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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.
Mosaic ceiling in the Baptistery of Florence, Lamech Kills Cain and Tubalcain, restored by Arturo Viligiardi (1906) Arturo Viligiardi (27 July 1869 - 21 October 1936) was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect and urban planner. His heirs still own several of his sketches, drawings and notes. [1]
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
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 ...
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.
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 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