medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Well, Christopher, tricky or not, modern restorers can move mosaics
around quite effectively. Whether that might have been practicable in
the 12th century is another matter. I really don't know what the
situation might have been, but I tend to suspect that Schiller was
referring to the iconography rather than the actual tesserae. The only
'pre-modern' mosaics I know of that were moved about were miniature
mosaic icons, but I would not rule out the moving of large-scale
mosaics, most probably for symbolic reasons -- sort of like "belles
verrieres" in stained glass.
Cheers,
Jim
On 20/04/2011 1:10 PM, Christopher Crockett wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> From: Revd Gordon Plumb<[log in to unmask]>
>
>> Gertrud Schiller, Iconography of Christian Art p.100 has the following
> footnote:
>
>> The original apse mosaic dating from the end of the 4th century in S.
> Clemente in Rome was transferred from the lower to the upper church in 1126-8
> and was much restored and altered in the process.
>
>
> Jim, is this true (not that i don't believe you, Gordon, but i don't know
> Schiller at all) --was the actual *mosaic* itself "transferred" in the 12th
> c.?
>
> if so, do you know of any other [pre-modren] examples of a *mosaic* being
> moved from one place to another??
>
> a quite tricky thing to do, i should think.
>
> c
>
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