Showing posts with label Lunette. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lunette. Show all posts

Friday, November 27, 2015

Fabrica de Calzado Excelsior, Mexico

The Excelsior Shoe Factory was located on the present corner of Benjamin Franklin and Carlos B. Zetina Streets (named after the man who founded Excelsior in 1902 who later became a senator, as well as presidential candidate) in the Tacubaya district of Mexico City.


Salviati made a mosaic in the crescent over the entryway representing Labor.


Today, the Universidad La Salle stands in the location.

Sources:
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 139.
Taringa! 
El Modo Museo 
Bulletin of the Pan American Union. vol LVI, 1923. 344.

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

Thursday, May 23, 2013

St. Luke's Church Battersea

Architect Frederick William Hunt designed this church, which was built 1882-93.


The choir contains a Salviati mosaic of the winged bull of St. Luke above the north door to the vestry. It was added in 1891 and modeled after the circular window in St. Mary's Battersea.


Sources:
St. Luke's Church
English Heritage. Chapter 3: Churches and Chapels. Draft.
Scott Shaw's A View from Tokyo blog.

Monday, April 15, 2013

Powerscourt House

This 13th century Irish castle was redesigned 1731-41 by Richard Cassels. Today, it contains among other retail establishments and entertainment venues, a Ritz-Carlton hotel.


A mosaic lunette by Salviati commissioned by the Viscount Powerscourt can be seen above the doorway in this circa 1890 photograph of the saloon. It seems to depict a young child or perhaps a cherub.


The saloon, pictured here in another view circa 1865-1914, was located above the main entrance hall and measured sixty by forty feet. It was famously used to host King George IV in 1821.


Unfortunately, the house was gutted by a fire in November of 1974 and the minimal restoration of 1996 did not extend to the mosaic, nor the paintings in the niches above.


However, Stanley Kubrick's 1975 film Barry Lyndon used Powercourt's saloon as a substitute for interior shots of a German Baroque palace just a few months before the fire and therefore serves as a record of the lost interiors.


The 1955 movie Captain Lightfoot with Rock Hudson also features the salon before it was destroyed, including one scene of a grand ball.


Today, the saloon is known as the ballroom and is used as an event and wedding venue.


Sources:
Barr, Sheldon. Venetian Glass Mosaics: 1860-1917. London: Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. 126.
Wikipedia: Powerscourt
Wikipedia: Barry Lyndon
Powerscourt House and Gardens
National Library of Ireland
Corbis
RWDP
dezgeist
MajorCalloway's flickr Photostream
Larry McMahon Photography