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    The Treasury of San Marco, Venice

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    The Treasury of San Marco, Venice

    The Treasury of San Marco, Venice
    Publisher: Olivetti | 1985 | ISBN: 0810916843 | English | PDF | 337 pages | 58.63 Mb

    The treasures contained in this book represent the stuff of legend and Hollywood movies. They are history and a great tribute to ancient craftsmanship. It is a wonder that these ancient treasures, including many from Byzantium, were so prefectly preserved to this day and not melted down by invaders.

    It becomes increasingly difficult to remember that the objects which march in stately procession through these pages were mostly looted from the Fourth Crusade's sacking of Constantinople in 1204. Venice has at least partly atoned by cherishing and preserving these remarkable things: hardstone carvings from the Classical Period, Byzantine enamels, Islamic glass, and filigree so well known that it was called ``Venetian work'' throughout Europe. The volume is companion to an international traveling exhibition but stands on its own; it contains, for example, an extensive essay on the Pala d'oro, major treasure of the collection, which did not leave San Marco. Essays and catalog are standard serious art historical description with magnificent footnotes. A beautiful book; a treasury indeed. GraceAnne A. DeCandido, "School Library Journal"
    Prefaces

    The Treasury of San Marco

    Venice and the treasury of San Marco
    Guido Perocco

    Venice, the Pala dOro, and Constantinople
    Sergio Bettini

    History of the treasury of San Marco
    Guido Perocco

    Catalogue

    Classical and Early Medieval

    Classical, Byzantine and Western hardstone-carving
    Daniel Alcouffe

    1. Glass situla with Dionysiac scene
    2. Rock-crystal lamp with marine life
    3. Rock-crystal lamp in the shape of a fish
    4. Sardonyx bowl with one handle
    5. Agate ewer with zoomorphic handle
    6. Marble ciborium with Greek inscription
    7. Throne-reliquary (the "Sedia di San Marco")

    Byzantine

    Byzantine enamels and goldsmith work
    Margaret E. Frazer

    Precious metalwork with enamel
    8. The "Grotto of the Virgin"
    9. Bookcover with Crucifixion and the Virgin orans
    10. Chalice of the emperor Romanos (with handles)
    11. Chalice of the emperor Romanos (without handles)
    12. Panel with half-figure of St. Michael
    13. Reliquary of the True Cross
    14. Bookcover with Christ and the Virgin orans
    15. Chalice with Eucharistic inscription
    16. Chalice of the Patriarchs
    17. Sardonyx chalice with figural enamel
    18. Alabaster paten with enamel of Christ
    19. Icon with full-length figure of St. Michael
    20. Bookcover with Crucifixion and Anastasis

    Precious metalwork without enamel
    21. Gilded and painted glass bowl
    22. Hexagonal rock-crystal vessel
    23. Chalice of Sisinnios
    24. Glass hanging-lamp
    25. Alabaster paten with invocation
    26. Glass bowl with honeycomb pattern
    27. Glass bowl (paten?) with handle
    28. Reliquary-casket of Trebizond

    Islamic

    Islamic hardstone-carving
    Daniel Alcouffe

    29. Turquoise glass bowl
    30. Rock-crystal dish
    31. Ewer of the caliph al-Azĩz-billãh
    32. Rock-crystal cruet

    Western

    Western metalwork
    William D. Wixom

    Venetian filigree
    Danielle Gaborit-Chopin

    33. Lamp of perfume-burner (the "Chiesola")
    34. Staurotheca of Henry of Flanders
    35. Sardonyx cruet
    36. Icon with lapis lazuli Crucifixion medallion
    37. Rock-crystal vessel
    38–39. Rock-crystal candlesticks
    40. Altar-frontal of St. Mark
    41. Reliquary of the arm of St. George
    42. Serpentine chalice
    43. Stone incense-boat
    44. Reliquary-casket of fourteen Eastern saints
    45. Rock-crystal bowl
    46. Reliquary of the Column of the Flagellation
    47. Pastoral staff

    Bibliography
    Glossary
    Concordance
    Index of principal names of persons and places
    Photographic acknowledgments


    The Treasury of San Marco, Venice