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Caddeddi on the Tellaro

Author : Roger John Anthony Wilson
Publisher : Peeters
ISBN 13 : 9789042933880
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Caddeddi on the Tellaro written by Roger John Anthony Wilson and published by Peeters. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Roman villa of Caddeddi, near Noto in south-east Sicily, first came to light over forty years ago. Built in the second half of the fourth century AD, it is chiefly known for its three figured mosaic pavements, which after careful restoration in Syracuse were returned to the site prior to its opening to the public in 2008. This book describes in detail these and other pavements at Caddeddi, and concludes that, as at the more famous villa of Casale near Piazza Armerina a generation before, they are likely to be the work of North African mosaicists fulfilling an overseas commission for the villa's owner. The book attempts to place the mosaics and the villa itself in their wider Sicilian and Mediterranean context, with discussion ranging over such topics as late Roman villas elsewhere in Sicily, the iconography of myth and personification, peacock-feather helmets, the participation of the military in the Roman animal trade, the parallels between the mosaic floors of Caddeddi and those of Roman North Africa, the development of a new Roman saddle type in the fourth century, and military footwear fashionable at the same time. Of particular note are the 197 illustrations, 184 of them in full colour, which highlight the vividness and vivacity, as well as the polychromatic variety, of these stunning late Roman mosaics.

Byzantine Mosaics in Norman Sicily

Author : Adele Cilento
Publisher : Magnus
ISBN 13 : 9788870573022
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis Byzantine Mosaics in Norman Sicily by : Adele Cilento

Download or read book Byzantine Mosaics in Norman Sicily written by Adele Cilento and published by Magnus. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sicily is famous for the spectacular mosaics found in its magnificent palaces, chapels and cathedrals. Commissioned during the twelfth century by Sicily's Norman rulers and largely the work of Greek-speaking mosaicists brought to Sicily from Constantinople, these mosaics are among the most beautiful examples of Byzantine art in existence. A brief historical introduction about Byzantine, Arab and Norman domination and the spread of Byzantine art in Sicily is followed by three chapters dedicated to the greatest examples of Byzantine influence in Palermo, Cefalù and Monreale. With more than 175 color photographs, this extensively illustrated book provides a fascinating look at these mosaics. There are many close-ups, along with breathtaking views of interior spaces. Text in English and Italian.

The Mosaics of Norman Sicily

Author : Otto Demus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780878173105
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (731 download)

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Download or read book The Mosaics of Norman Sicily written by Otto Demus and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mosaics with Rosano (a Beginner's Guide to Creating Artful Mosaics)

Author : Aureleo Rosano
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9780359246335
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Mosaics with Rosano (a Beginner's Guide to Creating Artful Mosaics) written by Aureleo Rosano and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beginning yet thorough mosaic course with master mosaic artist Aureleo Rosano of Tucson, Arizona. Lessons and explanations about glass, grout, surfaces and techniques, with a bit of history and some cultural moments. Full color photos and demonstrations throughout.

Rick Steves Sicily

Author : Rick Steves
Publisher : Rick Steves
ISBN 13 : 1641711035
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Rick Steves Sicily written by Rick Steves and published by Rick Steves. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swim in the sparkling Mediterranean, marvel at the peak of Mount Etna, and get to know this region's timeless charm: with Rick Steves on your side, Sicily can be yours! Inside Rick Steves Sicily you'll find: Comprehensive coverage for spending a week or more exploring Sicily Rick's strategic advice on how to get the most out of your time and money, with rankings of his must-see favorites Top sights and hidden gems, from Mount Etna and the Byzantine mosaics of Monreale to the Ballarò street market and Siracusa's puppet museum How to connect with culture: Savor seafood-centric cuisine made from ancient recipes, catch an opera performance at the Teatro Massimo, or sample authentic Marsala wine Beat the crowds, skip the lines, and avoid tourist traps with Rick's candid, humorous insight The best places to eat, sleep, and relax with a glass of local Nero d'Avola Self-guided walking tours of lively neighborhoods and incredible museums Detailed maps for exploring on the go Useful resources including a packing list, a historical overview, and useful Italian phrases Over 350 bible-thin pages include everything worth seeing without weighing you down Complete, up-to-date information on Palermo, Cefalù, Trapani and the West Coast, Agrigento and the Valley of the Temples, Ragusa and the Southeast, Catania, Taormina, and more Make the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves Sicily.

The Dangerously Truthful Diary of a Sicilian Housewife

Author : Veronica Di Grigoli
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781514802250
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Dangerously Truthful Diary of a Sicilian Housewife written by Veronica Di Grigoli and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When career-girl Veronica flies to Sicily for a friend's wedding, she accidentally falls in love with one of the groom's three-hundred cousins. A year later she has given up her job, house and friends, and is planning her own wedding with her Latin Lover in the shimmering heat of Sicily.

Sicily

Author : Cleveland Museum of Art
Publisher : J Paul Getty Museum Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781606061336
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Sicily written by Cleveland Museum of Art and published by J Paul Getty Museum Publications. This book was released on 2013 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of the exhibition Sicily: art & invention between Greece and Rome, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa in Malibu, from April 3 to August 19, 2013; at the Cleveland Museum of Art from September 30, 2013 to January 5, 2014; and at Palazzo Ajutamicristo, Palermo, from February 14 to June 15, 2014.

The Invention of Sicily

Author : Jamie Mackay
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786637766
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Sicily written by Jamie Mackay and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you’re vacationing in Italy or simply an armchair traveler, this guide to the Mediterranean island of Sicily is a dazzling introduction to the region’s rich 3,000-year history and culture. A rich and fascinating cultural history of the Mediterranean’s enigmatic heart Sicily is at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, and for over 2000 years has been the gateway between Europe, Africa and the East. It has long been seen as the frontier between Western Civilization and the rest, but never definitively part of either. Despite being conquered by empires—Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, Hapsburg Spain—it remains uniquely apart. The island’s story maps a mosaic that mixes the story of myth and wars, maritime empires and reckless crusades, and a people who refuse to be ruled. In this riveting, rich history Jamie Mackay peels away the layers of this most mysterious of islands. This story finds its origins in ancient myth but has been reinventing itself across centuries: in conquest and resistance. Inseparable from these political and social developments are the artefacts of the nation’s cultural patrimony—ancient amphitheaters, Arab gardens, Baroque Cathedrals, as well as great literature such as Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s masterpiece The Leopard, and the novels and plays of Luigi Pirandello. In its modern era, Sicily has been the site of revolution, Cosa Nostra and, in the twenty-first century, the epicenter of the refugee crisis.

Sicilian Odyssey

Author : Francine Prose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1426209088
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Sicilian Odyssey written by Francine Prose and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blending of art and cultural criticism, travel writing, and personal narrative, Sicilian Odyssey is Francine Prose's imaginative consideration of the diverse cultural legacies found juxtaposed and entangled on the Mediterranean island of Sicily. She writes of the intensity of Sicily, the "commitment to the extreme," where the history is more colorful, the sun hotter, the cooking earthier, the violence more horrific, the carnival more raucous, the politics more Byzantine than other places on Earth, and how much the island can teach us about the triumph of beauty over violence and life over death. Prose examines architectural sites and objects and looks at the ways in which myth and actuality converge. Exploring the intact and beautiful Greek amphitheaters at Siracusa and Taormina, the cathedral at Monreale, the Roman mosaics at Piazza Armerina, and some of the masterpieces of the Baroque scattered throughout the island, Prose focuses her keen insight to imagine them in their own time, to examine the evolution and decline of the cultures that produced them, and to deconstruct powerful responses each evokes in her.

The Roman Villa in the Mediterranean Basin

Author : Annalisa Marzano
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316730611
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book The Roman Villa in the Mediterranean Basin written by Annalisa Marzano and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a comprehensive survey of Roman villas in Italy and the Mediterranean provinces of the Roman Empire, from their origins to the collapse of the Empire. The architecture of villas could be humble or grand, and sometimes luxurious. Villas were most often farms where wine, olive oil, cereals, and manufactured goods, among other products, were produced. They were also venues for hospitality, conversation, and thinking on pagan, and ultimately Christian, themes. Villas spread as the Empire grew. Like towns and cities, they became the means of power and assimilation, just as infrastructure, such as aqueducts and bridges, was transforming the Mediterranean into a Roman sea. The distinctive Roman/Italian villa type was transferred to the provinces, resulting in Mediterranean-wide culture of rural dwelling and work that further unified the Empire.

Mosaics, Empresses and Other Things in Byzantium

Author : Liz James
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040098002
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Mosaics, Empresses and Other Things in Byzantium written by Liz James and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of 15 articles published between 1991 and 2018. It falls into three sections, reflecting different areas of Liz James’s interests. The first section deals with light and colour and mosaics: four articles considering light and colour in mosaics and the making of mosaics, as well as the question of what it means to define mosaics as ‘Byzantine’ are reprinted. The second brings together four pieces on empresses: their relationships with female personifications and the Mother of God; their roles in founding and refounding buildings; and their employment as ciphers by some authors. Finally, seven papers cover a range of topics: what monumental images of saints in churches might have been for; what the differences between relics and icons might have been; how captions to images can be misleading; why touch was an important sense; how words can sometimes ‘just’ be decorative rather than for reading; why the materiality of objects makes a difference. There is also a brief section of additional notes and comments which add to, update and reflect on each piece now in 2024. Mosaics, Empresses and Other Things in Byzantium will be of interest to scholars and students alike interested in material culture, the depiction of regal women, and the use of relics and icons in the Byzantine Empire.

Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World

Author : Katherine M. D. Dunbabin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521002301
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World written by Katherine M. D. Dunbabin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive account of mosaics in the ancient world from the early pebble mosaics of Greece to the pavements of Christian churches in the East. Separate chapters in Part I cover the principal regions of the Roman Empire in turn, in order to bring out the distinctive characteristics of their mosaic workshops. Questions of technique and production, of the role of mosaics in architecture, and of their social functions and implications are treated in Part II. The book discusses both well-known works and recent finds, and balances consideration of exceptional masterpieces against standard workshop production. Two main lines of approach are followed throughout: first, the role of mosaics as a significant art form, which over an unbroken span illuminates the evolution of pictorial style better than any comparable surviving medium; and secondly, their character as works of artisan production closely linked to their architectural context.

Palmento

Author : Robert V. Camuto
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 080323399X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Palmento written by Robert V. Camuto and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by a deep passion for wine, an Italian heritage, and a desire for a land somewhat wilder than his home in southern France, Robert V. Camuto set out to explore Sicily's emerging wine scene. What he discovered during more than a year of traveling the region, however, was far more than a fascinating wine frontier.

Designing Norman Sicily

Author : Emily A. Winkler
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781783274895
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Designing Norman Sicily written by Emily A. Winkler and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays showing how the stuff of Norman Sicily, its mosaics, frescoes, art and architecture, was used to construct its history.

Authentic Sicily

Author : Touring Club of Italy
Publisher : Touring Editore
ISBN 13 : 9788836534036
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Authentic Sicily written by Touring Club of Italy and published by Touring Editore. This book was released on 2005 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her stepfather dies, Lois Cayley finds herself alone in the world with only twopence in her pocket. Undaunted, the intelligent, attractive, and infinitely resourceful young woman decides to set off in search of adventure. Her travels take he...

The Mosaics of St. Mary's of the Admiral in Palermo

Author : Ernst Kitzinger
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN 13 : 9780884021797
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book The Mosaics of St. Mary's of the Admiral in Palermo written by Ernst Kitzinger and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1990 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text explores the iconographic and stylistic sources of the Greek mosaicists, as well as the departures from Byzantine norms, and the relationship of the decoration to contemporary work in the royal foundations. Also included is a chapter on the architecture of the church by Slobodan Çurciç.

Trinacria, 'An Island Outside Time'

Author : Christopher Prescott
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789255929
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Trinacria, 'An Island Outside Time' written by Christopher Prescott and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trinacria, the ancient name for Sicily extending back to Homeric Greek, has understandably been the focus of decades of archaeological research. Recognizing Sicily’s rich prehistory and pivotal role in the history of the Mediterranean, Sebastiano Tusa - professor, head of heritage agencies and councillor for Cultural Heritage for the Sicilian Region - promoted the exploration of the island’s heritage through international collaboration. His decades of fostering research initiatives not only produced rich archaeological results spanning the Palaeolithic to the modern era but brought scholars from a range of schools and disciplines to work together in Sicily. Through his efforts, uniquely productive methodological, theoretical and interpretative networks were created. Their impact extends far beyond Sicily and Italy. To highlight these networks and their results, the Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, the Swedish Institute in Rome, the Norwegian Institute in Rome, the British School at Rome and the Assessorato dei Beni Culturali of Sicily, with generous support from the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, assembled this anthology of papers. The aim is to present a selection of the work of and results from contemporary, multi-national research projects in Sicily. The collaboration between the Sicilian and international partners, often in an interdisciplinary framework, has generated important results and perspectives. The articles in this volume present research projects from throughout the island. The core of the articles is concerned with the Archaic through to the Roman period, but diachronic studies also trace lines back to the Stone Age and up to the contemporary era. A range of methods and sources are explored, thus creating an up-to-date volume that is a referential gateway to contemporary Sicilian archaeology.