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The Apse Mosaic in Early Medieval Rome
Language: en
Pages: 598
Authors: Erik Thunø
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-20 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book focuses on apse mosaics in Rome, which were commissioned by a series of popes between the sixth and ninth centuries CE. Through a synchronic approach
The Apse Mosaic in Early Medieval Rome
Language: en
Pages: 361
Authors: Erik Thunø
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-20 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book focuses on apse mosaics in Rome and engages topics including time, intercession, materiality, repetition, and vision.
Image and Relic
Language: en
Pages: 302
Authors: Erik Thunø
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER

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Revision of the author's thesis (Johns Hopkins University, 1999).
Mosaics in the Medieval World
Language: en
Pages: 1748
Authors: Liz James
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-05 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In this book, Liz James offers a comprehensive history of wall mosaics produced in the European and Islamic middle ages. Taking into account a wide range of iss
The Apse, the Image and the Icon
Language: en
Pages: 218
Authors: Beat Brenk
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Reichert Verlag

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This book deals with the apse as a showcase for images in the early Christian and early Byzantine periods. Two opposed traditions, harking back to early imperia