| #3073055 in Books | 2008-06-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 12.26 x.78 x9.69l,2.78 | File type: PDF | 144 pages||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A skillfully-written and visually arresting presentation.|By Andrew Alpern|Sheldon Barr is increasingly skilled in both writing and visual presentation in this addition to his impressive shelf of books and articles. He expands from his previous book on Venetian blown glass to the glass mosaic productions emanating from that city. He has told his story in parallel tracks of the|About the Author|Sheldon Barr, a graduate of Columbia College, has been a dealer and collector in the art glass field since 1967. Barr has written extensively on the subject.
This is the first comprehensive book on Venetian mosaics of the nineteenth century. It illustrates work by both the Salviati Company and the Venice and Murano Glass and Mosaic Company. A carefully researched work, Venetian Glass addresses the revival of the art of Venetian mosaic making in the mid-nineteenth century and discusses the complicity of both Antonio Salviati and Sir Austen Henry Layard in that revival. It is a comprehensive work, illustrating Salviati's earlie...
You easily download any file type for your device.Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917 | Sheldon Barr. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
