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Overview. The Mosaic ceiling of the Florence Baptistery is a set of mosaics covering the internal dome and apses of the Baptistery of Florence.It is one of the most important cycles of medieval Italian mosaics, created between 1225 and around 1330 using designs by major Florentine painters such as Cimabue, Coppo di Marcovaldo, Meliore and the Master of the Magdalen, probably by mosaicists from ...
The Baptistery is crowned by a magnificent mosaic ceiling in an Italo-Byzantine style, generally considered to have been completed between about 1240 and 1300, with numerous interruptions due to an unstable political situation. [73] The work consists of around ten million mosaic tesserae. Plan of the mosaic ceiling: 1. Last Judgement. 2.
The mosaic ceiling of the Baptistery San Giovanni in Florece in total view (Stitched from 20 images, exif from one image) Date: 2 September 2011, 13:43:28: Source: Own work: Author: User:MatthiasKabel, cropped by User:Sailko: Permission (Reusing this file) GFDL: Other versions: half size
Among the many 6th-century mosaics in the church complex (discovered after 1933) the most interesting one is located in the baptistery. The intact floor mosaic covers an area of 9 × 3 m and was laid down in 530. It depicts hunting and pastoral scenes with rich Middle Eastern flora and fauna.
The Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Museum of the Works of the Cathedral) in Florence, Italy is a museum containing many of the original works of art created for Florence Cathedral, [1] including the adjacent Florence Baptistery and Giotto's Campanile. Most of the exterior sculptures have been removed from these cathedral buildings, usually ...
Mosaic on the vault (Detail of the Hell Scene), Baptistery, Florence. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Coppo di Marcovaldo . Coppo di Marcovaldo (c. 1225 – c. 1276) [ 1 ] was a Florentine painter in the Italo-Byzantine style, active in the middle of the thirteenth century, whose fusion of both the Italian and Byzantine styles had great ...
Santa Trinita, c. 1290–1300, Santa Trinita, Florence, now Uffizi, Florence Mosaic ceiling at Florence Baptistery , c.1300 Mosaic of Christ enthroned with the Virgin and St John , Pisa Cathedral , 1301–1302
The baptistery was considered to be of the Lombard age because it was dedicated to the baptist. However, the existence of such decadence has been disputed, because in 366 Florence was the capital of a vast province and united Tuscany and Umbria, due to the administrative reform by Diocletian and, until 315, it has been the seat of a bishop.