Tüskés Anna (szerk.): Omnis creatura significans - Tanulmányok Prokopp Mária 70. születésnapjára (2009)

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Omnis creatura significans

Fig. 6. Prague Cathedral. View of mosaic after cleaning and before regilding by the Getty Conservation Center

and Czech conservators.

which was set first? The figures or the gold ground?

All of these queries and comments concerning the Prague mosaic amount to a plea for thorough scientific and archaeological examination.45 An inventory of all the different materials used would be a good beginning (if this has not been done already). But the plea for Prague could just as well as be addressed to mosaics in Italy, Greece, Turkey and Russia. Clearly, we are only at the beginning of such studies.

Notes

* My thanks to Prof. Eliska Fucikova for photographs and for the Czech literature. As well as to my colleagues, Fiorella Gioffredi Superbi and Giovanni Pagliarulo for further help of all kinds.

1 Veritä, Marco: Tecniche di fabbricazione dei materiali musivi vitrei: indagini chimiche e miner- alogiche. In: Medieval Mosaics: Light, Color, Materials. Eds.: Eve Borsook, Fiorella Gioffredi Superbi and Giovanni Pagliarulo. Cinisello Balsamo, 2000, pp. 57, 6o.

2 Moioli, Pietro - Scarpé, Raffaele - Seccaroni, Claudio - Tognacci, Attilio: Studio delle paste vitree utilizzate nei mosaici della cappella del Sancta Sanctorum. In: Carlo Pietrangeli (ed.): Sancta Sanctorum. Milano, 1995, pp. 280-290. Up to 1957 no really satisfactory analysis had been made of ancient glass of any date from Rome or elsewhere in Italy; Caley, Earle R.: Analysis of Ancient Glass, 1790-1957. Coming, N.Y., 1962, pp. 13, 943 Fiori, C.: Studio della composizione e del degrado

dei materiali musivi dell’arco presbiteriale di S. Vitale a Ravenna. In: A.M. Iannucci et al (eds.): Mosaici a S. Vitale e altri restauri: il restauro in situ di mosaici parietali. Atti del Convegno, Ravenna 1-3 October 1990. Ravenna, 1992, pp. 43-53; Veritä, Marco: Analisi di tessere musive vitree del Battistero della Basilica di San Marco in Venezia. In: Ettore Vio and Antonio Lepschy (eds.): Scienza e tecnica del restauro della Basilica di San Marco. Atti del convegno internazionale di

studi, Venice 16-19 May 1995. Venice, 1999, II, PP-567-585.

4 Andreescu, Irina: Torcello III. La Chronologie relatives des mosáiques parietales. In: Dumbarton Oaks Papers No. 30 (1976), pp. 246-341; An- dreescu-Treadgold, Irina: The Mosaic Workshop at San Vitale. In: Iannucci et al (see note 3), 1992,

pp. 30-415 Matéjőek, Anton: Das Mosaikbild des Jüngsten

Gerichtes am Prager Domes. In: Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Institutes der K.K. Zentralkommission für Denkmalpflege, 9(1915), p. 118. See also: Seidel, Max: The Power of Images. Lucca as an Imperial City: political iconography. Munich - Berlin, 2007, passim. Charles visited Lucca for several months between 1368 and 1369.

6 Zecchin, Luigi: Vetro e vetrai di Murano. Studi sulla storia del vetro, 3 vols. Venice, 1987, 1989, 1990; Mendera, Marja: Produzione vitrea medie- vale in Italia e fabbricazione di tessere musive. In: Borsook et al (see note 1), 2000, pp. 132 ff; Borsook, Eve: Un mistero musivo. In: G. Fossi (ed.): Artifiorentine: la grande storia dell’artigianato. II medioevo. Firenze, 1998, pp. 164,169-171.

7 Borsook, Introduction, 2000 (see note 1), p. 12.

8 Novello, Roberto Paolo: I mosaici. In: A. Peroni (ed.): Mirabilia Italiae: Il Duomo di Pisa, III. Modena, 1995, p. 286 f. Mendera, 2000, p. 136 f.

9 Harding, C.D.: Faqade Mosaics of the Dugento and

Trecento in Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio. PhD. thesis, University of London, 1983, pp. 215-218.

10 Idem: Economic Dimensions in Art: Mosaic versus Wall Painting in Trecento Orvieto. In: P. Denley and C. Elam (eds.): Florence and Italy: Renaissance Studies in Honour of Nicolai Rubinstein. London, 1988, pp. 505-507; Idem: The Production of Medieval Mosaics: the Orvieto Evidence. In: Dumbarton Oaks Papers No. 43 (1989), pp. 76- 79; Riccetti, Lucio (ed.): II Duomo di Orvieto. Bari, 1988; Idem: ‘Fare di necessitá virtú’. L’uso delle tessere in ceramica nei mosaici del Duomo di Orvieto nei secoli XIV-XV. In: Francisci Osti, O. (ed.): Mosaics of Friendship: Studies in Art and History for Eve Borsook. Florence, 1999, pp. 61- 7411 Hettes, K.: La verrerie en Tchecoslovaque. Prague, 1958, pp. 3-4, and unpaginated diagram entitled “The Development of Glass-Making on the Territory of the Kingdom of Bohemia”; Hejdova, Dag- mar: Glassmaking in the Archaeological Finds in the Territory of Czechoslovakia. In: VIIe Congrés International du Verre, Brussels 1965, no. 248; Idem: In: Czechoslovak Glass Review, 12 (1966), p. 253; Philippe, Michel: Naissance de la Verrerie Moderne XIIe - XVF siécles. Turnhout, 1998.

12 MatéjCek, 1915, p. 107; Harding, 1988, p. 512.

13 Bertelli, Carlo: Rinascimento del Mosaico. In: C. Bertelu (ed.): Il Mosaico. 2nd ed. Milan, 1999, p. 225.

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