have mosaics of saints near where their relics were held; these all show an abandonment of classical illusionism for large-eyed figures floating in space. Rome had been in Byzantine hands from 536-545, which may explain the change. They are
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believes that the early mosaics were created by local workshops aware of recent Byzantine work, and perhaps including, or trained by, Greeks. Whatever there may once have been, hardly any other mosaic work remains in the city.
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and many Italian mosaics were probably made by imported Greek-speaking artists and craftsmen, there are surprisingly few significant mosaics remaining in the core Byzantine territories. This is especially true before the
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have the only significant panels of secular mosaics to survive from the period, probably both of around 1170, both of which show considerable Islamic influence, though that may reflect the Byzantine style for such work.
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with a beardless Christ in white robes flanked by the apostles, as part of a much larger scheme, now remaining only in fragments. In one area the mosaic has fallen away to reveal the
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in 1132. Initially Greek craftsmen were imported, but later work appears to have been done, in a rather less refined style, by local craftsmen in the 1160s and 1170s.;
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retains a similar apse mosaic, now a reworking of 1299, following the 5th-century original. The triumphal arch has the earliest surviving monumental cycle of the
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had religious mosaics in its apse-like semi-dome which survive, now moved outside and very heavily restored. Five churches in Rome have mosaics from this period:
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on the west wall is of the same period; other mosaics in the cathedral are from the beginning of the 12th and perhaps the 11th centuries. The
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was begun in 1174 and has the largest area of mosaic from before 1200 to survive in Italy. The Palazzo Reale and the castle at
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with a standing, lightly bearded Christ with arm upraised. Some other scenes from the same period survive, heavily restored.
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and Helena. These mosaics decorate both the walls and ceilings of the church, depicting biblical scenes, mostly from the
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one. Later Renaissance additions are fortunately not over-prominent, as they are generally regarded as unhappy mistakes.
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Other relatively modest mosaics are found in several places, including a 5th-century domed ceiling in the baptistery of
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also has symbolic images, including a famous one of Christ as the sun god in his chariot. This subject also has the
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was also begun by Roger with Greek artists in the 1130s, but the full scheme of mosaics was never finished. The
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was the main military centre of Northern Italy, controlling the roads to the north, and the effective capital of
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with a tiled roof, above which a large cityscape of grand buildings can be seen. In the sky there are large
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retains its mosaics of 324-6 of various decorative designs with small birds, figures, pastoral scenes and
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Dunbabin, 236-250; Smith, David. in Henig, 135-7; Gale, 738;Adam, Jean-Pierre, tr. Anthony Mathews.
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with extensive mosaics of about 530 on the apse and triumphal arch. For the first time, the
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church in Palermo has mosaics from the same period, though in a slightly different style.
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and surrounding sites, where chances of survival were better than elsewhere. The famous
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In the 1220s, the Pope needed to ask Venice for craftsmen to execute the apse mosaic of
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conquest of Italy there was a new burst of production of major Roman mosaics in the
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high quality and in good condition, although restored. There is also a 5th-century
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walls, where 27 of an original 42 panels remain from a sequence of scenes from the
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Dale, 741. All are dated based on the reigns of the Pope who commissioned them.
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has an apse mosaic of 384-9 with an unusually complicated composition of the
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held over their heads by two female figures representing the church of the
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Desiderius ensured that monks learnt the skills of the Greek craftsmen.
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of birds, archers and lions are set around trees in geometric schemes.
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have few contemporary equivalents elsewhere. There were mosaics in the
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Boardman, 315. In fact they are "motifs conventional in floor-mosaic".
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Dale, 741; Dodwell, 4 describes the current version as merely a copy.
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has a late 12th-century apse mosaic of famous beauty of the standing
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has a similar, but 13th century, Virgin apse mosaic, as well as an
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has a large area of mosaics, probably from 432-440. They cover the
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in the world. Although the art style is especially associated with
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continue into the Late Antique period, including those at the
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Dale, Thomas E.A., "Mosaic", in Christopher Kleinhenz (ed),
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Dale, 741. The figure of the Virgin is now in Florence.
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The earliest remaining mosaics in the neighbourhood of
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and the whale, but no direct depictions of Christ. The
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arch), and sections, originally much larger, of the
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Basilica of San Vitale
Ravenna
Late Antique
medieval
mosaics
Byzantine art
Byzantine Iconoclasm

the villa at Piazza Armerina
Sicily

Jonah
Aquileia

Santa Costanza

Santa Pudenziana
Roman mosaic
Ancient Greek art § Mosaics
Hellenistic art § Paintings and mosaics
Mosaics of Delos
Nero
Domus Aurea
Pompeii
Alexander Mosaic
frescos
baths
nymphaeum
archaeology

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