Title & Author:

A lost art rediscovered : the architectural ceramics of Byzantium / edited by Sharon E.J. Gerstel and Julie A. Lauffenburger.

Publication:

Baltimore : Walters Art Museum ; University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2001.

Description:

xvii, 318 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Published in connection with an exhibition at the Walters Art Museum.
Catalogue published in connection with an exhibition held at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, including works chiefly in the collection of the museum.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Sharon E.J. Gerstel -- Ninth- to Eleventh-Century Constantinople: The Cultural Context / Cyril Mango -- Polychrome Tiles Found at Istanbul: Typology, Chronology, and Function / Marlia Mundell Mango -- Ceramic Icons from Medieval Constantinople / Sharon E.J. Gerstel -- Technical Insights into the Working Practices of the Byzantine Tile Maker / Julie A. Lauffenburger, Christine Vogt, Anne Bouquillon -- Introduction to the Ornamental Tiles / Jeffrey C. Anderson -- Tiles, Books, and the "Church like a Bride Adorned with Pearls and Gold" / Jeffrey C. Anderson -- The Vagaries of a Motif and Other Observations on Ornament / William Tronzo -- Tiles and Tribulations: A Community of Clay Across Byzantium and Its Adversaries / Anthony Cutler -- Catalogue of Tiles from Sites in Constantinople and in Collections -- Great Palace -- Hospital of Sampson -- Istanbul Archaeological Museum -- Istanbul Law Court -- Kyriotissa Church (Kalenderhane Camii) -- Constantine Lips (Fenari Isa Camii) -- Atik Mustafa Pasa Camii -- Myrelaion (Bodrum Camii) -- Saint Euphemia -- Saint George of the Mangana -- Saint John Stoudios (Imrahor Camii) -- Saint Polyeuktos -- Topkapi Sarayi Basilica -- Zeuxippos Baths -- Botaneiates Palace Church -- Istanbul, Provenance Unknown -- Haydarpasa -- Beykoz -- Koimesis Church (Hyakinthos Monastery), Nicaea -- Nicomedia -- Uskubu -- The Great Mosque at Cordoba -- Cherson -- The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore -- Musee du Louvre, Paris -- Musee National de Ceramique, Sevres -- Benaki Museum, Athens.

Summary:

During the tenth and eleventh centuries, luxurious Byzantine buildings were enriched by colorful ceramic tiles decorated with an impressive range of figural and ornamental patterns. Despite their widespread use, traces of this important decorative medium have, for the most part, disappeared. Relegated to museum storerooms, hidden in private collections, buried under layers of construction, and eclipsed by more durable media, polychrome tiles have until now been denied their full role in our understanding of Byzantine decoration and aesthetics.
A Lost Art Rediscovered includes a fully illustrated catalogue of all known tiles produced in the region of Constantinople, including the substantial collection owned by the Walters Art Museum, as well as those belonging to museums and private collections around the world. Some tiles included in the catalogue are now lost; the discovery of others is reported here for the first time. A series of scholarly essays gives the ceramics their rightful place in the study of Byzantine art and treats aspects of patronage, manufacture, function, ornament, and cultural significance. This comprehensive publication heralds the first large-scale, permanent installation of the Byzantine tiles in the collection of the Walters Art Museum. Book jacket.

ISBN:

027102139X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780271021393 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0271021438
9780271021430

Subject:

Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Md.) Catalogs.
Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Md.)
Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Md.) Collections.
Tiles, Byzantine Turkey Istanbul Catalogs.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural Turkey Istanbul Catalogs.
Tiles Maryland Baltimore Catalogs.
Décoration et ornement architecturaux Catalogues Turquie İstanbul.
Carreaux Catalogues Maryland Baltimore.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural.
Tiles.
Tiles, Byzantine.
Keramiek.
Tegels.
Bouwkunst.
Tiles, Byzantine Turkey Istanbul.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural Turkey Istanbul.
Maryland Baltimore.
Turkey Istanbul.

Form/genre:

Catalog
Catalogs.
catalogs (documents)
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Gerstel, Sharon E. J.
Lauffenburger, Julie A.
Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Md.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 219226
Call No.: NA2985 .L6 2001
Status: Available