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Basilica of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, Rome: details of Cosmati work decoration on the episcopal throne
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NOTES: The Cosmati were a Roman family which included seven generations of architects, sculptors and workers in mosaic. Cosmatesque mosaic technique involved the elaborate inlaying of small triangles and rectangles of colored stones and glass mosaics into stone matrices or surfaces.
Design for the Chapel of St Andrew and the Saints of Scotland, Westminster Cathedral, London: elevation showing the proposed mosaic of St Andrew
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NOTES: The chapel was commissioned by the 3rd Marquess of Bute, but after his death in 1900 work on its decoration continued under the patronage of his son, the 4th Marquess.
Design for the Chapel of St Andrew and the Saints of Scotland, Westminster Cathedral, London: ironwork screen and wall decoration incorporating depictions of the cities of Constantinople, St Andrews and Milan
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NOTES: The chapel was commissioned by the 3rd Marquess of Bute, but after his death in 1900 work on its decoration continued under the patronage of his son, the 4th Marquess.
The Grove, Monken Hadley, Barnet, London: the bathroom in green mosaic
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NOTES: The Grove was originally an 18th century house rebuilt in the neo-Georgian style by Welch Cachemaille-Day & Lander in c.1930.
Getty Villa, J. Paul Getty Museum, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles
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NOTES: The original Villa was designed by Langdon Wilson Architects for the oil-magnate J. Paul Getty to house his private art collection adjacent to his home. This his second museum, a re-creation of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, opened as an art museum in 1974. The Villa was closed between 1997-2006 for restoration undertaken by Machado & Silvetti Associates with landscape architects Dennis L Kurutz Associates.
Monreale Cathedral, Sicily: studies of Cosmatesque mosaics from the apse, choir stalls, cloisters and bishop's throne
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NOTES: These studies are part of a volume of mosaic designs recorded by Matranga during the restoration of mosaics in churches in Italy and Scotland in around 1850.
Monreale Cathedral, Sicily: studies of Cosmatesque mosaics from the apse, cloister columns, choir stalls and aisles
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NOTES: These studies are part of a volume of mosaic designs recorded by Matranga during the restoration of mosaics in churches in Italy and Scotland in around 1850.
Monreale Cathedral, Sicily: studies of Cosmatesque mosaics from the apse, aisles, cloister columns and bishop's throne
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NOTES: These studies are part of a volume of mosaic designs recorded by Matranga during the restoration of mosaics in churches in Italy and Scotland in around 1850.