Transformation is no less evident in the language we use (sometimes to Neither is available online, a lacuna thatįurther marks how expectations have changed since 2007. Terry and Maguire's superbly illustrated volumes are nowįollowed by the book at hand. Their Mosaics of Thessaloniki: 4th-14th Century. Maguire's two-volume Dynamic Splendor: The Wall Mosaics in theĬathedral of Eufrasius at Porec, followed in 2012 by Charalambosīakirtzis and Eftychia Kourkoutidou-Nikolaidou's long chapter in Theseīanner years began in 2007 with the publication of Ann Terry and Henry The other, the boom in the last decade of scholarship on mosaics. Since then much has happened: on the one hand the earthquake of 1978 on Scaffolding and survey at close hand what by then had been shored up.
Of these two volumes (and the author of this review), could climb the Sixty years ago, younger and sprightlier students, like the creator Stars, that contained what was probably a standing Christ. Survives a central medallion, ringed with paradisal vegetation and Most of those mosaics have vanished but there Vision of a fantastic architecture peopled with 16 saints, their armsĮxtended in prayer. Leaves the mosaics above in relative obscurity yet, at the same time, a
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