Basilica of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, Rome: details of Cosmati work decoration on the episcopal throne
Architect/Designer | di Cosma, Jacopo |
Artist/Photographer | Schultz, Robert Weir (1860-1951) |
Country | Italy |
City | Rome |
Subject Date | 1249 |
Image Date | 1888 |
View | Interior |
Style | Byzantine |
Medium | Drawing |
Library Reference | PA1094/LUT II/N/12(3) |
Orientation | Landscape |
Colour Info | Colour |
Credit | RIBA Collections |
Subject | Thrones ; Churches ; Mosaics |
NOTES: The Cosmati were a Roman family which included seven generations of architects, sculptors and workers in mosaic. Cosmatesque mosaic technique involved the elaborate inlaying of small triangles and rectangles of colored stones and glass mosaics into stone matrices or surfaces.
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