| Preface |
|
v | |
| Contributors |
|
vi | |
|
Illustration Acknowledgements |
|
|
ix | |
|
1 Glass Mosaic Tesserae from the 5th to 6th Century Baptistery of San Giovanni alle Fonti, Milan, Italy |
|
|
1 | (10) |
|
Analytical Investigations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2 Glass Tesserae from the Petra Church |
|
|
11 | (14) |
|
|
|
3 Studies in Middle Byzantine Glass Mosaics from Amorium |
|
|
25 | (8) |
|
|
|
4 Mosaic Tesserae from the Basilica of San Severo and Glass Production in Classe, Ravenna, Italy |
|
|
33 | (9) |
|
|
|
5 The Observation and Conservation of Mosaics in Ravenna in the 5th and 6th Centuries |
|
|
42 | (11) |
|
|
|
|
|
53 | (7) |
|
The 6th-century Mosaics of Hagia Sophia and Late Antique Aesthetics |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
60 | (10) |
|
Mosaics from the 5th and 6th Centuries in Ravenna and Porec |
|
|
|
|
|
8 A Study of Glass Tesserae from Mosaics in the 70 Monasteries of Daphni and Hosios Loukas |
|
|
70 | (6) |
|
|
|
9 Notes on the Morphology of the Gold Glass Tesserae from Daphni Monastery |
|
|
76 | (6) |
|
|
|
|
|
10 Glass Producers in Late Antique and Byzantine Texts and Papyri |
|
|
82 | (7) |
|
|
|
11 On the Manufacture of Diatreta and Cage Cups from the Pharos Beaker to the Lycurgus Cup |
|
|
89 | (14) |
|
|
|
|
|
103 | (9) |
|
|
|
13 Making Late Antique Gold Glass |
|
|
112 | (9) |
|
|
|
14 Gold Glass in Late Antiquity |
|
|
121 | (10) |
|
Scientific Analysis of the British Museum Collection |
|
|
|
|
|
15 Late Antique Glass Pendants in the British Museum |
|
|
131 | (47) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
16 A Scientific Study of Late Antique Glass Pendants in the British Museum |
|
|
178 | (11) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
17 The Production and Uses of Glass in Byzantine Thessaloniki |
|
|
189 | (10) |
|
|
|
18 `To Beautify Small Things' |
|
|
199 | (8) |
|
Minutiae and Majesty in the Mosaics of Parentium |
|
|
|
|
|
19 Experiencing the Light |
|
|
207 | (10) |
|
Byzantine Church Window Glass and the Aesthetics of Worship |
|
|
|
|
|
20 New Light on the `Bright Ages' |
|
|
217 | (12) |
|
Experiments with Mosaics and Light in Medieval Rome |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
229 | (5) |
|
Talking about the Mosaics at Porta Panagia in Thessaly, Greece |
|
|
|
|
|
22 Borders of Experimentalism |
|
|
234 | (8) |
|
Glass in the Frame of the Genoa Mandylion |
|
|
|
|
|
23 Viewing the Mosaics of the Monasteries of Hosios Loukas, Daphni and the Church of Santa Maria Assunta, Torcello |
|
|
242 | (12) |
|
|
|
24 The Abbot Philotheos, Founder of the Katholikon of Hosios Loukas |
|
|
254 | (6) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
25 Recording Byzantine Mosaics in 19th-century Greece |
|
|
260 | (11) |
|
The Case of the Byzantine Research Fund (BRF) Archive |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
26 The Christ Head at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Apse in the Bode Museum, Berlin, and Other Fake Mosaics |
|
|
271 | (20) |
|
Irina Andreescu-Treadgold |
|
|
27 Alexandria on the Barada |
|
|
291 | (19) |
|
The Mosaics of the Great Mosque in Damascus |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
310 | (19) |
|
Some Preliminary Evidence from the Leverhulme Database |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
29 Early Islamic and Byzantine Silver Stain |
|
|
329 | (9) |
|
|
|
|
|
30 Victorian or Justinianic? Painter or Practitioner? In Situ or Reverse? |
|
|
338 | (12) |
|
The Mosaicing of Westminster Cathedral |
|
|
|
|
| Glossary |
|
350 | |