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SALZENBERG, Wilhelm. Alt-Christliche Baudenkmale von Constantinopel vom V. bis XII. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Verlag von Ernst & Korn, 1854. Plate volume only, lacks text, 2° (642 x 485mm). Tinted lithographed frontispiece, chromolithographed title, 39 plates of which 13 are chromolithographs, 4 tinted lithographs and 22 engravings, additional lithograph of Saint Sophia bound in at end (long repaired tear to frontispiece, adhesive label on verso of title page). 20th-century half morocco preserving earlier cloth sides (extremities rubbed, paste-down torn with loss). Provenance: 'Presented to the Long Island Historical Society by Oscar E. Schmidt, New York 1882' (gilt lettering-piece on upper board) -- Denver Public Library (library stamps on title page and most plates).
'Salzenberg was a student of Karl Friedrich von Schinkel and practised as an architect at Berlin. In 1848 he travelled to Constantinople to take advantage of Fossati's restoration to the fabric of St. Sophia, in order to examine the building closely. Salzenberg spent five months in Constantinople and was able to make detailed drawings of mosaics in the church which had been brought to light during the works in progress. These mosaics were later covered over with plaster and by 1850 none were visible. Salzenberg's important work remains the major source of information about the mosaics of St. Sophia'. Blackmer 1483; Brunet V. 103.
'Salzenberg was a student of Karl Friedrich von Schinkel and practised as an architect at Berlin. In 1848 he travelled to Constantinople to take advantage of Fossati's restoration to the fabric of St. Sophia, in order to examine the building closely. Salzenberg spent five months in Constantinople and was able to make detailed drawings of mosaics in the church which had been brought to light during the works in progress. These mosaics were later covered over with plaster and by 1850 none were visible. Salzenberg's important work remains the major source of information about the mosaics of St. Sophia'. Blackmer 1483; Brunet V. 103.
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