A Fragment of Cosmatesque Mosaic From Wimborne Minster, Dorset

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ID8890655
AuthorsLawrence B Rees (corresponding author), Lawrence Rees, Michael Lewis (0000-0002-7620-1891), Michael J T Lewis
Year2014
Volume94
Pages135-151
Publication date2014-04-23
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Antiquaries Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-5815 • E-ISSN: 1758-5309
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003581514000225
OpenAlexW2320367157
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited13

It has hitherto been supposed that, north of the Alps, the elaborate medieval mosaic work known as Cosmatesque was confined to Westminster Abbey. An example with glass tesserae, however, has now come to light from Wimborne Minster, Dorset. This paper explores the circumstances of the rediscovery there in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries of pieces of ‘rich mosaic’, describes the surviving fragment and compares it in style and function to counterparts in Rome and in the Confessor's Chapel at Westminster. It concludes that it dates, like those at Westminster, to the 1270s or 1280s. It suggests that it adorned the shrine of Wimborne's Saxon founder, St Cuthburga, and that the patron who commissioned it was most likely Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, lord of the nearby manor of Kingston Lacy and close associate of Edward i

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Chapel · Fragment (logic · Mosaic · Style (visual arts · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical and Architectural Studies · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History

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