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Mosaics in Roman Britain
Mosaics in Roman Britain
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Golwg ddarluniadol hardd ar hanes mosaics Rhufeinig ym Mhrydain, wedi'i ysgrifennu gan arbenigwr yn y maes. Trafodir datblygiad mosaics ym Mhrydain o ddyddiau'r goncwest hyd at ddiwedd y cyfnod Rhufeinig. Cynigir astudiaeth o agweddau technegol y gelfyddyd ynghyd â'r gwaith paratoi, a rhoddir sylw i fosaics mewn trefi ac mewn ardaloedd gwledig.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
A lavishly illustrated look at the history of Roman mosaics in Britain, from a renowned expert in the field. This book covers the development of mosaics in Britain from the invasion to the end of Roman Britain. The technical side of the art form is covered as well as prefabrication. It covers those mosaics based in towns as well as more rural locations.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9781445689883
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9781445689883
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Mosaics in Roman Britain
- Awdur / Author
- Beeson, Anthony
- Current Price ex VAT
- £15.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £15.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Available
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ar gael
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2022-05-03
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 96 pages
- Size
- 165 × 234 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Hanes, Hanes Lleol, Arferion Gwlad, Llên Gwerin (yn Saesneg) | EN: History, Welsh Life and Customs, Local History, Folk Tales (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Cyn 500 Oed Crist (yn Saesneg) | EN: Pre 500AD (in English)
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Anthony Beeson was born in 1948 into a well-established Brighton family. Having worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art Library, he moved to Bristol in 1972 to become Fine Art Librarian, and over the following thirty-seven years developed the Bristol Art Library into one of the finest British public collections of art books. He is an established author and lecturer having had ten volumes published on the history of Bristol, Brighton and Dorset as well as many articles on antiquities and art in academic journals. He is an acknowledged Classical iconographer and an expert on Roman and Greek art and architecture. He is the Hon Archivist of the Association for Roman Archaeology and a member of the Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics and has appeared on the television programme Time Team. In 2000 he reassembled the many hundreds of pieces of the ‘lost’ Newton St Loe Orpheus mosaic in the entrance hall of Bristol museum and in 2017 interpreted and produced the official report on the exceptional and internationally famous Roman mosaic of Pegasus and Bellerophon found at Boxford in Berkshire. He is a Trustee of the Roman Baths Foundation.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
Many of the mosaics have been lost but are recorded in coloured engravings. The author has a large collection of illustrations of both existing and lost mosaic pavements. The uniqueness of some British depictions of such well known characters as Orpheus are also explored here. Reconstructions by the author of some sections of figured mosaics based on examples found elsewhere in the empire are included. The author’s recent work on the newly discovered Boxford mosaic, that is the most important mosaic found in Britain for over 50 years, is explored here for the first time. Anthony Beeson is the former archivist of the Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics, a member of the board of trustees of the Association for Roman Archaeology and The Roman Baths Foundation, a prolific writer of papers on Roman art and architecture and has lectured on the subject of Roman mosaics.
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