Cosmati: Vestito Garment

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Cosmati: Vestito Garment

Val Archer (born 1946)

Price

£5,500

Signed

Signed with initials

Medium

Oil on paper

Dimensions

40 ½ x 26 inches

Exhibited

Val Archer. 'Touching the Surface of Time', May 2011, No 45

Inspired by the work of the Roman Cosmati family, seven members of which, for four generations –1190 to 1235 – were skilful architects, sculptors and workers in decorative geometric mosaic, mostly for church floors. initial inspiration for the technique was Byzantine,

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