Showing posts with label Funerary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Funerary. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Funerary Monuments in Croatian Cemeteries

Ivan Rendic was a Croatian sculptor who studied in Italy - including in Venice - and later worked extensively out of Trieste. He made numerous funerary monuments in the cemeteries around Rijeka (including Kozala, Trsat-Susak, Opatija and Bakar), some of which Salviati also decorated with enamel mosaics. A catalog prepared for the 1893 World Columbian Exposition does not detail exactly which memorials Salviati worked on (and erroneously lists Trieste as the location of the cemeteries), but the following examples were all made by Rendic before 1893 and are embellished with mosaics.


The interior of the Gorup family mausoleum from 1882 in Rijeka's Kozala cemetery. Josip Gorup had the memorial built after the death of his wife in childbirth, and the carved relief shows the separation of a mother from her eight children.


The Devet/Spilar-Ambrozic memorial from 1885 in the Kozala cemetery.


The Pilepic monument from 1890.


The Stiglich family tombstone from 1891.

The Bakarcic monument from 1892 in the Kozala cemetery.

Sources:
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2005. 126.
Metzger-Sober, Branko. "Funerary Monuments by Ivan Rendic in the Croatian Littoral." Ars Adriatica. 3. Dec 2013.
Wikipedia

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Krause Family Tomb

Friedrich Wilhelm von Krause was a Berlin wine merchant, banker, and industrialist who died in 1877. His family tomb (for Wilhelm and his wife Flora) was designed by Friedrich Hitzig, who previously designed both Krause's palace on Leipziger Platz and the Berlin Stock Exchange.





The mosaics, designed by Karl Gottfried Pfannschmidt and Anton von Werner, were executed by Salviati and cover 500 square feet. Von Werner previously designed the monumental mosaics on the rotunda of the Berlin Victory Column.






Sources:
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 127.
Bedoire,  Fredric. The Jewish Contribution to Modern Architecture: 1830-1930. Jersey City, NJ: KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 2004. 219.
Pagewizz
mitue's flickr Photostream
Cemetery II of Trinity Church
Friedhof Ansichten
Friedhofsfinder
Stadtentwicklung Berlin
Arkitekur Museum
Berlin Intensiv

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Cimitero Monumentale, Milan

An extensive amount of mosaic decorates Milan's famous cemetery, which opened in 1866 and was designed by Carlo Maciachini. The facade of the Famedio or Monumental Chapel, built 1875-87, has Salviati mosaic lunettes designed by Lodovico Pogliaghi.





A picture representing Christ giving his benediction was made for Albert Amman to top the door to his family's tomb.



Salviati mosaics also decorate the chapels and tombs of the Visconti, Frova, Trua and Albertario families, shrines made for Goldfinger, Bonomi, Mariani, as well as at least 62 other sepuchral monuments. The examples below are likely to be by Salviati.










Sources:
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 127, 131 & 134.
Comune Milano
Paco Alfonso's flickr Photostream
Something edited this way comes
Wikipedia
Heiskanen's flickr Photostream
PIG sty's flickr Photostream
Lisa Solomon's flickr Photostream
Megan C.'s flickr Photostream
Christis Loizou's flickr Photostream
123RF 
Callassino on YouTube
Etruscanwarrior on YouTube

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Herlitzka Tomb, Recoleta Cemetery

Engineer Mauro Herlitzka was born in Trieste in 1871, but moved to Argentina at age 26. He rose to prominence first in the electrical industry, then telecommunications. His neo-Byzantine family vault built in 1920 is located in Buenos Aires' Recoleta Cemetery, plot 442.


Salviati mosaics decorate both the interior and exterior of this sepulchral monument.



Sources:
AfterLife
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 139.
Find a Grave
Buenos Aires Walking Tours

Monday, April 8, 2013

Poznanski Mausoleum, Lodz

Izrael Poznanski, a local textile magnate, donated 10.5 hectares of his own land to the city of Lodz in order to build a new Jewish cemetery in 1891 after the original "Old Cemetery" of 1811 proved to be too small. Since then, it has become the biggest Jewish cemetery in Europe.


Poznanski died in 1900 and along with his wife Eleanora, is entombed in this grand, open-air mausoleum resembling a Greek temple that was designed by architect Adolf Seligsohn of the Berlin firm Cremer and Wolffenstein. It was built 1903-05.


The oriental-style mosaics found in the dome were restored in 1993.

Sources:
Wikipedia
Wikipedia DA
A Virtual Tour of Jewish Lodz 
Magic Madzik's flickr Photostream
ZzZachary's flicrk Photostream
Jewish Community of Lodz
Centrum Dialogu
Bedoire, Frederic. The Jewish Contribution to Modern Architecture: 1830-1930. Jersey City: KTAV Publishing, Inc., 2004. 404, 412.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Mausoleum of the von Gans Family, Frankfurt

Built by industrialist and art collector Friedrich (Fritz) von Gans in 1909, this is the largest family mausoleum in the Central Frankfurt Cemetery. It was designed by Friedrich Christoph Hausmann based on the Tempietto found in the Church of S. Pietro in Montorio in Rome.


Salviati decorated the interior of the dome with a dark, mosaic night sky, including dozens of golden stars.



Sources:
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 136.
S. Ruehlow's flickr Photostream
Wikimedia Commons
Wikipedia von Gans
Wikipedia Hauptfriedhof

Monday, February 11, 2013

Drake Family Mausoleum

Also located in Brookwood Cemetery like Giulio Salviati's grave, this structure in plot 31 is the final resting place of Sir William Drake (1817-90).


Drake was a lawyer involved in the formation of the Anglo-Italian partnership of Salviati and Co. in 1869, along with Antonio Salviati, Sir Austen Henry Layard and several others. The mausoleum was built in 1880 after the death of Drake's wife. It was decorated with an enamel glass mosaic frieze that has almost completely deteriorated. The frieze once read "Because I Live Ye Shall Live Also."



Sources:
British Listed Buildings
The Mausolea and Monuments Trust
Brookwood Cemetery
Brookwood Cemetery Restoration
Richardr's flickr Photostream
Robert Freidus on Victorian Web

Friday, January 25, 2013

Funerary Monument of Giulio Salviati

Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey, England contains the grave of Antonio Salviati's son Giulio Salviati who was born in Naples in 1843 and died on March 4, 1898. Misidentified as Luigi Salviati by the New York Times, the master glass maker - whose father's accomplishments were mistakenly attributed to him by the paper - had committed suicide at the age of 55.



The four sided, obelisk-like base contains the Salviati company's trademark enamel mosaics. It was erected to Giulio by his widow Henriette.



Sources:
New York Times
Murano Magic
tanyajane100's flickr Photostream
mira66's flickr Photostream