This school was founded in 1866, but its present facility wasn't built until 1897-98.
The architecture and decoration of the building - including the facade mosaics by Salviati - is an almost replica of the Roman Voda Lyceum (Colegiul National Roman Voda) in the city of Roman and the Unirea Lyceum in Focsani (Colegiul National Unirea).
Sources:
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 138.
Colegiul National "Ion C. Braianu"
Friday, October 18, 2013
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Portraits
Although not architectural decorations, these mosaic portraits by Salviati - arguably the most famous ones made by the company - deserve a mention.
Prince Albert, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (1864). In 1866, Queen Victoria gifted to the museum this Salviati mosaic medallion depicting the late Prince Consort Albert (item 261-1866). Made by artist Enrico Podio in Salviati's workshop in 1864, this piece is on display in room 131.
The city of Venice gifted two portraits to the City of Genoa shortly after the former joined the Kingdom of Italy.
Marco Polo, Municipal Palace of Genoa: Palazzo Grimaldi Doria-Tursi (1867)
Christopher Columbus, Municipal Palace of Genoa: Palazzo Grimaldi Doria-Tursi (1867)
Antonio Salviati personally gifted two presidential portraits to the United States Congress.
Abraham Lincoln, US Senate, Washington, DC (1866)
James A. Garfield, US Senate, Washington, DC (1882) by Salviati and Burke
The mosaic portrait of Giuseppe Garibaldi (1883) is now in the Murano Museum of Glass.
The same location houses the portrait of Victor Emmanuell II, which was part of Salviati's exhibit at the 1867 Paris Expo and was modelled after an original painting by Giulio Carlini.
Another presidential portrait was created after Antonio Salviati's death for the St. Louis World's Fair.
Theodore Roosevelt, Corning Museum of Glass, New York (1904)
Elena of Montenegro (consort of Italy's Victor Emmanuel III), Corning Museum of Glass, New York (1900)
Jane Lathrop Stanford, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California (1900)
Sources:
United States Senate
Thomas Hawk's flickr Photostream
Chest of Books
Daily Violets: Mosaic Art
Corning Museum of Glass
Explorers Then and Now
Victoria and Albert Museum
Erwan 2949's flickr Photostream
Pat Anderson's flickr Photostream
Thatcher, John Boyd. Christopher Columbus: his life, his works his remains. III. New York: GP Putnam's Sons, 1904. 52.
Ponce de Leon, Nestor. The Columbus Gallery: The "discoverer of the new world" as represented in portraits, monuments, statues, medals and paintings. New York: N. Ponce de Leon, Publisher, 1893. 43.
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 127, 131.
Salviati, Antonio. Les manufactures Salviati & Cie à Venise et Murano. Mosaïques, verres Paris, 1867. 12.
V&A. Search the Collections. Item 261-1866.
Prince Albert, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (1864). In 1866, Queen Victoria gifted to the museum this Salviati mosaic medallion depicting the late Prince Consort Albert (item 261-1866). Made by artist Enrico Podio in Salviati's workshop in 1864, this piece is on display in room 131.
The city of Venice gifted two portraits to the City of Genoa shortly after the former joined the Kingdom of Italy.
Marco Polo, Municipal Palace of Genoa: Palazzo Grimaldi Doria-Tursi (1867)
Christopher Columbus, Municipal Palace of Genoa: Palazzo Grimaldi Doria-Tursi (1867)
Antonio Salviati personally gifted two presidential portraits to the United States Congress.
Abraham Lincoln, US Senate, Washington, DC (1866)
James A. Garfield, US Senate, Washington, DC (1882) by Salviati and Burke
The mosaic portrait of Giuseppe Garibaldi (1883) is now in the Murano Museum of Glass.
The same location houses the portrait of Victor Emmanuell II, which was part of Salviati's exhibit at the 1867 Paris Expo and was modelled after an original painting by Giulio Carlini.
Another presidential portrait was created after Antonio Salviati's death for the St. Louis World's Fair.
Theodore Roosevelt, Corning Museum of Glass, New York (1904)
Elena of Montenegro (consort of Italy's Victor Emmanuel III), Corning Museum of Glass, New York (1900)
Jane Lathrop Stanford, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California (1900)
Sources:
United States Senate
Thomas Hawk's flickr Photostream
Chest of Books
Daily Violets: Mosaic Art
Corning Museum of Glass
Explorers Then and Now
Victoria and Albert Museum
Erwan 2949's flickr Photostream
Pat Anderson's flickr Photostream
Thatcher, John Boyd. Christopher Columbus: his life, his works his remains. III. New York: GP Putnam's Sons, 1904. 52.
Ponce de Leon, Nestor. The Columbus Gallery: The "discoverer of the new world" as represented in portraits, monuments, statues, medals and paintings. New York: N. Ponce de Leon, Publisher, 1893. 43.
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 127, 131.
Salviati, Antonio. Les manufactures Salviati & Cie à Venise et Murano. Mosaïques, verres Paris, 1867. 12.
V&A. Search the Collections. Item 261-1866.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Church on the Heights, Brooklyn
Part of the Dutch Reformed Church, this building was located on the northwest corner of Pierrepont Street and Monroe Place. Salviati made a mosaic portrait of minister and hymn-writer George W. Bethune to be affixed to a Carrara marble memorial tablet to be installed in the church, which Bethune had been associated with.
The church was dedicated in 1851 and it was demolished sometime after 1922. Today, the location is home to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York and its adjacent parking lot.
Although Salviati's records from 1865 indicate the memorial was for a church in New York, Bethune's biography from 1867 lists the Third Reformed Dutch Church in Philadelphia as containing the mosaic tablet.
This church - located on the northeast corner of Tenth and Filbert Streets - was designed by Thomas Ustick Walter and built 1836-40.
In either case, the portrait now hangs in the New Brunswick Theological Seminary's Gardner A. Sage library.
Sources:
Salviati, Antonio. On Mosaics (generally). 1865. 50-51.
Mast, Gregg. In Remembrance and Hope: The Ministry and Vision of Howard G. Hageman. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1998. 4.
Van Nest, Rev. A.R. Memoir of Rev. Geo. W. Bethune. New York: Sheldon and Company, 1867. 421.
New York Historical Society Museum & Library
Google Maps
Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
The church was dedicated in 1851 and it was demolished sometime after 1922. Today, the location is home to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York and its adjacent parking lot.
Although Salviati's records from 1865 indicate the memorial was for a church in New York, Bethune's biography from 1867 lists the Third Reformed Dutch Church in Philadelphia as containing the mosaic tablet.
This church - located on the northeast corner of Tenth and Filbert Streets - was designed by Thomas Ustick Walter and built 1836-40.
In either case, the portrait now hangs in the New Brunswick Theological Seminary's Gardner A. Sage library.
Sources:
Salviati, Antonio. On Mosaics (generally). 1865. 50-51.
Mast, Gregg. In Remembrance and Hope: The Ministry and Vision of Howard G. Hageman. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1998. 4.
Van Nest, Rev. A.R. Memoir of Rev. Geo. W. Bethune. New York: Sheldon and Company, 1867. 421.
New York Historical Society Museum & Library
Google Maps
Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
All Saints' Church, Blackheath
Designed by Benjamin Ferry, this church was built 1857-67. A.W. Blomfield added the vestries in 1890 and the porch in 1899.
Salviati mosaics decorate the church's chancel, with small arcades containing six Apostles on each side.
Sources:
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors Club, 2008. 124.
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A Church Near You
Diocese of Southwark
Salviati mosaics decorate the church's chancel, with small arcades containing six Apostles on each side.
Sources:
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors Club, 2008. 124.
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A Church Near You
Diocese of Southwark
Location:
Blackheath, London, UK
Monday, October 14, 2013
Bonn Minster
Also known as St. Martin's Cathedral, this is one of Germany's oldest churches, dating back to before the 13th century.
Salviati made a total of 800 square feet of mosaics for the portal and apse of the cathedral in 1894, modeled after cartoons by Professor Martin and Friz Geiges.
Detail of the apse mosaic featuring Christ Enthroned, which is based on a depiction in Hagia Sophia and also reminiscent of the one in St. Mark's Basilica. The latter also served as the model for the portrait in St. Augustine's College, Canterbury.
Sources:
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 127.
Wikipedia
Sacred Destinations: Bonn Munster
Hans Weingartz on Wikimedia Commons
Erke's flickr Photostream
jaime.silva's flickr Photostream
Brian J. McMorrow on pBase
Salviati made a total of 800 square feet of mosaics for the portal and apse of the cathedral in 1894, modeled after cartoons by Professor Martin and Friz Geiges.
Mosaic tympanum of the Annunciation above the entry portal
Detail of the apse mosaic featuring Christ Enthroned, which is based on a depiction in Hagia Sophia and also reminiscent of the one in St. Mark's Basilica. The latter also served as the model for the portrait in St. Augustine's College, Canterbury.
Sources:
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 127.
Wikipedia
Sacred Destinations: Bonn Munster
Hans Weingartz on Wikimedia Commons
Erke's flickr Photostream
jaime.silva's flickr Photostream
Brian J. McMorrow on pBase
Friday, October 11, 2013
St. Andrew's Church, Biggleswade
This church contains some 13th and 14th century elements, but it has been remodeled and added to extensively over the centuries.
R.J. Withers designed the east-end stone reredos in 1877 and it was decorated with Venetian mosaics by Salviati in 1881.
Sources:
National Heritage
Rodney Burton on Wikimedia Commons
Derek Jones' flickr Photostream
Colin Hinson on Genuki
R.J. Withers designed the east-end stone reredos in 1877 and it was decorated with Venetian mosaics by Salviati in 1881.
Sources:
National Heritage
Rodney Burton on Wikimedia Commons
Derek Jones' flickr Photostream
Colin Hinson on Genuki
Thursday, October 10, 2013
St. Mary-Le-More, Wallingford
David Brandon rebuilt the 11th century church in 1854.
The marble reredos of 1879 is capped with a Salviati mosaic band.
Sources:
Pete Bromage's flickr Photostream
Wikipedia
English Heritage
Sue McArdle on British Listed Buildings
The marble reredos of 1879 is capped with a Salviati mosaic band.
Sources:
Pete Bromage's flickr Photostream
Wikipedia
English Heritage
Sue McArdle on British Listed Buildings
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