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Like an ancient shrine : mid-19th century architectural theory, the memorial mosaics for Prince Albert and the Queen Victoria's position as female sovereign / Petra Schultheiss.
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Schultheiss, Petra, 1975-
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English
Published/Created
Hildesheim : Georg Olms Verlag, 2018.
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359 pages : 59 illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 22 cm
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Marquand Library - Remote Storage: Marquand Use Only
NA3840 .S3813 2018
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Mosaics
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England
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History
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19th century
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Royal Mausoleum (Frogmore House, England)
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Albert Memorial (London, England)
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Albert Memorial Chapel (Windsor Castle)
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Albert Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain 1819-1861
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Monuments
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Victoria Queen of Great Britain 1819-1901
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Series
Studien zur Kunstgeschichte ; Bd. 210.
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Studien zur Kunstgeschichte, 0175-9558 ; Band 210
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Summary note
When Prince Albert died in 1861 at the age of forty-two, his wife Queen Victoria followed this tragic event by an elaborate mourning period in which she surrounded herself as well as her people with memorials of the Prince Consort. Of these, the three most elaborate, the Albert Memorial Chapel, the Royal Mausoleum and the National Memorial to the Prince Consort, all included mosaic decoration.0In close connection to current architectural theories such as polychromy or the ideal of the complete decoration as well as the research and experimentation that was carried out with and about the medium mosaic, the memorial mosaics were planned and designed. The medium Queen Victoria chose for these monuments served to underline and strengthen the image of Prince Albert that she created and through this also helped to secure her own claim to power as female sovereign.0This book presents an overview of the history of mosaic in England up to the 1860s and a detailed description of the processes of planning and creating the mosaics. Queen Victoria?s memorial program as a whole will be described and compared to contemporary mourning rituals as well as British precedents for initiating similar cults.
Notes
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Basel, 2015.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-359).
Contents
Introduction and historical context
Mosaics in England before the Albert mosaics
The Albert Memorial Chapel
The Royal Mausoleum
The National Memorial to the Prince Consort
The mosaics, memoria and Queen Victoria.
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ISBN
9783487155401 ((hd. bd. : alk. paper))
3487155400 ((hd. bd. : alk. paper))
LCCN
2018394923
OCLC
1048875532
International Article Number
9783487155401
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