In the US, please contact the author to arrange purchase of her indispensable new book, by emailing her at: JeanetteGabriel@aol.com
It is also now available worldwide via the London Bookseller: donkellybooks@btinternet.com
Micromosaics Private Collections
An essential new resource for dealers and
collectors
Jeanette Hanisee Gabriel has brought together a treasure trove
of micromosaics contributed by an international group of private collectors.
This scholarly and beautiful art book is illustrated with over two hundred and
fifty large, high-resolution color photos of micromosaics, most of them never
before published. The range of examples from jewelry to pictures to extravagant
tabletops will excite every level of collector. In addition, Sotheby’s has
generously allowed the author to reprint several essays she wrote for their most
important micromosaic sales, including a table which set a world auction record
in 2011, selling for almost two million dollars.
The Introduction paints a fascinating picture of the difficulties faced two centuries ago by travelers to Rome. Colorful stories relate how mosaics were acquired by early English, American, Continental and Russian collectors, from young aristocrats on the Grand Tour to powerful monarchs. The influence of Russians as patrons of mosaics is shown to be of particular significance. Historical accounts describe the Vatican Mosaic Workshop and the technique of making mosaics.
Resources previously unavailable have produced an encyclopedic wealth of new research on mosaic artists, making this an essential reference book for dealers and auction houses. An essay on Michelangelo Barberi reveals his long-term romance with a Russian princess. The complete designs from Barberi’s 1856 book are illustrated. Also included are a list of mosaics in the Hermitage and Demidoff collections. Biographies of the most important mosaicists enumerate their known mosaic works. More than two hundred sixty mosaic artists from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are documented. The author has made this book encyclopedic in scope to provide an essential reference for dealers and collectors.
The Introduction paints a fascinating picture of the difficulties faced two centuries ago by travelers to Rome. Colorful stories relate how mosaics were acquired by early English, American, Continental and Russian collectors, from young aristocrats on the Grand Tour to powerful monarchs. The influence of Russians as patrons of mosaics is shown to be of particular significance. Historical accounts describe the Vatican Mosaic Workshop and the technique of making mosaics.
Resources previously unavailable have produced an encyclopedic wealth of new research on mosaic artists, making this an essential reference book for dealers and auction houses. An essay on Michelangelo Barberi reveals his long-term romance with a Russian princess. The complete designs from Barberi’s 1856 book are illustrated. Also included are a list of mosaics in the Hermitage and Demidoff collections. Biographies of the most important mosaicists enumerate their known mosaic works. More than two hundred sixty mosaic artists from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are documented. The author has made this book encyclopedic in scope to provide an essential reference for dealers and collectors.
Cover Image: Micromosaic of Beatrice Cenci after the painting by Guido Reni