Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Glass mosaic tesserae from the 5th to 6th century baptistery of San Giovanni alle Fonti, Milan, Italy : analytical investigations / Elisabetta Neri, Marco Verità and Alberto Conventi --
Glass tesserae from the Petra Church / Fatma Marii --
Studies in Middle Byzantine glass mosaics from Amorium / Hanna Witte --
Mosaic tesserae from the Basilica of San Severo and glass production in Classe, Ravenna, Italy / Cesare Fiori --
The observation and conservation of mosaics in Ravenna in the 5th and 6th centuries / Cetty Muscolino --
A quest for wisdom : the 6th-century mosaics of Hagia Sophia and late antique aesthetics / Nadine Schibille --
Mosaics and materials : mosaics from the 5th and 6th centuries in Ravenna and Poreč / Claudia Tedeschi --
A study of glass tesserae from mosaics in the monasteries of Daphni and Hosios Loukas / Rossella Arletti --
Notes on the morphology of the gold glass tesserae from Daphni Monastery / Polytimi Loukopoulou and Antonia Moropoulou --
Glass producers in late antique and Byzantine texts and papyri / E. Marianne Stern --
On the manufacture of diatreta and cage cups from the Pharos beaker to the Lycurgus Cup / Rosemarie Lierke --
The Lycurgus Cup / Jaś Elsner --
Making late antique gold glass / Daniel Thomas Howells --
Gold glass in late antiquity : scientific analysis of the British Museum collection / Andrew Meek --
Late antique glass pendants in the British Museum / Chris Entwistle and Paul Corby Finney (with an appendix by Philip Fletcher) --
A scientific study of late antique glass pendants in the British Museum / Stefan Röhrs, Andrew Meek and Christ Entwistle --
The production and uses of glass in Byzantine Thessaloniki / Anastassios Antonaras --
"To beautify small things": minutiae and majesty in the mosaics of Parentium / Ann Terry --
Experiencing the light : Byzantine church window glass and the aesthetics of worship / Claire Nesbitt --
New light on the "Bright Ages": experiments with mosaics and light in medieval Rome / Claudia Bolgia --
The absence of glass : talking about the mosaics at Porta Panagia in Thessaly, Greece / Maria Vassilaki --
Borders of experimentalism : glass in the frame of the Genoa Mandylion / Francesca Dell'Acqua --
Viewing the mosaics of the monasteries of Hosios Loukas, Daphni and the Church of Santa Maria Assunta, Torcello / Robin Cormack --
The Abbot Philotheos, founder of the Katholikon of Hosios Loukas : old and new observations / Nano Chatzidakis --
Recording Byzantine mosaics in 19th-century Greece : the case of the Byzantine Research Fund (BRF) Archive / Dimitra Kotoula (with a contribution from Amalia G. Kakissis) --
The Christ head at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the apse in the Bode Museum, Berlin, and other fake mosaics / Irina Andreescu-Treadgold --
Alexandria on the Barada : the mosaics of the Great Mosque in Damascus / Judith S. McKenzie --
Mosaics by numbers : some preliminary evidence from the Leverhulme Database / Liz James, Emőke Soproni and Bente Bjørnholt --
Early Islamic and Byzantine silver stain / Lisa Pilosi and David Whitehouse --
Victorian and Justinianic? Painter of Practitioner? In situ or reverse? The mosaicing of Westminster Cathedral / Paul Bentley --
Glossary.