Mosaics

NOTES: The basilica was consacrated in 1094.

NOTES: The Papal basilica of St Paul outside the Walls, is one of four churches considered to be the great ancient basilicas of Rome. The cloister of the monastery was built between 1208 and 1241 by Pietro Vassalletto and was decorated by Giovanni Cosmati, the youngest of the Cosmati.

SOURCE: Matthew Digby Wyatt. Specimens of the geometrical mosaic of the Middle Ages (London, 1848), pl. 15

SOURCE: Owen Jones. Plans, elevations, sections, and details of the Alhambra (London, 1842-1845), vol. 1, pl. XL

SOURCE: Owen Jones. Plans, elevations, sections, and details of the Alhambra (London, 1842-1845), vol. 1, pl. XLII

SOURCE: Jules Bourgoin. Les arts arabes (Paris, 1873), pl. 43

SOURCE: Jules Bourgoin. Les arts arabes (Paris, 1873), pl. 53

SOURCE: Otto Wagner, Einige Skizzen, Projecte und ausgefuhrte Bauwerke (Vienna: Schroll, 1890-1922), Band 4, no. 37 NOTES: The mosaics around the doorway of Wagner's second house on Huttelbergstrasse were produced by the artist Leopold Forstner in the Weiner Mosaik Werkstatte. See RIBA81170 for a full page version of this image.

SOURCE: John Goldicutt. Specimens of ancient decorations from Pompeii (London, 1825), pl. 19

NOTES: This building was commissioned by Joseph Whitaker and Benjamin Ingham (English industrialists who had settled in Sicily in the early 19th century) and was designed by William Barber. The mosaics were executed by Salviati of Venice.