Cast Court, South Kensington Museum

Two architectural courts were designed by General Henry Scott in 1870 for the museum to house both cast reproductions of architectural elements, as well as some original pieces. The space opened in 1873. Salviati and Company made two mosaic reproductions that originally hung on the walls of the south-east Court.

The Good Shepherd is a copy of the lunette above the entrance of the Chapel of Galla Placida in Ravenna Italy originally from the 5th century.

The Salviati mosaic lunette on top right in the Weston Cast Court, 2016.

The original mosaic in Ravenna

The mosaic Figure of Christ is a copy from St. Mark's Basilica in Venice from the 13th century. It depicts the Savior giving a benediction (item 8036-1862), acquired by the museum in 1862 for 200BP, but which is now in storage. Salviati made another copy of a St. Mark's mosaic image of Christ for St. Augustine's College in Canterbury.

The museum also bought in 1864 a mosaic medallion of the head of St. John the Evangelist (item 797-1864) from Salviati for 25BP, but it is now also in storage.

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The Victoria and Albert Museum
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National Museum of Scotland

A mosaic reredos of The Last Supper, as well as a copy of a 9th century mosaic featuring the portrait of a saint were purchased by the museum - known at the time as the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art - at the 1873 Vienna Universal Exposition.

The mosaic is almost identical to the one made by Salviati in 1875 for the reredos in St. Andrew's Church, Earl's Colne.


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American Antiquarian Society

Edward Livingston Davis procured this mosaic portrait of Christopher Columbus by Salviati in Italy in 1878. Upon his return to the US, he presented it to the American Antiquarian Society, an organization founded in 1812 to preserve the cultural heritage of the colonies that eventually became the United States of America. The portrait was originally housed on the north partition of the Annex in the second Antiquarian Hall, on Lincoln Square at the corner of Highland Street, beside the Worcester County Courthouse. While the Hall was built in 1853 by architect Thomas H. Tefft, the Annex was added in 1878 by Stephen C. Earle.

After a new building was constructed in 1910, the mosaic's original ebony frame was removed and the portrait was set in plaster over the door in the society's Council Room of the third Antiquarian Hall.

Today, the Venetian mosaic portrait of Christopher Columbus hangs in the building's main Reading Room, among the society's many painted portraits.

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Information and photograph of the mosaic was provided by Lauren B. Hewes, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Graphic Arts at the American Antiquarian Society

Lecture Theater Facade, South Kensington Museum

Captain Francis Fowke of the Royal Military Engineers designed the South Kensington Museum in 1865.

The garden-side facade of the building that's now known as the Victoria and Albert Museum contains three mosaic roundels under the pediment depicting Poetry, Philosophy and History. The designs were based on drawings by Geoffrey Sykes, completed by James Gamble and Reuben Townroe after Sykes' death.

From left to right, Salviati made the roundel depicting Poetry, while History was made by Jesse Rust, and Philosophy by W.B. Simpson.

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Architectural History of the V&A 1862-63
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Ethnological Museum, Berlin

Located next to the Museum of Decorative Arts (also known as the Gropius Bau) at Koniggratzer Strasse 120 (now Stresemann Strasse), this museum was built in 1880-86 by architect Hermann Ende.

Otto Lessing designed cartoons of the (then) seven planets and the solar system, seasons, arts and industry, as well as phases of life which Salviati applied in mosaic to the ceiling of the circular entrance hall.

As with many of Berlin's buildings, this museum was also damaged in World War II. It served as the Museum of Pre- and Early History until 1961, when it was eventually razed.

In 1954

In 1961

The southeastern corner of Stresemann Strasse and Niederkirchner Strasse now contains a parking lot.

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Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 136.
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Royal Architectural Museum

The museum was established by a group of architectural professionals led by Sir G.G. Scott in 1851 and it occupied several locations including the South Kensington Museum until 1869. At that time, it moved into a former residence at 18 Bowling (or sometimes Bowley) Street that was renamed in 1870 to Tufton Street located behind the Dean's Yard at Westminster Abbey. Architects Ewan Christian and Joseph Clarke designed the new museum.

Illustration of the facade from an 1884 guide to the museum for students

All of the interior decorations were furnished gratuitously. Salviati decorated the head of a panel to the right in the lobby with Venetian mosaics after a design by Clayton and Bell. Unfortunately, an illustration of the mosaic could not be found.

1872-73 view of the casts of sculptural details displayed in the museum

The museum was disbanded in 1915 and the collections were dispersed mainly to the Victoria and Albert Museum. In 1916, the National Library for the Blind moved into the building, which was demolished and consequently rebuilt in 1935.

The building currently at the NW corner of Tufton and Great Peter Street.

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The Art Journal: The Illustrated Catalogue of the Industry of All Nations. 16. London: Virtue & Co., 1869. 285.
Thornbury, Walter and Edward Walford. Old and New London: Westminster and the western suburbs. London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, 1891. 36-37.
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Scheibler Palace, Lodz

This neo-Renaissance building was rebuilt in 1886-88 for Lodz's "Cotton King" Karl Wilhelm Scheibler .

The front elevation today.

The rear elevation before 1901.

Salviati decorated the fireplace mantle in Scheibler's office with a mosaic of a gypsy woman (or alternately called a Turkish woman).  A stand-alone, identical mosaic dated 1884 was sold in 2011 by a private collector in Connecticut for $32,500 through Christie's auction house.

The figure in the mosaic bears an uncanny resemblance to the woman in Pre-Raphaelite John William Waterhouse's 1873 painting "The Unwelcome Companion", including the tilt of her head and the shawl across her abdomen.

The building now houses the Lodz Film Museum, but a large part of the residence has also been preserved.


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Bedford, Neal. Lonely Planet: Poland. 2008. 126.
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Leighton House, Kensington

This former home of the painter Frederic, Lord Leighton has operated as a museum since 1929. George Aitchison designed the first part of the classical style building in 1864. Construction began two years later and lasted for thirty years.

A major extension in 1877-79 added an Arab Hall, which contains many objects from Leighton's extensive travels, as well as a mosaic frieze designed by Walter Crane. Crane based the designs of the hall on those of the palace at La Zisa in Palermo, Italy.

Salviati executed the mythological-themed gold mosaic work around 1881.

Salviati also made the mosaic portrait of Pisano in the Kensington Valhalla that was based upon an original painting by Leighton sometime after 1866.

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Wikipedia
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Museum of Decorative Arts, Berlin

Now known as the Martin-Gropius-Bau, this exhibition space was built in 1877-81 by Martin Gropius and Heino Schmieden to originally house the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts.

The building was damaged in World War II, but it was rebuilt in the 1960s.

The spaces between the windows on the top floor are adorned with Salviati mosaic from 1879-81. The allegorical figures were designed by Ernst Ewald and total 650 square feet.

 

 

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Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 127.
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Kindermann Palace, 137/139 Piotrkowska Street

The Italianate Renaissance style villa belonging to Polish textile magnate Julius Kindermann in Lodz was designed by Viennese architect Karl Seidl and local architect Gustav Landau-Gutenteger. It was built 1903 and currently houses an Art Gallery.

The allegorical mosaic frieze on the facade representing trade and industry is by Salviati from 1907 after a design by Alois Hans Schram.

Agriculture

Commerce and Shipping

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Kensington Valhalla

Commissioned for the South Court of what is today London's Victoria and Albert Museum, these mosaics were created by Salviati based upon original paintings by various contemporary artists as part of a 35 piece installation.

Benozzo Gozzoli designed by Edward Armitage (1865)

Apelles by Edward J. Poynter (1865)

Original cartoon for William of Wykeham (1866) by Richard Burchett

Wykeham (third from left), Hans Holbein (1868) by W.F. Yeames (third from right), Giorgione by Val Prinsep (second from right), and Sir Joshua Reynolds (1869) by H.W. Phillips (far right)

Fra Giacomo Da Ulma (c. 1868) by Nathaniel Westlake

Nicola Pisano by Frederic Leighton (after 1866)

Several of the panels can be seen in their original locations on the left in 1886.

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