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Mosaics
Origins and development
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MOSAIC
Latin word “musàicus” - Muse muses were worshiped in caves
7th century spread in Greece and in Asia Minor
4th and 5th centuries: decoration of floors and walls whit black and white tesseras
2nd century spread of multicoloured tesseras
Second half of the 1st century use of molten glass tesseras
The presence of large floors with
polychrome mosaics in the Middle Ages
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Technique of Molten Glass
Preparation in thin plates adding coloured pigment to the glass
Cut by hand
Subsequently the tesseras in
gold background
Interposition on a thin gold layer
Tesseras Different sizes
Pressed onto fresh plaster
Slightly distant one from the other
Applied onto covered drawing
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• 10° century - The Normans, settled in present Normandy
• 11° century – The Normans arrive in southern Italy • Foundation of Anversa
• Altavilla family conquers southern Italy
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• 1088 - Roger II founded the Reign of Sicily
• Replacement of ancient clothes with luxurious clothes of Byzantine’s kings.
Crowning of Roger II
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• Roger II receives the crown of Sicily from Jesus • Roger II - byzantine and regal clothes
• The traditional iconography of the Norman king is abandoned • Bayeux tapestry witnesses the synthesis between Northern European and Latin populations
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• Cooperation between Arab and Byzantine workmen
Geometric forms
Iconographic representations
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Ivan o Camera dello scirocco
del Palazzo dello Scibene, 1130
1154, Palermo
San Giovanni degli Eremiti,
1136, Palermo
Cristo Pantocratore del
Duomo di Cefalù, seconda
metà del XII sec.
Castello della Zisa, 1165, Palermo.
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Soffitto della Chiesa di S.
Cataldo Decorazione a muqarnas della
Cuba
Fontana del Chiostro di
Monreale Abside della Cattedrale
di Palermo
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• Male clothing – classical and eastern characteristics
• Female clothing - jewelled and golden veil; clerical tunic
Jacob’s departure, particolare dei mosaici
del Duomo di Monreale, seconda metà del
XII sec.
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• Byzantine characteristics:
tunic with jewelled decorations
short on knees
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• The Virgin – large and gold mantle; tunic with snug sleeves and cuffs adorned with golden embroidery
• Giorgio Antiocheo – gold hemmed tunic; golden mantle made of silk